[diego_moita]

> Canada's immigration is already quite lop-sided.

I don't even understand what "lop-sided" means here.

Would you say that Canada's oil and softwood businesses are lop-sided because we produce and export a lot of it? Or that the groceries' market is lop-sided because we don't produce a lot of it and therefore have to import?

Canada is an importer of people (not only from India) because it can't produce a lot of people. It is not different from groceries.

[breitling]

Why not import from a variety of countries to preserve the social fabric? https://preview.redd.it/in-the-first-three-months-of-2025-ca...

[triceratops]

Is India lacking in variety? It has more languages than Europe.

Variety isn't a bad idea in and of itself. But you're making the mistake of assuming all the people who live inside a particular nation's boundaries are the same.

[theflyinghorse]

India as a whole is diverse. Canada is NOT getting immigrants from all of India but rather from 2 states (mostly one). Please learn about the issue first.

[poncho_romero]

The majority of Indian immigrants to Canada are coming from one state, Punjab, so the benefits of diversity within India is not necessarily reflected in the Indians coming to Canada.

[triceratops]

Source?

[ryandrake]

What does "preserve the social fabric" mean?

[poncho_romero]

Because there are so many Indians around, newly arrived Indians tend to spend most of their time with other Indians, and as a result don't integrate with the rest of society as much as previously waves of immigrants did. Canada is a cultural mosaic, but a certain degree of intermixing and assimilation is necessary, in my opinion, to preserve social and national bonds.

[debo_]

It's what the Irish said to us Italians when we were immigrating to Canada in droves.

[poncho_romero]

It's a much larger drove this time around, to be fair.

[jacquesm]

It's a dog whistle for 'keeping Canada white'. There are a lot of racists in Canada.

[remarkEon]

This doesn’t work anymore.

[poncho_romero]

Canada is one of the least racist countries in the world. Please travel.

[api]

Honestly so is the USA. Yes there is racism, more than I used to think, but it’s below average.

Not being racist is really a pretty modern idea that didn’t become popular anywhere until the last 50 years. For most of human history it was conventional wisdom that (whatever I am) is the obviously superior form of human. Statistically this is probably still what most living people think.

I mean of course whatever you are is the master race. Isn’t it obvious?

[jacquesm]

I've lived there. Bullshit.

[poncho_romero]

What countries would you consider to not be racist? Canada is a functional pluralistic society. Yes there are racists here, but far fewer than elsewhere in my view.

[FiniteField]

>I don't even understand [...]

>It is not different from groceries.

Do you appreciate that, in the wider historical context, this position is an exceptionally radical one? You seem to not understand how there could even exist a difference of opinion on this, but I'm confident that this outlook of humans as being completely fungible, transactional economic units would appear unthinkable to anyone throughout 99% of human history. Just the suggestion that a nation's population should be restocked by swapping it out with another nation's population would be tantamount to treason any time prior to the revolution of the 1960s.

[modo_mario]

>because it can't produce a lot of people.

So does every country that can't grow it's population indefinitely need to import a ton of people? What is the endgame there?

And I thought trade in people as some kind of fungible economic token was out of vogue.

[franktankbank]

Is it typical to consider immigration as a trade similar to apples and oranges?

[Am4TIfIsER0ppos]

To politicians and economists humans are fungible.