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[Lord_Tony]

LOL, not Duterte please no, Trump looks more reasonable compared to him, he maybe fair in local policies but he's absolute garbage in foreign relations especially during the POGO era where he virtually gave the Chinese free working VISAs, they caused Philippine property and rental prices to go sky high and out of reach for most Filipinos (I know I was there, and it was so hard to find a place). If there was one thing that COVID done good to the PH, is that it got rid of these Chinese POGOs, and kept them out. Duterte sucked up to Xi so bad and in the end, the Philippines got nothing out of it.

yayaya I hear you, I was comparing him to JT and uncle joe who get nothing done.

 

[GandiBaat]

The last part about "I don't see any solutions being implemented" is right. I've not seen PP talk about caps or rightful levels of immigration. It is all talk about building more housing which sounds good on paper, but can easily fail during execution. So many people have faith that conservatives will put a hard stop to excessive immigration once they are in place - we will see in 2024 though.

Basically, Canada suffers from a massive policy and implementation paralysis. The express entry system that we are using right now / have used actually came out of conservative government. In past, things were even more fucked up as far as processing of immigration apps were concerned.

Same is true with housing, these folks have massive amount of land in very habitable parts of their country. They JUST DO NOT WANT to build houses and only give excuses.

 

[GandiBaat]

My understanding is even as a economy if India becomes the third or second largest global GDP in 2050 AD or whenever their time comes. Only the top 10% of their population will supposedly benefit. The rich become richer and the poor and folks who live within a dollar a day expenses, might still keep struggling with creeping cost of living and other needs etc in 2050. The distribution of wealth in India is right now very poor and they will find that scenario challenging, wont become any better unless they get a dictator or have a revolution like China. The curse of being a democracy, needs collective decision making.

India, believe it or not is a socialist country at its core. Indian government indeed feeds a lot of poor people through subsidized and sometimes free commodities. A lot of people fall through the cracks in the system and YES there is a massive corruption, but a massive majority is actually served and are saved from starvation. Especially in rural parts of India

So, "living on a dollar a day" is rather a weird kind of metric in India's case because for poors, its not always the dollar they are earning that feeds them. Better metrics are direct measurement of social welfare metrics (life expectency, IMR, child stunting, access to sanitation, vaccination %age, schooling years, literacy rate etc) and consumption (number of good purchased of various kind, number of commodities purchased) as they reflect the true status of India.

They have been making a steady progress (if slowly). So yeah, in 10-20 years poors of India will still be poor in terms of dollars earned --perhaps-- but much less of them will be dying in childbirth, they will be living longer, they will be more educated, they will be less likely to suffer from childhood stunting and so on. And yes, India will be a vast ocean of poverty with small islands of prosperity. It will drag it self into upper middle income country eventually with massive difference between haves and have less.

 

[wonderbly]

Results: Rounds of invitations
Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system #268– October 10, 2023

See full text of Ministerial Instruction

No Program Specified

Number of invitations issued: 3,725Footnote*

Rank required to be invited to apply: 3,725 or above

Date and time of round: October 10, 2023 at 15:49:55 UTC

CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 500

Tie-breaking rule: October 02, 2023 at 15:25:30 UTC

If more than one candidate has the lowest score, the cut-off is based on the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profiles.

 

[Hopeful007]

The last part about "I don't see any solutions being implemented" is right. I've not seen PP talk about caps or rightful levels of immigration. It is all talk about building more housing which sounds good on paper, but can easily fail during execution. So many people have faith that conservatives will put a hard stop to excessive immigration once they are in place - we will see in 2024 though.

About the rest, I don't know, but I think this "third world" behavior of cloaking bigotry under "I'm suffering" is a plain disgrace to a first world country. If things are hurting them so much, why not do the most basic thing that a first world democracy allows them to do - Protest! It does feel like they are simply born in a first world could but act very similarly to their "third world" counterparts. I guess it is what it is. Living in Canada for most immigrants of color would now require steering clear of these losers.

To be fair to PP, it would be a mistake for him to talk about capping immigration, it would make him an easy target. All he needs to do is watch Liberals go down the drain and hammer them on the housing issue.

Protests will eventually come, Ontarions were already doing rent strike thing. But you are right, I am kind of surprized that people are not protesting the BS in housing market.

 

[GandiBaat]

To be fair to PP, it would be a mistake for him to talk about capping immigration, it would make him an easy target. All he needs to do is watch Liberals go down the drain and hammer them on the housing issue.

Protests will eventually come, Ontarions were already doing rent strike thing. But you are right, I am kind of surprized that people are not protesting the BS in housing market.

He does not need to show his hand in all domains. In many he can just point to issues and be done with it.

 

[Impatient Dankaroo]

He does not need to show his hand in all domains. In many he can just point to issues and be done with it.

I want to see how far Canadians can be pushed in terms of disastrous policies before they rise up given their averse nature to conflict and disorder. Also, I want to see the full damage a left-wing socialist can do a well-functioning economy if given the authority.

 

[Lord_Tony]

After working 2 weeks in NY I comeback to GTA and can feel I'm surrounded by dumber people.

 

[RSub]

After working 2 weeks in NY I comeback to GTA and can feel I'm surrounded by dumber people people.

10 years in US and imagine what I must be feeling.

 

[andrews17]

Results: Rounds of invitations
Ministerial Instructions respecting invitations to apply for permanent residence under the Express Entry system #268– October 10, 2023

See full text of Ministerial Instruction

No Program Specified

Number of invitations issued: 3,725Footnote*

Rank required to be invited to apply: 3,725 or above

Date and time of round: October 10, 2023 at 15:49:55 UTC

CRS score of lowest-ranked candidate invited: 500

Tie-breaking rule: October 02, 2023 at 15:25:30 UTC

If more than one candidate has the lowest score, the cut-off is based on the date and time they submitted their Express Entry profiles.

I'm at the 480-490 range. I always get excited when they start doing rounds of invitations a bit more often and the scores start dropping, but when they reach the 490-500 range, they just stop for a month. It's frustrating.

 

[Impatient Dankaroo]

I'm at the 480-490 range. I always get excited when they start doing rounds of invitations a bit more often and the scores start dropping, but when they reach the 490-500 range, they just stop for a month. It's frustrating.

It will be a while before it goes to low 480s. As I said before, the system favors those who can game the system vs. those who some consider 'superior or more deserving' candidates.

Just like the SAT or GMAT/GRE exams, it's not whos the smartest but ones who can game the exam that wins

 

[imransyed]

Just finished watching my brother's graduation ceremony of his diploma mill degree. And this is at a University in GTA.
Not. A. Single. Chinese student. Although this could be due to covid lock down in China.
98% Indians, 2% a mix of Africans/ philipinos.

At first it was weird, then funny, then a little worrying, and then downright saddening.

I hope these young kids figure out a way to success but when the head of the institute is wishing them luck coz they're graduating in an exceptionally challenging landscape, can't imagine what they'll be going through.

 

[Shadow09]

Just finished watching my brother's graduation ceremony of his diploma mill degree. And this is at a University in GTA.
Not. A. Single. Chinese student. Although this could be due to covid lock down in China.
98% Indians, 2% a mix of Africans/ philipinos.

At first it was weird, then funny, then a little worrying, and then downright saddening.

I hope these young kids figure out a way to success but when the head of the institute is wishing them luck coz they're graduating in an exceptionally challenging landscape, can't imagine what they'll be going through.

Well these so called students went for PR and not to learn anything

 

[Lord_Tony]

It will be a while before it goes to low 480s. As I said before, the system favors those who can game the system vs. those who some consider 'superior or more deserving' candidates.

Just like the SAT or GMAT/GRE exams, it's not whos the smartest but ones who can game the exam that wins

It is sad IRCC seems to think the higher points leads to better quality of immigrants. But what I see is lambdas who are young in their mid to late 20's have nearly maximum age points. Additionally they now buy their way, pay employers to sponsor LMIAs. Lambdas create themselves or via employers create fake work experience letters and gather those 500+ CRS scores and easily bag those few available ITA. Sometimes I feel Canadian immigration is dumb and getting dumber day by day, The affected are the real skilled ones who have exhausted their potential, follow the rules and laws and get penalized by IRCC for that. Canadian immigration needs a lot of cleansing and bold leadership steps which is totally lacking with both JT and the current croissant.

 

[Shadow09]

It is sad IRCC seems to think the higher points leads to better quality of immigrants. But what I see is lambdas who are young in their mid to late 20's have nearly maximum age points. Additionally they now buy their way, pay employers to sponsor LMIAs. Lambdas create themselves or via employers create fake work experience letters and gather those 500+ CRS scores and easily bag those few available ITA. Sometimes I feel Canadian immigration is dumb and getting dumber day by day, The affected are the real skilled ones who have exhausted their potential, follow the rules and laws and get penalized by IRCC for that. Canadian immigration needs a lot of cleansing and bold leadership steps which is totally lacking with both JT and the current croissant.

agree with you, this LMIA buying needs to stop. Can the ones inland do something about it? tell authorities about his LMIA fiasco. People who buy LMIA should be DEPORTED