Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will introduce a bill to end H-1B visas, which allow companies to bring skilled foreign workers, days after Donald Trump backed the program.
Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will introduce a bill to end H-1B visas, which allow companies to bring skilled foreign workers, days after Donald Trump backed the program.
Yeah, I don’t agree.
Here in Canada we pay a buncha tax to get things like universal healthcare and to fund various social programs, we also handle taxes differently than other jurisdictions.
Like even with the existing setup, one of the issues we have is that there’s been a fairly standard style of immigration where chinese citizens will buy property in Canada and have the kid and “stay at home mom” living in Canada, while their Dad/breadwinner stays in China. One reason its done this way is that Canada was considered to have better education opportunities and social supports for the non-income earning side of the family – and property taxes are fairly low in places like Vancouver, with income taxes being very high. However in China, it’s the opposite – high property taxes, low income taxes. So as a country/region, you end up with basically no tax income, but high social program costs, with ‘needy welfare’ people living in multimillion dollar properties.
And once the kid is through school, and entering the workforce… they often go back home to china to take over the family business from a retiring parent. That parent then comes to Canada, and enjoys the old age social security network.
If you remove all impediments to inter-country immigration, I reckon that sort of abuse would become so rampant that social programs would become essentially unsustainable.
Yeah thats some kind of asinine loophole Canada has that has nothing to do with what I proposed. Like how is that even possible.
Those sound like the sorts of issues that could easily be addressed by well thought out legislation. I have a nephew that recently got a digital nomad visa so that he could work for his US employer while traveling around Europe. Some of those countries require you to prove you have health insurance or buy insurance from their national health network. Those countries also regulations regarding taxes, etc. that the visa holder is responsible for.
So Canada should pass laws to close the loopholes you describe. They would need regulations similar to digital nomads that apply to foreign exchange students etc.
Yeah, but a bunch of legislation and conditions isn’t what the op guys comment was hinting at. He was basically saying, get a job? Congrats, you’ve immigrated and get all the citizenship perks of wherever you work.
So you don’t want foreign workers being able to work in Canada because immigrants are not taking Canadian jobs?
Sounds like you actually have a property tax problem.
Or china has a property tax/income tax problem.
The variance is why the approach the op commenter hints at doesn’t make sense.
Sure maybe they do, but you can’t vote in China. You can vote in Canada though. And Canada’s real estate issues are at least somewhat known down here. Which, given how apathetic American media is about Canadian problems should tell you how horrifically fucked up your real estate situation is. It’s almost as if your country is courting exactly that type of relationship with foreign investors.
Oh, yeah, our housing situation is an absolute gong show. I’m “hopeful” that our current govs push for a kind of modular/prefab evolution will help, but it’s really not clear how that’ll pan out, or when – and most of their “major projects” that they’re pushing for, are still about building infrastructure for corporations to extract resources to foreign partners, not so much about building up Canada itself, so there’s good reason to be skeptical of it all. Like even the Small Nuclear reactors they’re promoting, are made by US companies and are reliant on US fuel sources, which is absurd.
But this is basically a thread responding to a commenter’s take on how immigration should be entirely dependant on job acquisition – get a job in Canada? Boom, you’re Canadian. Get a job in the US? Boom, you’re American. The point of my previous comment isn’t so much to highlight/critique “Canadian” or “Chinese” policies on housing and income tax, but rather to point out that there are differences that make the commenter’s take unfeasible in my view. I’m just familiar with the Canadian/Chinese variance as it’s been an issue that Canada’s failed to address adequately for years.
Typical of the ignorance of the internet. Look it up.
Are you saying you’re a Chinese citizen?
I’m saying I’m educated. Try it.
Are you sure? Because reading comprehension doesn’t seem to be your strong suit.