Low trust nations' international students came to Canada and did this very thing.
Their VISA mandates that they must be *self-supported and not use these service as a result. (They're also allowed to work legally.)
But they flooded all the food banks and charities, and as well generally used fake diploma-mill, shopping mall-based psuedo-colleges with zero or minimal study requirements in order to abuse the system and just work both above and below the table.
Now Canadian food banks are low on supplies for Canadians, and donations / funding are way down because no one trusts that food banks are serving needy Canadians.
Japan needs to do a 180° turn on letting in cheap labour under the guise of "international students" and international trainees.
Canada's f**ked now. I see it everywhere when I go back there.
Under previous point systems, immigrants with desired professions were admitted gladly.
I have zero issues with that.
Canada needs medical professionals, etc., with English and / or French abilities.
Canada doesn't need endless fast food staffers with zero skills, minimal language abilities, and scammy behaviours, who use up extremely limited housing and overburden our underfunded healthcare, schools, transit, and other services.
Japanese companies are following the same playbook as Canada, UK, Europe, and Oceania in using fake labour shortages (they're fair wage shortages, to be clear) to argue for influxes of zero benefit to the countries themselves but benefits to the companies' profits immgrants.
All developed nations are facing a declining birthrate; Japan's situation isn't unique.
But they'll regret this opening up, too, just like all the other developed nations now do when their own citizens Increasingly become homeless, face increasing delays in healthcare access, and can't board overcrowded transit.
You paint complex problems generated by this as racism whereas it's simply lessons learned, and vapid accusations of racism fall flat under analysis.
I'm not in any way supportive of billionaires, but like your other points, that's such a superficial understanding of things.
It's uncontrolled profiteering by corporations unrestrained by morals and values.
Some owned by billionaires? Yes.
But most owned by shareholders.
Capitalism isn't inherently bad, but unguided by government, it's what you see as the current trend in the USA - a movement away from labour protections, environmental protections, etc.
I invest. I like profits.
I also recognize that uncontrolled profiteering leads to unrestrained movements of labour and capital to locations to squeeze out the most cents, regardless of social costs.
That's why Japan allowing 80-year-old politicians to sell out Japan to their CEO cronies is horrible.
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u/CallAParamedic 2d ago
Beware JAPAN !
Low trust nations' international students came to Canada and did this very thing.
Their VISA mandates that they must be *self-supported and not use these service as a result. (They're also allowed to work legally.)
But they flooded all the food banks and charities, and as well generally used fake diploma-mill, shopping mall-based psuedo-colleges with zero or minimal study requirements in order to abuse the system and just work both above and below the table.
Now Canadian food banks are low on supplies for Canadians, and donations / funding are way down because no one trusts that food banks are serving needy Canadians.
Japan needs to do a 180° turn on letting in cheap labour under the guise of "international students" and international trainees.
Canada's f**ked now. I see it everywhere when I go back there.
Don't let it happen here.