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by iridium_core 1990 days ago
Its sustainable politically if you call anyone who opposes the scheme racist - only a single country in the top 10 migrant contributors to Canada is of European heritage:

https://www.cicnews.com/2020/02/a-quarter-of-canadas-immigra...

This is already causing long-term social problems, like sex-selective abortion which is prevalent in Indian communities in Canada even after multiple generations:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S170121631...

If the USA is restricting immigration, and Canada is not, this is just another driver for the top talent to flee Canada to the USA.

Canada might succeed in becoming a dumping-ground of migrants, a country of cheap back-office labour and expensive housing, but that sounds like a terrible place to live or develop any cutting-edge technology.