I'm kinda new here so I can't comment on thread locks and overzealous modding. But legitimate arguments should be discussed. Its the bad faith actors, and conservative and Russian trolls who latch on to any real argument to shoehorn in their hate and disinformation. Look at how well it worked in Brexit.

Precisely.

Person: "We should slow down our immigration rate."

Someone else: "Don't be racist."

That's the conversation, more or less, for most of Trudeau's time in office. Now that Carney's starting to do that, it's not.

You didn't amswer my question. You said "people like me". What did I say that triggered you to lash out at me?

Also, now I'm starting to see the point. You actually are framing the discussion in a probably racist way. <-feel free to be triggered now. It might not be intentional, I have no idea. But just fyi if you want to know why people say that to you -

If the immigration system was built on rules and selection criteria, why does it matter where they come from? Qualified is qualified. That you choose to single out Indians is why you are getting called out. It's not common sense at all. It's racist. You aren't pointing that the rules are bent for India, which would be a legitimate complaint. You just say too many of those people.

It is not odd that India represents by far the single largest immigrant source. Being not only one of the most populous countries, but a commonwealth country with a very high rate of english as a second language and as a developing country with heavy poverty, inequality has a lot who want to leave.

You can make an argument about the total numbers of people we can absorb. Like my point about a country in a housing crisis not tying immigration numbers to housing completions only adds to the crisis.

The proverbial floodgates were opened because of our demographic crisis - an aging population won't have enough young workers to support pensions a d healthcare let alone a changing economy. In trying to solve one crisis (demographic), they exacerbated two more (housing) and affordability (labour wage suppression.)

The abuse of the student loophole with sham "colleges" is a legit complaint. These are people who don't qualify as permanent residents going to false front schools just to live here and work full time at the jobs qualified Canadian youth can't get.

The abuses of the TFW porgram, where people can't get interviews or jobs while businesses are filing obviously bogus TFW applications claiming that they can't find anyone skilled for high paying jobs is also legit criticism. Nothing racist about that. Brutally bad policy where Trudeau was asleep at the wheel and Carney hasn't yet and likely won't fix.

The student loopholes are mostly closed and only the TFW abuses and the housing crisis remain.

Notice how I didn't need to single out any particular group? That's not racist. Picking on Indian immigrants because they're too many from one country? That is indeed clearly racist, even if unintentional.

Edits for clarity and spelling.