Wouldn’t they benefit from more people? Of course it would come with the condition of learning the language at an acceptable level and that being tied to residency.

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Add Canada to that list. 1 million immigrants a year and everything is collapsing - our housing, healthcare, education, nothing can keep up.

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Odd I was in B.C. about a month ago. Seemed like civilization was still operating there.

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proof you weren’t: BC has had a huge homeless problem for decades that is only getting worse.

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I’d argue that homeless are a symptom and lack of housing is the problem.

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Unless you live there, your visit to BC likely did not involve needing to use any of those systems or services. You saw the country through tourist eyes.

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Clearly. They must have hid the Mad Max dystopia from me. Excellent job. I am walking around Victoria thinking it’s a cute mini-Seattle and really they started BBQing humans babies for food when I turned around.

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