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How Canada's immigration debate soured - and helped seal Trudeau's fate (www.bbc.com)
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Immigration has long been a polarising issue in the West but Canada mostly avoided it - until now. With protests and campaign groups springing up in certain quarters, some argue that this - together with housing shortages and rising rents - contributed to Justin Trudeau's resignation. But could Donald Trump's arrival inflame it further?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't make sense that in such a country with so much space they can't build houses, especially as as migrants are mostly young and energetic, so what's stopping them from applying their energy to build - is it conservative planning laws ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

having a neighborhood in the middle of nowhere away from jobs is possible (and still happens, increasing sprawl and creating nightmarish commutes and awful car traffic due to lack of rail infrastructure) but most people move into the same high demand areas where people already live

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Believe it or not, that land is used by nature to keep us all alive. The solution to population growth cannot be expansion into the greenbelt. More efficient, denser cities and PT are the way forward.