Canada to lift visa requirements for Mexico

[VCR_CAT]

There's so much American news; I gotta break this trend with a good ol' update from the Great White North.

 

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/06/28/canada-lift-visa-requirements-mexico

 

To summarize (although I encourage you to read the article): Canada will be lifting the visa requirement for Mexicans to visit, work, and/or study in Canada. However, Mexicans looking to work or study in Canada still need to apply for a work or study permit prior to their arrival. They will also need an Electronic Travel Authorization, a thingy that becomes linked to one's passport, to transit or fly through Canada. The eTA's are really cheap ($7CAD) and simple to apply for, though. Something you can even just do online.

 

Thoughts?

[mido9]

I'm just imagining Canada by 2050 full of transgenders, bremainers and bernies with a 90% income tax rate above 10k with mexicans, muslims, and asians brawling it out with trigglypuff in the corner complaining about how the Quran doesn't come with a trigger warning.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

I don't care where they go to as long as it's not my country

[Tourmaline]

What a disaster.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

What a disaster.

Why so bigoted?

 

Clearly this is a good thing, think of the vast diversity Canada can boast now :)

[VCR_CAT]

Why so bigoted?

 

Clearly this is a good thing, think of the vast diversity Canada can boast now :)

 

On the flipside, I think we get to have an easier time selling our beef in Mexico? Idr I'd have to look it up

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

Welcome to Canada you gorgeous sun-kissed babes!

[Slinky]

better they go to canada than america.

They'll fit in easier.

[(GigaDrillBreaker)]

I mean, this is a good thing, right? It seems they still need proper registration. Does this actually pose a significant threat to the economy?

 

I'm just imagining Canada by 2050 full of transgenders, bremainers and bernies with a 90% income tax rate above 10k with mexicans, muslims, and asians brawling it out with trigglypuff in the corner complaining about how the Quran doesn't come with a trigger warning.

Could you not?

[epicmemesbro]

This is actually great news for me. I was going to go to Mexico to finish post grad stuff and get an international automotive engineering licence because I have dual citizenship. However, I suppose I can study in Canada instead. Getting Visas and stuff will be pretty easy for me as well.

 

 

I don't care where they go to as long as it's not my country

Your'e too late! There are already about 55 million of us in "Your country". :)

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

I mean, this is a good thing, right? It seems they still need proper registration. Does this actually pose a significant threat to the economy?

 

 

Could you not?

Why not? It's not an unrealistic outcome if Canada continues like this?

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

"Could you not?" is never an argument. Mido's perfectly entitled to free speech, just as you'd be perfectly entitled to use it in rebutting him, like so:   

 

I'm just imagining Canada by 2050 full of transgenders, bremainers and bernies with a 90% income tax rate above 10k with mexicans, muslims, and asians brawling it out with trigglypuff in the corner complaining about how the Quran doesn't come with a trigger warning.

 

I'm from Canada and first heard about "triggering" via this site, but okay. Some of us Canadians were too busy picking our teeth up off the ice we were smashed into for that nonsense, excuse us.

 

Mexicans have to deal with the brutal reality of a drug war affecting their country at all levels - sponsored of course by Americans and their appetites for Mexican guns and drugs.

 

If there's one thing I'm sure of it's that those "transgenders" who haven't killed themselves *are tougher than you*.

 

I don't care where they go to as long as it's not my country

What a disaster.

 

You guys are "triggered" at the mere thought of interacting with people from Mexico.

 

Our little "free speech clique" is all well and good, but how can you call yourselves free speech advocates if you won't let anyone you're uncomfortable with in the same air as you, let alone speak freely to you?

[Tourmaline]

I'm tougher than you Mido.

 

I'm just supportive of proper discrimination.

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

"Could you not?" is never an argument. Mido's perfectly entitled to free speech, just as you'd be perfectly entitled to use it in rebutting him, like so:   

 

 

I'm from Canada and first heard about "triggering" via this site, but okay. Some of us Canadians were too busy picking our teeth up off the ice we were smashed into for that nonsense, excuse us.

 

Mexicans have to deal with the brutal reality of a drug war affecting their country at all levels - sponsored of course by Americans and their appetites for Mexican guns and drugs.

 

If there's one thing I'm sure of it's that those "transgenders" who haven't killed themselves *are tougher than you*.

 

 

You guys are "triggered" at the mere thought of interacting with people from Mexico.

 

Our little "free speech clique" is all well and good, but how can you call yourselves free speech advocates if you won't let anyone you're uncomfortable with in the same air as you, let alone speak freely to you?

Simple, as it currently stands, it looks like our next president will be giving amnesty to all the illegals here, and most likely will also do very little to stop further illegal inflow.

 

The last thing we need is to ALSO weaken the legal barriers. It's not about hispanics as much as it is about Labor proliferation being toxic to economic growth

[Aerion Brightflame]

The literal lack of blue collar work in your nation, and increasing industrialisation/globalisation is probably a bigger issue to economic growth than migrant numbers. Along with the generally widening wealth gap.

 

Since it's hard to grow the economy when people don't have any money to spend on it. 

[Ryusei the Morning Star]

The literal lack of blue collar work in your nation, and increasing industrialisation/globalisation is probably a bigger issue to economic growth than migrant numbers. Along with the generally widening wealth gap.

 

Since it's hard to grow the economy when people don't have any money to spend on it. 

Illegals will take the jobs of the low skill legals

 

Legals can get welfare, the pit gets deeper. 

 

You hit the nail on the head actually. We can retreat from the world, but labor is being replaced by capital. We no longer need workers, we need skilled laborers. Something like the scientists we gathered after WW2. Doctors. Those type of people.

 

The problem with more labor now, is it's more bodies that we have to deal with when we're already struggling to give jobs to the rest 

[VCR_CAT]

I'm just imagining Canada by 2050 full of transgenders, bremainers and bernies with a 90% income tax rate above 10k with mexicans, muslims, and asians brawling it out with trigglypuff in the corner complaining about how the Quran doesn't come with a trigger warning.

 

I mean, a benefit of having the USA between us and Mexico is a reduced worry on illegal immigrants simply due to how much harder it is to get from Mexico to Canada than Mexico to the USA. There's still registration and a few legal hoops to jump through to legally work/live in Canada for Mexicans, but not having to get a Visa will make the process easier.

 

I mean, this isn't strictly a bad thing and I'm sure many people are going to be very happy to hear this news. If anything, it's silly to see people immediately jump to ridicule simply because others are willing to be more accepting of people.

[Aerion Brightflame]

So increase minimum worker rights to the extent companies can't dick them over as freely. That way employees can actually fight for more rights and more benefits from there employment and you see a rise in standards. I.E. you deny companies the right to fire immediately in most situations, force them to give notice, you revitalise unions (As corrupt as some are, it's the lesser evil here) so this sheet can be done, and you raise the minimum wage nationally. 

 

You do these things and it means that a lot of American's might not have to work multiple jobs in order to simply survive. That in and off itself means that more jobs open up, and even if they don't - People have more money to spend, so they help build up the economy and get more jobs into the economy through the growth. 

 

There's other approaches that focus around making things better for American citizens rather than just getting rid of migrants. Since even if you got rid of migrant, American households are still in a sheet position, they still have to have multiple jobs to survive, they'll still be poor ect. There might be more jobs around, but it won't be that much of a QoL improvement.