@TheophanesRex@jkenney This is just strictly not true at the moment. But I addressed how they will similarly contribute to the same issue of an aging population when they are part of that population. It's just another form of kicking the can down the road because nobody supports the actual solutions.
@coriposting I feel like saying they were the first to do it through referendum is misleading considering they only did it in 2015. Numerous other EU countries legalised it far before that. They also have a lot of paradoxically pro-russian sentiments.
@jkenney As someone who likes a lot of Carney's other policies, I don't think this is an ideological or a political issue. Canada like many Western countries has found itself in a predicament where we are struggling to pay for our aging and increasingly non-working population. (1/?)
@jkenney This of course is also a method of borrowing from the future, because someone will have to pay for the aging immigrant population the same way. But I guess the optimists view would be that the electorate can be convinced of one of the other approaches by then. (4/4)
@jkenney Heavily like a country like japan, which is fiscally unsustainable. Since all of these options require far more political will, the most politically palatable option for constituents of all parties is more and more immigration unfortunately. (3/?)
@thetacittruth23@JJ_McCullough The tradition of longstanding practice of a principle can be considered cultural, but the principle itself is not the culture.
@thetacittruth23@JJ_McCullough They draw from completely different places and hold different significance to a countries national character. The ideological values of a country can come and go with regimes but culture is rooted in the *peoples* of a nation.
@ZontarAlt@tohofuny This but also I do think there's a valid argument about historical significance even if it just looks like "muh gold" to most people.
@thetacittruth23@JJ_McCullough Of course there is a ton of overlap between US and Canadian culture. I just don't think ideological principles are relevant and I don't think a sport most Canadians don't care about is a good example. Hockey would be a stronger example, or much of our food cultures.