I rarely agree with “scientist” David Suzuki but can’t say he’s wrong here:
The Vancouver-based founder of the influential Suzuki Foundation was quoted in a French magazine in 2013 saying Canada’s immigration policy was disgusting because “we plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. … It’s crazy!”
Like some European environmentalists, Suzuki maintained “Canada is full” because most population growth occurs in congested cities. While praising Canadian multiculturalism and supporting welcoming more refugees, Suzuki’s main arguments zeroed in on how Canada is contributing to the brain drain from developing countries and that population growth is an environmentally destructive way to prop up Western economies.
Not to mention that survival here requires a lot of energy consumption. Makes no sense to bring people from low energy societies to Canada if you really believe in CAGW like Trudope claims.
we don’t deprive those countries of future leaders we remove welfare clients.
This goes into the same category as Caesar Chavez being vehemently AGAINST illegal immigration … as it suppressed the wages of the Farmworkers he represented. The ONLY people who support illegal immigration …
– Democrats who enroll illegals as voters
– The US Chamber of Commerce
– Multinational Corporations
– The GOPe
“…we plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders…”
As much as I oppose mass electorate replacement policies this just made me LOL.
well colon, you laugh at some thing we discussed in class over 40 years ago. You are as well informed on this as you are on jet fighter choices. Butt girly-boy, like a few others in here, you do provide entertainment
A class 40 years ago, yep your senility is showing.
I did t get the impression that these border jumpers were the brightest and best from whatever shithole they came from.
Nah the best and brightest are those who figured out how to scam UN handouts in perpetuity.
*IF* any action is taken to reduce CO2, there are three immediate steps that could be taken that would trump all others combined:
1. Massive growth nuclear energy;
2. Immediate halt to all immigration from third world countries; and
3. Massive effort to voluntarily reduce population growth in any region where birthrate is greater than replacement….. Such as payment for sterilization…
Actually 2 & 3 are the only ones necessary for a stable and sustainable future. We have enough oil, gas and coal to satisfy our energy and transportation needs into the next millennium.
Here in the SF Bay Area it is HIGH FASHION to claim your food is “locally-sourced” so as to lessen the burden on the planet (lower transport/refrigeration costs).
Sadly … there is no such FASHION regarding locally-sourced citizens. Nope. When it comes to people … the further they travel to arrive in our gardens with lawnmowers, or bent over our toilets with scrub brushes, the better.
The Suzuki is a disillusioned Anti-human creep… anything that reduces population.. He is for a general Famine, War, or Disease… His research as reported (not completed by him) was the Fruit Fly and drugs , that made him a CBC hero… A fake Canadian hero that is a simple hair ball….
JMHO
“The Suzuki is a ‘disillusioned’ Anti-human creep…”
correction: ‘dissolute’
Canada has two choices:
Become a Chinese colony.
Or:
Merge into the United States.
As much as I dislike the man, I sort of agree with him. We need to stabilize the population. But it ain’t happening. Pollution, crime, bio-diversity loss, diseases and plague, and piles and piles of garbage are the future. Take a look at an aerial photo of Lagos. Talk about dystopia. Liberals and neo-Marxists want to destroy Canada so they can control it.
I agree with you and Robert. As much as I detest Suzuki’s ideas and hypocrisy, after reading the article, I think he and Meyer make a valid point on this. The only quibble I might have is “depriving them of future leaders” when, other than a few doctors here and there, all we see coming in is the poorest who contribute mostly cheap manual labour.
The above arguments do not address the Trojan horse 7th century ideology that is also coming in to change our society.
No those things are the past. The world is getting cleaner as it gets richer.
He may be out for himself, and he’s done very well for himself financially, but he still has some mental independence, he hasn’t sold out completely. Ditto for the BC Green Party, whose platform opposes allowing foreigners to buy real estate. They may be whacko watermelons, but they’re the only politicians in Canada to get that one right.
And if Americans reciprocated , all those Canadians with property in Arizona and Florida would get screwed. Would they be thanking the BC Green Party flakes? Greens are narcissists who are so wrapped up in self righteous zeal they have no idea that they aren’t the only people on the planet that give a shit about the environment. Take that away from them and there is nothing left but a pathological desire to hold political office to control the lives of everyone else.
You got my upvote.
Suzuki’s ideas are logical and correct. We don’t need to fill up Canada with people, there is no sense in this. It only reduces our quality of living. In Vancouver is one massive traffic jam these days and there are ongoing policies designed to “densify” our living spaces at the same time. And as usual, there is the clamour to develop affordable housing for the new migrants. I see the quality of life dropping.
“It only reduces our quality of living.”
Wrong. We are only richer for immigration. Not a single place has worse quality of life for mass immigration.
Canada can sustain and benefit from moderate immigration levels, particularly if we don’t feel obliged to favour Muslims. Suzuki is a deep green zealot who considers himself better than anyone else, a socialist, and an advocate for the anti-industrial revolution. His policies would impoverish Canada. If you’ve ever met him you would likely agree that he is an arrogant ass hole.
Vancouver has never been “affordable” and if it were, there would be twice as many people there.
Canada can plunder as many like-minded liberals from America as it wants.
We’ve been trying to get these red-coat/red-shirt socialists to own up to their promise of leaving America for the emergent Communist Utopia up North for a long time. Your enlightened aristocracy surely would not turn away its ideological brothers and sisters (and trans and hermaphrodites and what-not).
Tell you what:
A) We’ll send you Bernie Sanders’ constituency since they seem to love your system. It’s relatively cold in Vermont year-round too, so they’ll be pre-acclimatized, we promise.
B) Keep sending us traitorous rebels like General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, who somehow got born on the wrong side of the border. We’re still trying to train the General out of his soccer habits (At least he doesn’t call it “Football”). His Hockey habit is acceptable though… Americans are OK with this Canadian export called “Hockey” as long as there’s plenty of controlled violence.
Suzuki is an a-hole and so is anyone who agrees with him. Immigration doesn’t ‘plunder’ anyone because those people aren’t property of their countries/societies of origin. They have every right to take themselves wherever they want to go to.
Suzuki has entered the senility stage of his life. That’s the only thing that can explain comments like these.