You don't build London and Paris by adding millions of bodies over a short period of time. That's how you build Mumbai and Mexico City.

Today's article in TorontoStar.
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Toronto is already suffering severe growing pains, the result of the federal government's insistence on maintaining the world's largest per capita annual immigration intake — around 250,000 people a year of whom about 43 per cent come to Toronto. That's more than 100,000 newcomers year after year after year.

"The more time the regular classroom teacher is having to devote to ESL students ... it detracts from the level of service we want for all of our students," union president Martin Long told The Globe and Mail.

It is impossible for any city to maintain its social and physical infrastructure in the face of such relentless population growth.

There is no reason why Canada should have far more immigration than any other country. Canada's existing population is younger than those of most other developed countries and its ratio of working age people to retired ones is higher. If Canada reverted to its traditional, more moderate, immigration program, it could continue to enjoy the benefits of immigration while sparing its cities the problems of unmanageable growth. Immigrants would benefit too. Their economic performance has been in free fall over the past 15 years.

An endless stream of newcomers arrives in the big cities with few options but to work in poorly paid jobs such as cleaning houses and driving taxis. Wages of these jobs are thus kept low and the occupants of them have little chance to get ahead.

Previously, poverty levels among immigrants were about the same as those of the Canadian-born. Now they are much worse. According to a report by the Canadian Council on Social Development, whereas the poverty level of those who arrived before 1986 was 19.7 per cent, or slightly lower than that of the Canadian-born, the poverty level of those who came after 1991 was an alarming 52.1 per cent, while that of people born in Canada remained unchanged at around 20 per cent.

If this trend is not reversed, Toronto and Vancouver will by 2020 be home to an entrenched underclass living in slums. Because of gentrification and rising property values in the central cities, these slums will be located in the suburbs, requiring long commutes for those fortunate enough to have employment.

Luckily, Canada doesn't need to reinvent the wheel. It merely needs to emulate the solutions that Australia's more successful immigration program has already found, such as requiring the credentials of skilled immigrants to be approved before they come and imposing strict requirements for language skills.

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this guy seems to be from anti immigrant lobby....maybe a desi....who do not not more immigrants to come to canada....as it increases the competetion......

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Originally posted by son-of-india

this guy seems to be from anti immigrant lobby....maybe a desi....who do not not more immigrants to come to canada....as it increases the competetion......

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This article is so true. We cans see it happening around us in Toronot. It is already a glorified slum with all the ethnic ghettos "Black" "Trini" "Chinese" "Brown" "lanka" and there is a "Muslim" one too.

I made the mistake of renting a apartment in a area in between scrborough and east york. So was surrounded by "Tigers" on one side and a large "religous minority " area on the other side.

I was glad to be out from that apartment in a year.

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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership

so true..but u knw there is saying ..where there is honey..bees are there..

so obviously toronto is better than any part of canada which atracts so much crowd.i dont thin k vancouver is that gud also

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it is nice to be important..but it is more importanat to be NICE

Bees and Honey(quality people) is good but all the Garbage attracts flies and insects too.

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You know you are a desi when ........ You spew forth the virtues of India, but don't want to live there...............You've never had a tanning salon membership

Due to the large number of immigrants concentrated in one place unlike any country in the world, this city has become ghettoized. Chinese area , tamil area , phillipine area , punjabi areas etc..

there is no assimilation with other groups / communities at all

things would not be bad if people spread outside and think of canada as not just toronto

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