Canada

There is a definite impact to a society when they open up to outside cultures. Countries who don't have a history of large scale immigration face challenges to their identity, and cultural strength, especially when immigrants don't desire to integrate with the culture they migrated to. The citizens have to learn new skills, interacting with people that are different from them, and need to learn acceptance and tolerance. Those are valuable skills to learn, but it's dishonest to pretend that immigration doesn't have any impact on the host country. Certain European countries have been getting a master class on the challenges that mass immigration poses to their unified cultural identity. I'm from the United States, so I'm no stranger to immigration, but I recognize how there would be an adjustment period for those who are.

Canada: "Canada is so great, come live here!"

Immigrants: "ok, just arrived"

Canada: "there's nowhere to live and it's all YOUR fault"

I mean, I understand your frustration, this and previous governments should have dealt with the housing shortage long ago. But I'd say it's unfair to say they're pushing up housing prices, particularly after they just released a plan to address the problem. https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2024/04/12/announcement-canadas-housing-plan#:~:text=The%20plan%20lays%20out%20a,being%20built%20anyway%20by%202031.

seems to be primarily concerned with real estate value and helping it achieve higher and higher values by ensuring not enough homes are available for all Canadians

That's a pretty specific guess that Hanlon's Razor slices up in seconds without some kind of data other than 'seems'.

Agreed. I’m all for accepting and learning from other cultures. I’m not for propping up low wage employers with immigration, particularly when it involves exploitation in ways that the locals refuse to put up with. We’re reaching a point where the boomers are retiring and there’s not as many gen A/Z to fill those vacated positions. Let those low wage jobs sit unfilled until they can find a way to do business while paying decent wages and providing good working conditions. Or go ahead and let the entry level jobs get automated while the actual well paying ones compete for workers.

How is that really a problem? Canada has always been a patchwork country. Why is that suddenly an issue?

Seems like it's only become an issue once the majority of immigrants stopped being white.

Oh, leave people not harming anyone alone. They are not obliged to play with you if they don't want to, grow up and deal with it.