When I’m saying no money I mean absolute poverty. You can be a refugee, you can be an illegal inmigrant, and you’ll be taken care of in Canada.

The same is obviously not true in Thailand and most of SE Asia. You have to pay your way for everything in these places, thus stimulating the economy. If you come to Canada and buy a home, buy groceries, and abuse the fuck out of our social services and healthcare, you are a net loss to our society.

Really nice places are still 1 mill USD+ there for gated communities etc.

It's not true here, have you ever tried to live on no income in Canada? Or talked to anyone who has?

It's beyond brutal. Absolutely not the case that you're taken care of here.

No but they get the special immigrant welfare! The ones the Canadian veterans specifically aren't allowed to have.

lol bra.. you ain’t read those articles about refugees taking up DTES shelters?

It’s very much a thing.

? If they needed to use a shelter that means they're desperate and not being taken care of... what's your point besides agreeing haha

That in most of the world, you wouldn’t get that.

A person living on the streets in Thailand would come here and be housed and taken care of. A person living in a shelter being subsidized by the govt. here moving to Thailand would be on the street.

My point was, everything you can come here and get for free, whether you’re flat broke or have a suitcase full of millions of dollars, you can come to Canada and get socialized healthcare, housing, etc. where on the flip side, going to a Thailand etc. you have to pay for all of that, especially as a foreigner. Therefor, you aren’t the total leach you are here when you go there and actually stimulate the economy.

Dude you're out to lunch.

How's someone on the streets of Thailand going to come here? On what grounds? On what visa? On what passport?

It costs like $10k+ or marrying someone from here and even then takes a year+ to get approved.

This example is stupid. Why do you think coming here is so easy? It's not. Otherwise half the Philippines would empty into this country literally overnight if what you're saying is true.

You gotta stop listening to PP's redonk speeches or watching looney tune YouTube videos.

TOURISM stimulates Thailand's economy, not a bunch of burnt out divorced white guys who can't hack it here. Not meaning any insult to people's dad's here with that generalization, but by and large THAT is who is going to Thailand. And Vietnam. And Philippines.

If someone like Mike's dad goes there to have a lovely retirement, more power to him that's living his dream for some nice weather and good food and I'm sure he's a model citizen while there... but the only dudes I have ever seen going to live there in my age group are oil riggers or US army guys who got in legal trouble at home or lost all their money to substance abuse and went there because they're less of a loser there just being a foreigner than they are at home and can still get pussy every weekend if they want it on the pretense of support and or possible future citizenship.

I stayed in Richmond recently and half the hotel wings in the hotel were reserved for refugees. A server at a separate hotel confirmed it was happening at their hotel too.

That’s why they are begging the province for funding because shelters are overflowing.

Re: 68’s point, 100 million dollars spent in a single year housing migrants from about as far as you can get from Canada, in ONE LOCATION..

https://globalnews.ca/news/10384149/...tel-costs/amp/

I’d say if you can get to Canada from Turkey, you can probably get here from anywhere.

This isn't the same thing, this is asylum seekers and refugee claimants undergoing processing and is being clamped down on in concert with the USA.

These people are not legally entering Canada.

I met this guy when he was running for city council. A week or 2 back he messages me asking if I want to join the con party. He is thinking about running for the cons in the next election in Nanaimo. That's his reply to a post. Sounds more like a commie then a con to me.

Viraat is his name.

https://i.ibb.co/3FcLhDF/Screenshot-...-26-164854.png

I would rather spend 100 mill on migrants who want to work then crack heads who spend all night stealing so they can get enough money to get high. We have a low barrier housing building a few minutes from my house and you can see them with sopping carts at night.

^gotta love Nanaimo ! Where r8s and crack heads are minutes apart

lol Vancouver invented that trend. We just have a way higher ratio of R8s to crackheads.

Here we go ...protests everywhere regarding carbon tax increase. Truck convoy 2.0.

I gassed up yesterday thinking I’ll save 3 cents/L due to the tax coming in to effect today :lol


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the carbon tax can't win.. the conservatives have already succeeded in making it the biggest election issue and there's nothing the liberals can do but to watch it all get undone once they lose the election. the rebates only apply to those who make a hair over minimum wage, and the revenue collected doesn't even go into carbon initiatives, it just goes into general revenue. they can't even spin it in any way to make it popular, it's done unless the liberals pull off a miracle election win.

Who are people going to blame when the carbon tax is gone and gas is 2.25/L next year when the cons are in?

88 cents or more of our gas prices are tax. The govt.has every ability to lower the prices

Put more money in my pocket and you get my vote.

The money will go to a different pocket, but I assure you it won't be yours.
Are you on that trickle down economics shit? lol.

Nope but I feel like if we can give Ukraine and Haiti money we should be able to keep the ER in prince rupert open? Money can stay in Canada just a lil bit

Money just given away on the liberals virtue signaling campaign continues to turn this country to shit.

Why would gas companies pass the savings on to you? They would just pocket the difference. If we got rid of the carbon tax today the price of fuel would be still more than it was a month ago.