It's not that taking in immigrants isn't valuable. What I'm saying is their criteria have been flawed from the beginning. FSWs benefited from it pre-pandemic, and now FSWs will never be able to immigrate. What Mendi and co have done is senseless mass migration without ever setting up teh infrastructure or zoning laws to support that population. They are increasing their country's population by over 1% every year through immigration, with no laws to improve the housing market. They pretend to select people based on NOCs but then once they get there, those fields are protected and prohibitively expensive to get into, and most people become generic IT monkeys anyway. Ohoh let's get these amazing french speakers outside of Quebec. Who cares though? French is a dying language in Canada, especially outside Quebec, and even Quebec has to desperately try to preserve it through archaic laws that would even put the elitist French to shame.
It is debatable, but I am of the opinion that immigrants are a net good for a developed country. The way Canada is doing it though, it's a net bad. There is no incentive to actually live in Canada. People will just use it as a clean retirement home when the time comes. Why? Well they never addressed what made immigration necessary in the first place. It is prohibitively expensive to raise kids. the housing bubble is ridiculous. Goods and services are far more expensive than what they are worth. Simple things like internet and cell phone plans are among the most expensive (and also the slowest) in the developed world. The leading conservative party nominee jerks off to Trump at night, and the liberal party leader is an absolute moron who appoints imbeciles to slowly chip away at democratic rights. As a country, Canada is screwed long term, and immigrants pretending otherwise won't help.