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@AugustusBenle The rich parts of East Asia have among the lowest birthrates in the world, very strange example.

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@eclecticV @paypig42069 It takes 8 weeks and less than $400 to apply for OCI. Get to it.

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@eclecticV You can apply for OCI and move back (and even eventually regain citizenship), but keep lying.

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@Graham_Mark_E @Anthony__Koch If mere presence makes someone who could be home in 2 days tops our responsibility, it’s time to reconsider tourism. We don’t live in a world where mobility is a commitment anymore and we shouldn’t act like it.

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@TheBeyToronto @Anthony__Koch They’re not an ‘underclass’ if they have citizenship elsewhere. They’re longterm tourists who can take it or leave it. Preventing statelessness on the other hand doesn’t require birthrate citizenship, and most of the world doesn’t have it.

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@mo7medhadj @Anthony__Koch Total entitlement. No, we don’t need people who think of the country as a grab bag of gibs they can compare to what’s on offer elsewhere, with an inflated sense of what they have to contribute. We have plenty of homegrown talent here, most of whom actually like the country.

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@moebius_strip Canadian healthcare is only good for geriatrics, who get bumped up for ‘frailty’ in ERs over acute but easily treatable conditions. The system is fine because a 90 year old got seen right away for treatment that will make no difference, your burst appendix is a small price kid.

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@eweknit72 @AngoraGoatLady So you won’t be whining if you pension is cut? The only real difference here is seniors coerce support through the state.

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@AngoraGoatLady I think seniors would smarten up if they got no state benefits and knew their only safety net was their individual children, not coerced support. It was a mistake to let those living on others believe they are ‘independent’ and owe nothing.

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@wheatie4 @WDiminishment @samcooper Propping up housing prices benefits boomers.

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@Monetarius @colewhogan Meanwhile, selfish geriatrics just insist their own interests are everyone’s interests. Stealing children’s educations to give the old more mobility in a pandemic was us and them, rebranded as a collective good.

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@GogirlCa @colewhogan The median person even eligible to vote is around 50. The young can’t outvote the geriatrics in aging democracies. The young need to be organizing to withhold labour and threatening to abandon the old, mostly.

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@MJ3556619476583 @Smileyyeg There should be no ‘balance’. The government should not prop up housing! This is not how free countries work. We don’t need to balance the desire of boomers to make the next generation serfs to fund their retirements with the desire of the young to have a market that isn’t rigged

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@CriticalLib @Pilot454647 Imagine throwing away a cohesive society to not seem judgemental. Yes, it matters whether people understand what’s happening around them, sorry.

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@biglibertyguy The independence of young families at the expense of the elderly getting less comfort (and control!) is a great and indispensable part of Western culture actually.

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@AvidCommentator Migration is not basically zero! There are nearly 450k a year becoming permanent residents, offset by temporary residents declining, baking in a formerly reversible problem forever and not really changing course from the status quo long term.

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@PiotrRetardo @SKivimaa Let’s cut the pension piggies OAS in half, then we can increase it a few percent a year and wag our fingers at them about how they don’t understand things are improving.

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@KaalateetX @SKivimaa 3% of India is more than Canada’s population. You clearly can’t see it from our perspective, but we also don’t have to be the dumping ground for India’s excess population.

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@AwldSossige @SKivimaa @Buffbabe3 How’s population growth going for Africa? This is just factually not how prosperity works. Canada also doesn’t become meaningfully more dense by cramming more people into Toronto. Size itself has pros and cons, but Canada can’t become a truly dense country and still feed itself.

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@NNinerfan @MetamateDaz For how long? You seem to be overextending a thing people did for a year or two into being about affordability for people years into their careers.