Unprecedented Surge In Chinese Applicants Willing To Buy US Green Cards

[Max E.]

You've been gone a while. Many "native" Canadians I know are quite unhappy that immigrants are getting subsidies, subsidies large enough to enable them to buy houses (in Calgary, for example) that the natives can't buy.

You have been hanging around left wing buddies, who believe tax breaks are the same as spending for too long.

If a chinese immigrant comes to Canada and starts up a business that makes a million dollars a year, lets say he pays 200k in taxes, even if the government gives him a tax break for 100k, he is still bringing in an extra 100k in taxes that never would have been here in the first place, on top of that he is creating jobs.

I dont resent anyone who gets to pay less in taxes, in order to keep more of the money that THEY EARNED, so long as they arent coming after mine. Though I do resent the government for making a fucked up system where everyones taxes are different.

 

[Ricter]

I work in Toronto every week doing banking IT for the past three years. Toronto has a very diverse population with people from all over the world; China, India, etc. I work with a group of people where finding native Canadian is like finding a needle in a haystack.

Canada has been very open to attracting immigrants - especially skilled immigrants. Most of the people I work with have advanced degrees and came to Canada because they were not able to get a green-card to the U.S - All of them work very hard.

However there is a lot of push back and resentment inside Canada because the immigrants have greatly driven up housing prices and are eligible for all of the social benefits.

I think Canadian healthcare must be a big part of why so many Chinese are coming here to retire. I mean, they have money enough to snap up condos in Calgary, so they have money enough to "live like kings" in China--except maybe for healthcare.

 

[Max E.]

I think Canadian healthcare must be a big part of why so many Chinese are coming here to retire. I mean, they have money enough to snap up condos in Calgary, so they have money enough to "live like kings" in China--except maybe for healthcare.

If you have enough money to live like a king in china, then you probably have enough money to pay for better healthcare in China then what Canadians get for free from the government.

 

[Ricter]

If you have enough money to live like a king in china, then you probably have enough money to pay for better healthcare in China then what Canadians get for free from the government.

One would think so, and yet here they are. Maybe they come for Canada's weather!

 

[Max E.]

One would think so, and yet here they are. Maybe they come for Canada's weather!

Maybe they come to escape an oppressive government, I suppose that thought never came to you given the fact you love big government.

 

[Ricter]

Maybe they come to escape an oppressive government, I suppose that thought never came to you given the fact you love big government.

Oh I doubt their shuffling up and down the sidewalk all day is interfered with any more in China than it is in Canada.

 

[Max E.]

Oh I doubt their shuffling up and down the sidewalk all day is interfered with any more in China than it is in Canada.

LOL, only someone who has actually lived in Canada would get that joke, I lived in Brampton, so it was always the old Sikh men with the white beards, and their ceremonial daggers walking around the street all day with no particular purpose.

East Indian, and Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. dont do that, not where I have lived anyways.