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A U.S. brain drain could be Canada's brain gain. (www.cbc.ca)
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Trump's funding cuts are puncturing holes in U.S. academia — and Canada could benefit

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I propose a trade. They can have Jordan Petersen since they seem to love the guy so much, and we'll take their "controversial profs" who are really just trying to do their jobs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I believe he already moved to florida

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

If only we took care of the housing crisis and they could have somewhere to live. It's almost like housing is more infrastructure than investment.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did a lot of good things. However, his immigration policy was a disaster. The country went through*** extreme*** population growth in a very short time.

Companies wanted to import cheap labor. Colleges wanted students. And the result is that housing prices in Canada went through the roof, in every province.

Attracting very educated foreigners has become more difficult because of housing prices.

It's a major mistake.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The disaster was that the immigration policy wasn't matched with any meaningful policy to create more housing at an affordable price. Immigration is something Canada continues to need, but on housing politicians are torn between the demands of those who can't afford housing and the demands of the corporations that build and own property, plus (to a lesser extent, because the gains aren't real) homeowners who want their property to keep increasing in value. And as usual corporate interests tend to win out.

But maybe there could be corporate pressure for Canada to do something about housing, if it helps other (non-housing) corporations attract skilled workers from the USA and elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Also, while it's true there may have been too much immigration in a short time, that's not a primary reason for housing costs rising. Asset prices are going up because homes are treated as an investment. At least according to graphs in this Breach video, there's been no correlation between immigration and housing costs.

Economist Gary Stevenson has outlined many times as well how homes increasing in value for an extended period of time can actually be seen as a precursor to a shrinking middle class, though middle class people often don't see increasing pricing as a feature of wealthier buyers out-competing them.