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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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[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 19 points 8 hours ago

It's funny how your point of view shifts when Instead of calling them immigrants, you start calling them people.

I think everyone acknowledges Canada has brought in too many immigrants recently, but it's not bad because immigrants are inherently bad, it's bad because we've brought them here under false pretenses. They are expecting that we will be able to provide opportunity and wealth that they could not get elsewhere, and we have far, far outstripped the economy, in its current configuration, necessary to deliver that. Our government did a stupid. Probably intentionally. And it will have consequences, which will be many. And people will blame immigrants for those consequences. But it's not their fault. It's the government who has robbed them, and us, of the economic necessities to better ourselves. We're in the same sinking boat as the immigrants. We can throw them out of the boat if we think it'll float a little better with less weight, but really we would be better off teaming up with them to stop all the assholes drilling holes in the bottom.

His issue isn't about economics though, his issue is about racism. He'll just dress it up in economics when it's convenient to do so.