JD Vance blames immigration for Canada's 'stagnating' living standards

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all the “foreign-born” people living here.

“While I'm sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don't need a melting pot, we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada,” he said.

…“With all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame,” he said. “The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.”

The posting includes a chart from IceCap Asset Management in Halifax that shows the growth in living standards of Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. from the beginning of 2016 to the present.

One of Ice Cap Asset Management’s financial analysts, Richard Dias, added a one-word comment to the post saying that he “agreed.”

The chart shows the change in the GDP per person in each country, though the standard of living is generally tracked using a wider range of data.

The UN's Human Development Index uses a number of metrics that quantify what it means to live a long and healthy life, be knowledgeable and enjoy a decent standard of living. The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study also uses several metrics including outcomes in health, education, economic activities and access to housing.

The government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau had begun cutting immigration after it rapidly increased during the post-pandemic labour shortage.

Just don’t let me not be able to journey here and catch some fish:

Lake Athabasca

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Coordinates: 59°16′00″N 109°27′00″W[2]
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Lake Athabasca

Ice breakup on Lake Athabasca (June 9, 2002)[1]
Lake Athabasca is located in SaskatchewanLake AthabascaLake Athabasca
Location in Saskatchewan
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Location
Northern Saskatchewan Administration District, Saskatchewan
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta
Coordinates 59°16′00″N 109°27′00″W[2]
Lake type Glacial
Part of Mackenzie River drainage basin
Primary inflows
Athabasca RiverWilliam RiverMacFarlane RiverColin RiverFond du Lac River
Primary outflows Rivière des Rochers, which meets with the Peace to form the Slave
Catchment area 271,000 km2 (105,000 sq mi)[3]
Basin countries Canada
Max. length 283 km (176 mi)
Max. width 50 km (31 mi)
Surface area 7,849 km2 (3,031 sq mi)[4]
Average depth 20 m (66 ft)[5]
Max. depth 124 m (407 ft)[5]
Water volume 204 km3 (49 cu mi)
Shore length1 ≈2,140 km (1,330 mi)[5]
Surface elevation 213 m (699 ft)[4]
Settlements
Fort ChipewyanUranium CityCamsell PortageFond du Lac
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.
Lake Athabasca (/ˌæθəˈbæskə/ ATH-ə-BASK-ə; French: lac Athabasca; from Woods Cree: ᐊᖬᐸᐢᑳᐤ[6] aðapaskāw, “[where] there are plants one after another”)[7] is in the north-west corner of Saskatchewan and the north-east corner of Alberta between 58° and 60° N in Canada. The lake is about 26% in Alberta and 74% in Saskatchewan.[8][9]

The lake is fed by the Athabasca River and other rivers, and its water flows northward via the Slave River to the Mackenzie River system, eventually reaching the Arctic Ocean.

He is correct. When you have a set level of goods and more consumers you have to run harder just to stay in place.

Normally this levels it's self out rather quickly because you now have more people in the workforce producing goods and services.

In this case you do not.

You have more people taking from charity (government or private) and the same number of people working.

This results in the price of basic goods and services rising to a level that the people on the lower end of society not being able to afford unless they take charity as well.

Taking charity erodes your soul, it is bitter bread. But living on the streets is not an option. So you apply and you run into the other problem. There is a limit. Since you are a native you are not high on the list of people to be helped. So you not only had to humble yourself to ask for help but you have been denied in favor of the new people who have contributed NOTHING to the system.

This does not end well.

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