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We aren't importing people for their benefit. We are importing people for our benefit. You can quibble on those benefits. But corporate Canada is quite content to have these immigrants.

Right. Cause things like daycare are regulated like Canada? You ever been to India? Also, a ton of the License Raj as it was known has been substantially dismantled in the 90s. It's a big part of why their economy started taking off. Incidentally, their TFR went in the opposite direction of...

I just told you that India is below TFR. What overregulation problem do they have? You know what TFR trends maps onto really well? Cost of living. That. And religiosity. Regardless of religion, the more people pray, the more kids they have.

On the security angle, I worry about: The Korean peninsula. SK's TFR is so bad, that in a decade or two they may not have enough recruits to defend themselves from a North Korea that doesn't think anything of militarizing their entire population. Water wars. Particularly India-China-Pakistan...

Productivity is half the problem. Who gets the gains of productivity is an important consideration. And given wage stagnation in Canada, it mostly hasn't been going to workers.

OECD countries are probably irreversible at this point. Gerontocratic policies strongly favour seniors over children. And there's no outlook where that changes. We see this in Canada where child benefits phase out at ~$40k family income and OAS phases out at ~$90k individual income. Or look...

India is already at or below replacement level TFR. They now have headlines like this: https://www.newsweek.com/india-fertility-rate-alarm-2122755 And I think that drop will accelerate faster than the current stats capture if their economy gets worse. As it stands, migration basically...

The Koreans just picked the Global with the Conformal AEW. https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/l3harris-secures-south-korea-airborne-early-warning-contract They also have proposals for a whole ISR family based on the Global. This is how we should support Canadian industry and...

Like I said.... And in today's news: https://aviationweek.com/defense/aircraft-propulsion/l3harris-secures-south-korea-airborne-early-warning-contract

Yep. If that goes through, it functionally becomes a Canadian equivalent to Starshield. How they separate the civil and military Satcom and deal with the clearance issues will be an interesting problem.

https://apps.forces.gc.ca/en/defence-capabilities-blueprint/projects.asp

You'll happily find and post a hundred links on the change in a gearbox for a logistic truck. You can put that same enthusiasm to work learning about space. But if you want something to start, I'll let you research the proposed Canadian alternative to Starshield.

I have already said I don't plan for OAS to be around. And I actively advocate for solutions where I won't collect it. I would much rather that money go to defence, infrastructure, childcare or paying down the deficit. Can you say the same if they offered to cut your OAS tomorrow?

We have the foundations of a full time space force with 3 CSD. And we're about to spend more on space projects than the F-35. But from the discussion here, you'd never know that.

"But why is the birth rate so low?" Geeee. I wonder. I remember this headline capturing the prevailing state of policy in Canada exactly:

1) Nobody is complaining about pensions. We're talking about OAS. 2) When OAS is well over 2% of GDP and heading to 3% by the end of the decade, while defence is struggling to get to and to sustain 2% of GDP, the discussion is quite relevant. It won't be long before a bunch of people start...

You're gish galloping to refugees now. The original point said "illegals". Where is the explanation for that? And this is exactly what I was talking about. Any justification to keep your entitlement going right?

This is a problem with the immigration system. Not the senior care system. And you don't solve an immigration problem by making other problems elsewhere. I'm familiar with this problem as an immigrant. Harper tried to solve this with the parental supervisa. Trudeau got rid of this to win...

The exact quote was about paying "illegals" more than seniors.