Canadian blogger John Carter has posted on Substack a column sure to interest AIC Foundation readers, titled, “If You Want To Afford a Home, They Need To Go Home.” The “They” in the title refers of course to Canada’s foreign-born, most of them Indians and Pakistanis, about one million of whom are flooding into the dominion every year. The influx of foreigners over the past two decades has increased the country’s population by ten million, an almost 25-percent increase.
Though Canada’s overall land mass is huge, most of it is lightly inhabited at best, and 90 percent of Canadian residents live within 100 miles of the US border. Thus the country’s livable space is much more restricted than it would be if situated in more temperate climes. Nevertheless, the current regime is dedicated to something called the Canada 2100 plan, which calls for increasing the country’s population to 100 million by 2100.
Such plans, coupled with an anticipated relaxation of regulatory constraints and a flood of not-so-skilled foreign workers, would increase the population of the Greater Toronto Area from its current 40 million by 60 million. Spread over 3,000 square miles, that biomass would result in a third-world megapolis of substandard housing with a population density eight times higher that of Bangladesh.
Forestalling such a nightmare, according to Carter, can be done only by (1) immediately locking down the border to prevent further incursion and (2) deporting en masse those foreign born already in the country. He argues persuasively that the technology that has brought them here can be used to send them back.
So much for the non-citizens, but what of those Canadian citizens with roots on the subcontinent? Carter boldly cites instances — such as in the Baltic states — where citizens (of Russian origin) have had their citizenship revoked, making them eligible for deportation.
Carter knows that these solutions are not going to be pursued by Canada’s current leaders. What to do in the meantime? He cites the example of Ireland, where native Irish have finally decided they have had enough. He writes:
Since there are no solutions within conventional electoral politics, the Irish people have, sensibly enough, reverted to an older and more hands-on form of politics. They refuse to work on construction projects meant to house migrants. They block buses filled with migrants from entering town. They burn those buses, and sometimes they burn the buildings which have been set aside for the migrants to use. . . . [N]ow the Irish are practically in open insurrection against “their” government, in a battle for the continued existence of Ireland as something distinguishable from a North African slum.
For more, see “If You Want To Afford a Home, They Need To Go Home.”