Immigrants Need More Financial Support, Study Says

[CDNBear]

When Jenny tries that, I tell her to "go for it". Call her bluff.

If the double duty involved real work, I might have...;-)

 

[Nuggler]

They should go home, get more money for "financial support", and then come back.................................or not.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

There are changes that have to be made which is where the immigrant will spend the money. The monthly cheque has to be replaced by a refillable debit card that only the person can use and has to refill by an ATM machine that has a camera.

The money can only be used for food, shelter and medical care.

Any money the immigrant gets from the government will be redistributed back into the economy, to the grocer, and the landlord and the drugstores on a government approved list and if the immigrant wants more then that person has to get a job sooner

Back in the old days immigrants never got any money from the government because in those days there was a lot more opportunities in a growing economy then there are now where the jobless rates are on the rise because the citizens don’t want to downsize and get entry level jobs that pay less.

New immigration supplies workers for restaurants, hotels, and agriculture, and healthcare with cheap labour as in cleaners, kitchen help and farm hands healthcare helpers in the greying market

The government has always had programs that attracted people to this country like the homesteading program that was a free piece of land that a person would get in some out of the rural area where you had to make major improvements to your land for a number of years before the land title is transferred to you.

So the government is doing what it has always been doing since the pilgrims came to the new land

I may be a fact Canada needs more people, but they keep going to the big city, which really nullifies your argument if you mean we
need to fill the wide open spaces, which are actually too vast to be filled up anyway. It's a romantic idea.

There wasn't much govt "here" when the Pilgrims came in the early 17th century.

New immigrants really shouln't any money at all as the economy is far larger and complex than it was 30-60 years ago. Immigrants should come here with the idea they have a job waiting, and their own savings to tide them over for a while-it's called planning. But immigrants most of them are relatives of primary job seeking economic immigrants, so they need considerable govt support to survive. It needlessly expands the role of the state and has brought in millions of unqualified Asians and Africans who have trouble adjusting to Canadian culture. Multiculturalism has allowed them to retain their culture and resist assimilating, which costs taxpayers millions and billions of dollars.

 

[petros]

If the Canadian Govt handed money over to CPR to give credit to homesteaders, how is that not funding immigration from the top down?

Anyone? Everyone else is not worth investing in? Everybody else got a break in the history of Canada. Why end a tradition this old? Why else would anyone come here?

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

The prof is creating another political argument in favour of immigration, that of future economic benefits for letting in grandparents. But she's not an economist, but a lawyer. She is ignoring the present and past as the incomes of immigrants over the past 20 years is stagnant or sagging. The future benefit is dubious as the current immigration system is a drain on taxpayers right now. There is no economic argument for immigration at this time.


While 150,000-plus wait, few parents and grandparents are accepted | Embassy - Canada's Foreign Policy Newspaper

Queen's University law faculty associate dean Sharryn Aiken said the assumption that family-class immigrants don't benefit Canada economically is flawed because it uses a short-term time horizon. In the long term, she said, "They are contributing to the success of that family's settlement and integration, for the family that's here already."