Saturday, July 15, 2023

The shitholification of Canada

Towards the end of June a tent appeared near the local dogpark. A week later there was a second. Today there were seven. Next week?.. who knows? This is happening in a small city of barely 20,000. In world-class Toronto, with it's world-class ten-year waiting list for public housing, newly elected mayor Olivia Chow has promised to tackle the housing crisis, beginning with the scandal of 3,000 recent refugees clogging up the already over-burdened emergency shelter system. Her first order of business is to convene a meeeting between the city, province, and federal government to discuss the issue. That's the political class' "solution" to damned near everything, isn't it? Have discussions. Strike a committee. Hire expert consultants. Have more discussions... That's the same political class that swoons over our great achievement of adding a million new would-be Canadians in 2022. Aren't we awesome! Not sure how awesome it feels to those refugees. Maybe living on the streets in Toronto remains preferable to living in a refugee camp in Syria or Somalia, but surely that's not the standard we should be comparing ourselves to. Going forward, I predict in a few years they'll be celebrating the arrival of two million immigrants annually. The three levels of government will still be having discussions, stiking committees, and hiring consultants. That's the same political class that imagines they can solve the opioid crisis with safe injection sites. We'll solve the doctor shortage by poaching from third world countries. We're pushing back against declining math scores by dumbing down the math curriculum... and so it goes. Is our political class really this incompetent? Or is reducing Canada to "shithole country" status their actual agenda?

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