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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (16 children)

Except, Ukraine legitimately did get an unusually generous special program for visas, and Palestinians have to prove they have family financial support, which has never been required of anyone else.

Cool Shariah-baiting in the last paragraph. You make the tabloids proud.

[–] wampus@lemmy.ca -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

dur dur, let's ignore the regional government comments, and the differences in how easy it is to sort out the logistics, to continue the narrative that Canada racist! Canada brought in tons of immigrants recently and fucked up the economy for everyone, health care system straining, and infrastructure unable to keep up with influx of people unable to contribute meaningfully to the economy for decades to come... causing them to pivot focus onto the internal struggles and trade wars that are ongoing, and the need to build up internal resiliency... but that's not a factor! They're just racists!!

And it's not tabloid shit. Here in Vancouver, we've literally had recent immigrants rape/murder kids in Central Park in the recent past. Guess which area of the world the perp was from. Like we have Chinese nationals literally going to our courts, openly admitting to all the fraud involved with their immigration paths because "that's how its done in Canada", and yet it's racist to call it out. We literally had a Cullen Inquiry into all the money laundering, and one of its findings was that the people in charge of 'oversight' had been guilted into letting things slide after being accused of being racists.

So fuck any call about racism, or any attempt to use the racism card to get preferential treatment, when you're intentionally ignoring the realistic conditions that make this case totally fucking different. Go eat a bag of multi-colored ethnically diverse dicks.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Well, making the educated guess that you're not Native, there definitely is at least one immigrant who's regressive.

I'm old enough to remember things were also shit before the big Trudeau immigration surge. And actually worse in several ways.

[–] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The food definitely improved. Calgary in the 60s had the most boring food imaginable. Pizza was considered foreign and exotic. Then people moved in from all over the world to work in the oil patch in the 70s and suddenly dining out became an adventure in new cuisines.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Haha, the last generation of my family has stories about discovering pizza, and the generation before that being horrified by the strangeness of it.

Chinese food was old and established, though. It was cracked to stick around after the rail work, but thanks, guys.

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