Валенґар/Valengår

The official and personal page of Valengår, lone member of Forostar.

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@PolicyWars @TalkTonysTakes Why are Americans this retarded?

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@BagelPolling It's insanely simple actually, change the outcome for a positive claim to what Ukrainians (most recent real refugees to come to Canada) got: open 3yr work permit, and $3000 to get yourself settled. No federal health care, no welfare eligiblity, etc. watch ref claims drop by 95%

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@TPPajarinen Creemore, Mill St and Boneshaker are everywhere (grocery stores, LCBO, restaurants). Shevchenko at a handful of grocery stores, many LCBOs & Ukrainian restaurants, the rest are usually available at certain LCBOs, but not tiny hole in the wall ones.

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@kavancleary @EricDLombardi Who the fuck cares if he does, at the provincial government level it is literally irrelevant

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@AceWarIsGreat @EricDLombardi @Vern_76 I didn't see that but that's disappointing if he did

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@AceWarIsGreat @EricDLombardi @Vern_76 https://t.co/Fje2uAlFzR

He's talked about immigration before (even tho it is a federal thing)

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Canadian leaders are too afraid to engage seriously with the frustration many normal people feel about immigration after the last few years.

But I share many of their concerns.

We have made honest conversation too difficult. And in Ontario especially, we have been naive about the effects of sudden population growth on housing, wages, infrastructure, public services, and yes, social and cultural cohesion.

Immigration has historically been one of Ontario’s greatest strengths. It helped build our industries, our cities, and our prosperity.

But many Ontarians feel gaslit if they express frustration about current circumstances.

Young people watched rents explode. Entry-level work became more competitive and lower paid. Colleges transformed into immigration pathways. Infrastructure and healthcare struggled to keep up. It has changed our politics, too.

People are not imagining this. Ontario experienced a genuine immigration shock. This at least is somewhat acknowledged.

And while Ottawa deserves plenty of blame, Ontario cannot pretend this simply happened to us.

Doug Ford’s government helped create the conditions for this crisis by blowing up the higher education funding model.

They froze tuition, underfunded colleges and universities, then allowed institutions to make up the difference by massively expanding international student enrollment.

That turned parts of our higher education system into an immigration-processing business.

Now Ontario now needs a reset.

And because immigration policy is ultimately federal, Ontario will need to work closely with (and pressure) Ottawa to pursue a system that is sustainable, orderly, and capable of maintaining public trust.

Permanent immigration should return to a more normal and sustainable baseline, and no longer be subject to insiders claiming “labour shortages”.

Over the next 5-10 years, Canada should gradually unwind the enormous temporary resident population from roughly 5 million people nationally to well under 1 million. Some, of course, should be offered a path to stay, but many cannot and we need to honestly acknowledge that.

That likely means a prolonged period of near-flat population growth.

Going forward, temporary worker, asylum, and student streams need to shrink substantially. More than they have. Visa rules need to actually mean something. Asylum claims cannot quietly become a parallel permanent residency system.

At the same time, we should reward people who follow the rules. If someone came legally, worked or studied honestly, avoided welfare, and left when required, they should receive a meaningful advantage if they later apply to immigrate permanently.

And finally, we need to remember what immigration policy is for.

It is not primarily a humanitarian program. It is a civilization-building and economy-building program.

Ontario and Canada should prioritize immigrants with the skills, education, economic potential, and cultural compatibility to help build a prosperous, cohesive, high-trust society.

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@Kama_Kamilia Lmao that's crazy, I think I have an original Canadian pressing at my mom's place that she gave me, didn't realize it was priced like that

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@Donsmith524 @FrozenLoonie @CanadianCoffey He literally is, anyone who has applied to any chain store knows that they always say they can't take a resume in person and tell people to apply online. Handing out resumes only maybe (at best) works for one off stores, and even then they usually hire their family to work there

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@thehellmaxxerFU 1914 covered the Prodigy's Invaders Must Die

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@blandCinema @YevKopiika What does this have to do with russians celebrating Ukrainian civilian deaths?

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@pictureladyjan @AndrejShabanov3 @Ania_In_UA @IIHFHockey They're a katsap living in Czechia

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@anangelshorn @Jfcdoomblade I had an idea to do a bit by making the choruses for each successive song, lmao

"Turn off the lights and close the door, it is unforgiven four"

"Stuck here lost, adrift with no drive, this is unforgiven five"

"Stones to dust and trees to sticks, this is unforgiven six"

Etc

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@esjesjesj @P_Kallioniemi

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@addammy1 As the meme goes:

"Do you support Doug Ford being drawn and quartered?"
Yes: 78%
No: 16%
Unsure: 6%

"Who will you vote for in the next provincial election?"
OPC: 65%
Liberal party: 21%
NDP: 9%
Other/Unsure: 5%

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@BenMulroney A guy with a yearly salary of approx. 300k can't afford bespoke clothes? Maybe he needs to budget better

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@fdondi1 @DrBlockbird @TrueSlazac Google Roxham Rd, the most popular illegal crossing spots. They changed legislation to combat it tho, but still nearly 100k from the US into Canada

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@ray_hoang30 @EricDLombardi Honest question, are you a real estate developer or just retarded?

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

@francedownfall By her own admission she left south sudan nearly 30 years ago, so at this point she is more "privileged" than any Ukrainian in (and probably out that left due to the invasion) Ukraine. Or do you think that different ethnicities will always be worse off in the genocide Olympics?

[Валенґар/Valengår @ForostarBand]

This retard is expecting a Ukrainian in Ukraine to know what Ontario Works is

[Saiah @sighahh]

Now why would you assume I’m on welfare, a term we don’t even use in Canada? Where is that assumption coming from ��Jimmy”?