I know many people eyebaliing to get out of Vancouver, including myself. Besides the ridiculous real estate prices, I'm not Chinese, and I feel out of place in my own country. But, where do I go? I really feel the government never had Canadians concerns at heart -- they had bankers and property developers greed at heart. I don't trust the government. I don't feel a sense of community with tons of people that don't speak my language or look like me.
Now, we're just another generic asian country. Nothing to be proud of.
I'm so glad to see people commenting here feel the way I do. Canada has certainly become a welcome mat for immigrants, and so much to the point where I am now struggling to find employment because I do not speak Mandarin or Punjabi. This really hurts a lot. I was born and raised here, and learning those languages was not even an option, now it seems like a requirement. If these people want to come to Canada and be Canadians, maybe they should start acting like it. A start would be speaking English, removing your turbans and wearing a helmet like everyone else has to, the list goes on.
But in all honesty, this isn't their fault, it's our government. They allow this madness to the fullest and I can't blame these people for wanting to come here and bring 20 family members with them. It is a beautiful place to live, but not for much longer. I already know of a handful of people that have had to leave BC because it's simply too expensive to live here now, I'm already trying to think of where I can move to because I'm struggling to survive here.
I also think it's SICK how they are playing this "racism" card to keep everyone quiet. This has absolutely nothing to do with racism, it's about watching what was the most beautiful place on earth that we've always called home go on a downward spiral and in the process, become so incredibly expensive an crowded it's hard to live. I am seeing less and less of average family homes, now the options seem to be either multi-million dollar homes or condos that are so packed in you can barely fit a car in the garage.
What we are experiencing here is a non-hostile takeover, and the government is loving the extra cash flow but I really wonder, how much thought has been put into this? Our schools are crowded, more importantly the elderly are left to die in hospital hallways. This is highly unfair for the people that lived and worked here their whole lives. They are trying to bump the senior pension age from 65 to 67, if they haven't already done so. Despite this, I recently read that the immigration minister has responded to the immigrants requests to bring their mothers and fathers over, who are old, not working, and will need to live off our social services, yet never worked a day here.
This is just so insane I could go on forever. This needs to STOP, and it needs to stop NOW. It's already getting to the point where it's too late. Vancouver is now 2nd most expensive place to live in the world, just behind Hong Kong. This is nothing to be proud of. Have you ever been to China? If BC turns out like that every Canadian will want to head for the hills.
Let's stand up for our country, our home -- before we end up with a new place we have to call home.
tony hilton - 12 years ago
Anyone who would promote population growth, especially by immigration, must be totally blind to the long term consequences for pollution, depletion of resources, unsustainability on just about every count, and massive increases in ethnic rivalry and, if there's an economic downturn, ethnic conflict. Have we not had enough ethnic conflict between aboriginals and European later comers? Between the French and the English? How can Canadians be so stupid?
This is truly unbelievable.
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jamie williams - 12 years ago
canada needs to stop being the worlds immagration welcome mat and start thinking about our future
Citizen of the West - 12 years ago
The answer is NO we should not keep going until we resemble New York as your editorial asks. The beauty of the Vancouver and BC that I grew up in is the laid back quiet beauty, not the expensive, densified unfamiliar place we are starting to become. We are told to expect another million people in the next couple of decades or so. They told Toronto that also, and then they got a million more, and another million .... you get the picture.
TruthandJustice - 12 years ago
If anyone actuallu believes that such high immigration is necessary they are very naive. No other country with a similar birthrate has eperienced such massive changes. When did we ask for our communities to become concret jungles and for us long time residents to bceome alienated? Such change is unnerving.
I know many people eyebaliing to get out of Vancouver, including myself. Besides the ridiculous real estate prices, I'm not Chinese, and I feel out of place in my own country. But, where do I go? I really feel the government never had Canadians concerns at heart -- they had bankers and property developers greed at heart. I don't trust the government. I don't feel a sense of community with tons of people that don't speak my language or look like me.
Now, we're just another generic asian country. Nothing to be proud of.
I'm so glad to see people commenting here feel the way I do. Canada has certainly become a welcome mat for immigrants, and so much to the point where I am now struggling to find employment because I do not speak Mandarin or Punjabi. This really hurts a lot. I was born and raised here, and learning those languages was not even an option, now it seems like a requirement. If these people want to come to Canada and be Canadians, maybe they should start acting like it. A start would be speaking English, removing your turbans and wearing a helmet like everyone else has to, the list goes on.
But in all honesty, this isn't their fault, it's our government. They allow this madness to the fullest and I can't blame these people for wanting to come here and bring 20 family members with them. It is a beautiful place to live, but not for much longer. I already know of a handful of people that have had to leave BC because it's simply too expensive to live here now, I'm already trying to think of where I can move to because I'm struggling to survive here.
I also think it's SICK how they are playing this "racism" card to keep everyone quiet. This has absolutely nothing to do with racism, it's about watching what was the most beautiful place on earth that we've always called home go on a downward spiral and in the process, become so incredibly expensive an crowded it's hard to live. I am seeing less and less of average family homes, now the options seem to be either multi-million dollar homes or condos that are so packed in you can barely fit a car in the garage.
What we are experiencing here is a non-hostile takeover, and the government is loving the extra cash flow but I really wonder, how much thought has been put into this? Our schools are crowded, more importantly the elderly are left to die in hospital hallways. This is highly unfair for the people that lived and worked here their whole lives. They are trying to bump the senior pension age from 65 to 67, if they haven't already done so. Despite this, I recently read that the immigration minister has responded to the immigrants requests to bring their mothers and fathers over, who are old, not working, and will need to live off our social services, yet never worked a day here.
This is just so insane I could go on forever. This needs to STOP, and it needs to stop NOW. It's already getting to the point where it's too late. Vancouver is now 2nd most expensive place to live in the world, just behind Hong Kong. This is nothing to be proud of. Have you ever been to China? If BC turns out like that every Canadian will want to head for the hills.
Let's stand up for our country, our home -- before we end up with a new place we have to call home.
Anyone who would promote population growth, especially by immigration, must be totally blind to the long term consequences for pollution, depletion of resources, unsustainability on just about every count, and massive increases in ethnic rivalry and, if there's an economic downturn, ethnic conflict. Have we not had enough ethnic conflict between aboriginals and European later comers? Between the French and the English? How can Canadians be so stupid?
This is truly unbelievable.
:
canada needs to stop being the worlds immagration welcome mat and start thinking about our future
The answer is NO we should not keep going until we resemble New York as your editorial asks. The beauty of the Vancouver and BC that I grew up in is the laid back quiet beauty, not the expensive, densified unfamiliar place we are starting to become. We are told to expect another million people in the next couple of decades or so. They told Toronto that also, and then they got a million more, and another million .... you get the picture.
If anyone actuallu believes that such high immigration is necessary they are very naive. No other country with a similar birthrate has eperienced such massive changes. When did we ask for our communities to become concret jungles and for us long time residents to bceome alienated? Such change is unnerving.