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In a recent speech to the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, Canada's Minister of Immigration John McCallum boasted about the economic effects of immigration. Once again, he showed that he does not know what he is talking about.
His government has recently raised Canada's immigration intake to over 300,000 for 2016. This intake is the highest in 100 years. Now, he is proclaiming that his government will raise immigration to even higher levels in the years following — all supposedly to stimulate Canada's economy.
Immigration Does Not Produce Economic Benefits
Let's point out some basics for Mr. McCallum: In the late 1980s, Ottawa asked The Economic Council of Canada to investigate whether immigration had produced economic benefits for Canada. Their answer: almost none for every decade since 1867. In other words, if government wants to stimulate the economy, immigration has not done it in the past and is unlikely to do it in future.
Even worse, according to a recent study done by SFU Economics Professor Emeritus Herb Grubel and Veteran Economist Patrick Grady, recent immigrants are annually taking up to $35 Billion more out of government coffers than they are contributing.
On top of that, two UBC professors have just released studies which demonstrate that Canada's relentless immigration intake is the cause of astronomic house prices in Metro Vancouver in particular, but also in Toronto — the two major destinations of immigrants. Speculation by Chinese buyers has literally driven many Vancouverites out of Metro Vancouver. Does McCallum consider displacement "an economic benefit"? ...
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/03/immigration-minister-know-nothing-speaks.html
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