Nope, you have it backwards.  Immigrants make jobs more than they take jobs.  The laziest people in Canada, on drugs, welfare, won't work, et cetera, are the ones that have been here for generations.  They think Canada owes them a living.  While it's true that immigrants often start on the hind foot, they're always willing to work.  They can face serious impediments including language skills, bias and lack of recognition for their credentials, but after an adjustment period they are, as a group, much more upwardly mobile than the general population. And through their industry they then create jobs.  I don't have the stats to back this up, but I do have the life experience and powers of observation.  Anyone who says otherwise is just making stuff up as far as I'm concerned, and then unfortunately I have to wonder at their motives at making up such nonsense.  I'm sure it isn't bigotry, but what could it be?

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