I can directly speak to the overwhelmed healthcare point. Conservative governments have consistently and deliberately underfunded and hamstrung healthcare in several provinces to make it easier to push for privatization.

That's the exact same thing that's happening to the NHS in the UK.

Fuck globalization lmao, it doesn't even matter where you choose to live anymore everything's fucked. Welcome to Cyberpunk ~~2077~~ 2027

It's my understanding that government run operations tend to be more efficient. Sure, you constantly hear about the waste, but who are you hearing it from? It's from capitalists who want to own it, because then they can profit from it, and them profiting from it implies that that money is being taken from the revenue of the operation.

Notice the Big 3 recommendations are always fire 10% and never cut C-Suite comp by 10%.

What banks in Canada received bailouts, exactly? Even during the 2008 collapse, no bailouts, no small FIs (credit unions) went under.

I think you're thinking of America.

And in this case, my comment wasn't about op ex or efficiencies specifically. It's just a blunt statement that the canadian government can't handle all the immigration, nor can canadian systems or infrastructure. It's all crumbling as a result of stupid levels of immigration -- which accounts for practically 100% of our population gains for the past however many years. Housing prices fluctuate based on immigration levels -- housing costs have been going down since 2024 (before trump and the recent nonsense), the same time that they put harder caps on immigration. If you look at a comparison between the real housing price index and our immigration levels over the past two decades, the spikes and dips match up pretty well.

People unquestionably in favour of immigration don't look at what it does to the sustainability and stability of existing infrastructure/ecosystems. Introduce an influx of hundreds of thousands of wolves to a pasture, and it doesn't matter how efficient the 2000 worker sheep may be, they're all fucked. You can't instantly create hundreds of thousands of sheep to meet the new demand for sheep from the hundreds of thousand of wolves. Our government can't manage to do basic checks on even the reported abuses, so it really isn't any surprise that we have shit like international gang extortion rings in BC these days.

Theoretically, the government canceling thousands of claims will reduce the waitlist for the claims they don't cancel. Hopefully they keep an exception for Ukrainian refugees, because Canada seems to be pretty good about supporting Ukraine if I'm not mistaken.

I hope your friend's claim doesn't get canceled and that they get to stay. It sucks for the rest of the people whose claims are getting rejected, but narrowing the scope might help Canada better serve a smaller, more manageable number of refugees.

Again, this is theoretical. I don't know the details. I just hope they're not rejecting any Ukrainians' requests for refugee status...

At a personal level, there's going to be shitty situations all around. As noted, I personally have relatives who've been on waiting lists for years for things like basic mobility issues, which is significantly lowering their quality of life (like, they can't really go out at all, they're just stuck waiting). That's largely the result of the health care system being overwhelmed by the surge in population. So not cutting off immigration surges, and not curtailing this sort of thing, is putting local/Canadian lives at risk.

Again, shitty to hear about your friend -- and I know looking at aggregates doesn't really make that any less shitty on a personal level. Best of luck, hopefully they can stay.