Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-08-02 13:48:42 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B3189AC6E28C78E80514446F61F4EC0F652C93272B1F4188C04970C7795479F7
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Since January 2020 when COVID began, over 1.6 million people have immigrated to Canada https://www.cicnews.com/2021/02/canada-welcomed-184000-new-immigrants-in-2020-0217133.html https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2021/12/canada-welcomes-the-most-immigrants-in-a-single-year-in-its-history.html https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230322/dq230322f-eng.htm Immigrants are ~75% employed: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220622/dq220622c-eng.htm That's roughly 1.2 million employed immigrants, cancelling out these created jobs which are 86.7% for the government itself anyways: https://www.thestar.com/business/almost-all-new-jobs-created-during-the-pandemic-were-in-the-public-sector-report-finds/article_38d9240a-cd2e-5da6-b584-7c7387e0f977.html
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