As a canadian, our country brought in over 1 million imigrants in a year, but we didn’t really do anything to prepare the country for them. We didn’t ensure enough housing would be built to support them, we didn’t build any transit for people to get around cheaply, and we allow private schools to profit off selling them a sub-par education under false pretense.

The mass immigration has helped reveal some of the issues our country already had. Housing was already an issue before, now its even worse. The problem is many people didn’t see these problems building up and now blame the immigrants as the source of the housing crisis and employment issues.

I think it has potential to turn into a racially driven culture war and a significant amount of that sentiment could have been avoided if Canada was more thoughtful and planned the whole process better. I’ve got no problem with immigrants moving to Canada, but I want a country that can actually support them and give them the quality of life that was sold to them. Many immigrants feel lied to about the state of their schooling and the cost of living in Canada.