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U.S. Vice-President JD Vance made a series of posts criticizing Canada’s political leadership, public broadcaster and immigration system, saying our living standards are “stagnating” because of all the “foreign-born” people living here.

In posts to his X account Friday, Vance says Canada’s elected leaders have created “immigration insanity” by leaning into diversity.

“While I'm sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don't need a melting pot, we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada,” he said.

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[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

The classic old tale of measuring living standards as GDP per Capita.

This is the perfect metric for the US, since deepening inequality means that a few billionaires approaching trillionaire status on the backs of their own working class can create a fiction that somehow the country is working just fine. While billionaires put cars and penises in orbit and their workers are denied SNAP benefits, we can always celebrate their beautiful GDP per Capita graph. Congratulations.

Life expectancy, socio-economic mobility, rates of poverty or hunger they have to ignore just about every other metric that one could use to measure peoples quality of life to come to this conclusion.