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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Canadian Convulsions > Canada's culturally suicidal immigration/asylum policies

 

A graph like the one below can only be made through deliberate policies. Stupid policies, but deliberate. This is why we have a housing crisis in Canada among many other various and sundry crises.


Forwarded from Elon Musk...

What will 4 more years of Kamala look like? Let's ask Canada. At Trudeau's Nov 2015 election, Foreign NPRs made up:
- 2.1% of Canada (750,000 NPRs)
Upon reelection in Sept 2021:
- 3.4% of Canada (1,305,000)
Today, 3 years post-reelection?
- 7.3% of Canada (3,002,000)

33% of Canada's total population is foreign born now, including other immigration statuses -- this was under 24% when Trudeau took office. With this, Canadians are increasingly suffering the economic decline & social upheaval that historically came with enemy occupation after losing a shooting war. Will Canada survive its 8+ years of Kamala-Trudeau immigration policy? Perhaps as a loosely affiliated economic zone. Can the USA survive 8 years of Kamala-Trudeau immigration policy? Just look North.

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Monday, June 17, 2024

Islamization of America > Packing Muslim migrants into Cincinnati

 

Ohio: Muslim migrants invite more migrants

to Cincinnati, 50 live in one house

Opposing the swarm of illegals into Western countries is a duty of citizens who care about the future of their countries, yet globalist governments are encouraging the migration. The case below of Oumar Ball, a Mauritania man — an 86.3% Muslim country — who is facilitating “the flood of illegals” into Cincinnati is just one such case. Chances are that there are many such similar cases, even outside of Cincinnati.


Despite Oumar Ball’s actions, even he says “the federal government is just letting too many people come to the U.S. all at once.” It’s an obvious statement that anyone should be able to see. Everyone should also be able to understand that consequences will be seen and felt down the road. Leftists continue to push open-door immigration policies. Note how the article below starts: “The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses.”

What is there to celebrate? Helping people is one thing, but not at the expense of others. Many Americans are cash strapped as it is. Yet the Associated Press reported last year that thousands more Mauritanians were “making their way to the US, thanks to a route spread on social media,” through Nicaragua. And who is paying their bill? Mostly American taxpayers:

A lot of the money comes from the American taxpayer.

At every stage of a migrant’s journey, U.S. tax money smooths the way for people planning to enter and live in the United States illegally.

Start with the United Nations. The United States gave all the U.N. agencies $18 billion in 2022, representing about one-third of the total budget. The U.N. does many different things with that money, but one thing is to help wannabe border-jumpers actually make it to the border.

At a recent press conference, the Leftist Ohio Immigrant Alliance called on members of Congress to bring deported family members “back home to the United States,” despite the fact that the US is not their “home.” Among the attendees advocating for the return of deported family members is a woman named Wafaa Hamdi, who addressed  the crowd. Her sister, Tina Hamdi, was deported in 2017 to Morocco “after serving a drug-related sentence.” Such immigrants believe that it is their right to live in America, not a privilege.

According to the Heritage Foundation, “the Biden Administration wants even more money to distribute illegal aliens throughout the United States.”

If Western citizens want their countries to turn into the very horror that illegals are running from, that is exactly what is slowly happening as they keep supporting globalist regimes.

Migrants Invite More Migrants to Cincinnati: 

50 People in One House

by Warner Todd Huston, Breitbart, June 11, 2024:

The Washington Post is celebrating a man from the African country of Mauritania who is helping more poor Muslim migrants crowd into Cincinnati apartments and houses, straining the town’s resources and apparently breaking occupancy laws.

Even this man, who is working to facilitate the flood of illegals into the U.S., says that the federal government is just letting too many people come to the U.S. all at once.

Oumar Ball, a man native to the small majority Muslim West African country of Mauritania, arrived in Cincinnati in 2000. By 2010, he had become a U.S. citizen. Now, he is working to settle as many of his fellow Muslims in Cincinnati’s Mount Airy neighborhood as he can. However, he has often encountered a problem in the Queen City: housing.

The city does not have a shelter system, and there is no “right to shelter” like there is in Massachusetts and New York. So, Ball has struggled to find places for his migrant friends to stay. The housing issue has caused him to stockpile them illegally in tiny apartments and homes of volunteers, including his own.

“It’s not uncommon to find apartments with 10 or 14 people in a two-bedroom apartment,” said fellow Cincinnati Mauritania activist Ousmane Sow. “And it’s all because none of us want to see Mauritanians out in the streets.”

The problem is growing, too. Doug Wehmeyer, the administrator and fire chief in Lockland, says that the number of migrants from Mauritania has doubled to 3,000….





Thursday, August 18, 2022

Canadian Convulsions > Canada's "Worst in the World" Rankings; From 5th to 15th Happiest Country - Thanks Justin

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'Worst in the world': Here are all the rankings in which

Canada is now last


Most unaffordable housing, highest cellphone bills, and worst rate of acute care beds, to name a few


Author of the article:Tristin Hopper
Publishing date:Aug 11, 2022  •  21 hours ago  •  5 minute read  •
The National Post

Canada has the most unaffordable housing in the OECD. PHOTO BY JAMES MACDONALD/BLOOMBERG

If you spend any time on social media, it’s likely that you’ve seen this graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international indices which feature Canada near the top spot. “Canada is broken? I don’t think so. Neither does the world,” reads a caption.



Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract indices such as “quality of life” and “peace,” there are plenty of far more empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the developed world.

There’s plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.

We have the most unaffordable housing in the OECD


The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a club of the world’s 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.




We have the world’s most expensive wireless costs


Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world’s most expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again dominated. Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive place in the world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the average Canadian the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone plan with at least 100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that kind of cell phone plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.



We have the lowest rate of acute care beds among peer countries


Canada’s health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times. Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A ranking by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as to why. When ranked against peer countries, Canada’s rate of per-capita acute care beds was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care beds for every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.


Two of the planet’s “bubbliest” real estate markets are in Canada


For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with “bubbly” real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth. Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in the top ten.



We racked up COVID debt faster than anyone else


The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt in the history of human civilization. So it’s rather remarkable that amidst this international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone else. Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country’s rate of public and private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP. While a handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the pandemic with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it came to how quickly that debt had been accumulated.


Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of Vancouver Tuesday, June 21, 2022.
PHOTO BY (PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE/ PNG)


The Port of Vancouver is (almost) the most inefficient in the world


Last year — just as the global supply chain crisis got going — the World Bank decided to rank the performance of the world’s 370 major ports. Authors weighed factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it’s not like our other ports are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north to Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.




Toronto Pearson is the world’s most-delayed airport


Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last month, CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports were seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was Toronto Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed. Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the world.


We’re one of the world’s worst economies for foreign investment


A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period; Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business Council of Canada noticed the same trend. “Canada is the second-worst in the OECD on openness to foreign direct investment,” it concluded.




We drive the most fuel-inefficient vehicles in the world


In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the world’s private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse, cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of other countries where that was similarly the case.

I have to challenge that last sentence as I doubt there is any country, other than Russia, that can compare in size, sparseness, and coldness. Nevertheless, we do love our SUVs and half-tons.





On a list of the world’s happiest countries, Canada falls to a new low


France reached its highest ranking to date, at 20th, while Canada slipped to its lowest ranking ever, at 15th, just behind Germany at 14th and followed closely by the United States and the United Kingdom at 16th and 17th.


By Rebel News |
August 15, 2022 

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This popped up on my Twitter feed today:


Well, normally Canada does pretty well on lists like this — pseudo scientific lists that are really just PR agencies, promoting some globalist/socialist scheme.

But I had never heard of the World Happiness Report. And frankly, I’m even more skeptical of it than the UN’s Human Development Index. How do you measure happiness?

But there are some ways; I guess one way to start is simply by asking people. And to try to show some attempt at standardization; you know, in science, one of the tests of an experiment is: is it replicable? If you do the test again will it yield the same results? That’s an attempt to bring rigor to social sciences. It’s a bit of art.

But with that disclaimer, look at this.

Turns out, this World Happiness Report is a UN project too — but it also has private companies and private donors, and a lot of participation from Canada as a matter of fact. Canadian universities, a Canadian government grant, of course.

So how is Canada doing? Let me tell you:

France reached its highest ranking to date, at 20th, while Canada slipped to its lowest ranking ever, at 15th, just behind Germany at 14th and followed closely by the United States and the United Kingdom at 16th and 17th.

Ten years ago, Canada was ranked fifth. Fifth! How could that be! Under the evil Stephen Harper!

From fifth place to fifteenth! You’d think that would be on the news. Oh, it would be if Harper were presiding over our unhappiness. No surprise the news is buried with Trudeau.

Don’t get me wrong. We’re still better than many third world countries. At least until Trudeau goes full Castro and censors the internet and seizes your bank account, shuts down farms and farmers, and brings in mandatory digital ID surveillance. That really is a Cuban level of misery.

Look at Canada — 35 days of anxiety — more than any other! And look at sorrow — Only the UK and New Zealand were worse.

That’s not a virus. That’s the lockdown. That’s fear mongering. That’s Trudeau and Theresa Tam — and the media party, and the rest of the establishment.

Trudeau made us sad, and anxious. He made us depressed; he demoralized us. He made us miserable.

Don’t take it from me. Take it from a study his government funded.

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