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The damage done and the dangers of Liberal immigration policies into Canada

Canada has in recent years had massive levels of immigration into Canada.. In general there is insufficient housing to accommodate these people so the first thing that has happened is that residential rents have doubled in the least seven years.. The cost of buying a home has skyrocketed and has also doubled between price increases in homes and interest rates.. I question if my Daughters who are well educated and have good jobs will ever be able to afford to buy a home.. this is NOT the country I was raised in...

Then there is the dangers associated with immigration.. The proportion of Canada's population who reported being Muslim has more than doubled in 20 years, rising from 2.0% (579,640 people) in 2001 to 4.9% (1,775,715 people) in 2021 and has grown substantially since 2021..This has had a DIRECT correlation effect on anti semitic violence... . the number of antisemitic incidents in the country more than doubled from 2022 to 2023 and has now reached a record high. "If a physical barometer did in fact exist, the reading for 2023 would be off the chart," Richard Robertson, the group's director of policy and research, said in Ottawa on Monday, which is also Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah.B'nai Brith, a Jewish advocacy organization, said that between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023, it logged 5,791 incidents of antisemitism, surpassing the previous record of 2,799 reported in 2021. The two are inexorably linked.. As a Jew in Canada being put at substantial risk I carry both a baseball bat and a firearm with me in my vehicle at all times and I am trained and capable at using both devices to their intended effect.. I never had to do this before the flood gates opened - I have no CHOICE but to do this now.. These incidents have directly impacted me and my family on multiple occasions.. The Synagogue I attend must be guarded by armed police officers, the girls school my Rabbi's Daughter attends has been hit by gun fire on three separate occasions in six months.. The Jewish day care my Wife works at has had one of the Mothers physically assaulted... and I can go on... If an anti semitic incident of violence takes place in my presence - I will do my best to stop it..
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Dolimyte · 41-45, M
There is definitely a need for more housing, especially the affordable kind. Immigration does raise the demand side of the equation, but that is far from the largest cause of housing costs ballooning out of control.

I see the correlation that you identified between Muslim immigration and anti semetic violence. Do you have any evidence of a causal relationship? My understanding of the increase in anti semitism is that it's in responce to the Israel-Hamas war. I can find no credible study suggesting newly arrived muslim imgrants are responsible. Please let me know if such a study exists, I'd be very interested to read it.

You are not reducing the likelihood of violence by carrying around weapons, firearms are never a legal means of self defense in Canada btw.
I have no CHOICE but to do this now
Yes you do. It seems to me that you are becoming that which you fear, a person willing to commit violence in the name of a religious group.
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@Dolimyte no I am someone prepared to defend my community, my family and myself if faced with an existential threat . The armed police outside our Synagogues are not there as props they are there to protect us from highly elevated threat levels. Do you need police guards to allow you to pray? How many times have your religious institutions been firebombed? Shot at? How am I as a Canadian citizen the least bit at fault for the massacre of civilians innocent Jews on October 7 or the required steps to eliminate the terrorists who caused it? You are not ingratiating yourself with us and my legal firearms are staying close at hand despite your views.
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