February 1st, 2025 | RYAN TYLER

Three Things Destroyed By Mass Immigration

You probably didn't know.

Like most developed countries, Canada has a catastrophically low birthrate. Without some level of immigration, our country would collapse. However, the levels we have seen over the past few years have been unsustainable and highly damaging. As a result of Liberal immigration policies, we have seen an extraordinary erosion in our quality of life and living standards. Most Canadians, though, don't fully understand how much immigration has directly impacted their lives on every level.

Let me explain how mass immigration has diminished your living standards in ways you might not have expected.

Auto Insurance Premiums

You've probably noticed a dramatic rise in your auto insurance premiums, particularly if you live in Alberta—which currently has some of the highest rates in Canada. If you're like everyone else, you have probably called and complained to your insurance broker, or went on the hunt for better prices, only to get the same answer.

Few insurance companies will admit one of the major causes of rising rates. Their statistics are often private and seldom published, so we are not able to see who is causing most of the traffic accidents. However, there is plenty of clear evidence in front of us on a daily basis.

Two particularly troublesome areas are the trucking industry and the gig industry.

In the past decade, there has been a considerable jump in traffic fatalities caused by transport trucks and semi drivers. Think back to the tragic story of the Broncos hockey team, or the more recent death of a mother and her daughter in Manitoba. Or, think back to the recent suspension of a BC trucking company. How about the truck driver in Ontario charged for five counts of hit and run? All of these incidents have one thing in common, but I'm going to let you figure it out.

These are only a few of many more incidents.

As for the gig industry, it is heavily employed with poor drivers. The sheer scale in which food delivery and ride-sharing have increased in the past decade is staggering. There are double the number of delivery drivers on our roads today than there were in 2015. If you use any of these services, you are very aware of who makes up a majority of these drivers.

To make things worse, provinces like Alberta have an “all comers” rule, which restricts insurance companies from rejecting or refusing to insure bad drivers. Worse yet, provinces like Alberta and Ontario make it too easy for foreign drivers to obtain drivers licenses. Sadly, many license holders from other countries can either convert their existing licenses, or pass a simple test. Insurance companies will sometimes insure temporary foreign workers and refugees without requiring a provincial license at all, instead using their international and foreign licenses.

Right at the top with newly licensed teenagers, foreign drivers are causing more traffic accidents across Canada. The reason? Wildly different driving rules and customs around the world. Think of the UK, where they drive on the opposite side of the road—or India, which has had the world's highest number of traffic fatalities for decades.

Emergency Wait Times

More stories continue to emerge about people dying, or coming close to death, while waiting in hospital emergency rooms. In the last ten years, wait times in Canada have increased from an average of three hours, to an average of six hours and higher. If you've ever had to wait in an emergency or urgent care centre with a severely ill child, you aren't learning anything new by reading this.

Within the six months this was written, two people have died in an emergency room.

At the start of 2025, Chad Christopher Griffin died in a Winnipeg emergency room after waiting more than eight hours to see a doctor. One month before him, Adam Burgoyne gave up after a six-hour wait in a Montreal ER and died from an aneurysm the next day. If we go back further in time, we find more people, like a woman in Abbotsford who died after waiting 14-hours.

A Google search for links between January 2001 and January 2016 pulls up only one Canadian death in an ER waiting room. In 2013, an indigenous man named Brian Sinclair died after waiting 34 hours in a Manitoba emergency room. His death was so outrageous, it spawned an inquiry. News of his death was scandalous and went viral quickly, but no other cases can be found from that timeframe. According to an article published in 2012, wait times averaged four hours in Canada that year—and that was considered unacceptable enough to warrant a news article.

Today, average wait times in Canada exceed six hours. In Manitoba, the average is between seven and 11 hours. As we have seen, those numbers are causing a higher frequency of deaths.

If you don't know why wait times have more than doubled in a decade, you can do your own research. If you're bored on a weekend, take a trip to a couple hospital emergency rooms in your city. You don't need to check in. All you need to do is go inside, take a look around, and then leave. When you are inside, simply look around at the people who are waiting. Immediately, you will see it.

Service And Product Quality

In late 2023, Alberta had the largest and most widespread food poisoning cases among children it has ever seen. Up to 1500 children were made sick by tainted meatloaf served at over 11 daycare facilities. The two directors of the commercial kitchen that provided the meatloaf were charged for operating without a license.

Along with the housing shortage caused by mass immigration, there is an emerging crisis in home quality. The legacy news has been reluctant to touch the subject, but social media and Reddit are filled with conversations about the noticeably diminished quality of homes being built in Canada. In booming neighbourhoods and suburbs across the country, there are growing complaints about quality. Along with complaints, lawsuits targetting homebuilders and contractors are on the rise.

Across the board, Canadians are noticing a severe decline in the quality of their products and services. The cause of this decline can be directly linked to foreign workers and immigration. Many will deny this, but again, our eyes tell us the truth. Low-skill workers are filling labour jobs in construction, food service, and various entry-level positions.

First, it is important to address the myth of a “labour shortage” in Canada. Many economist have come to the conclusion that Canada does not, in fact, have a labour shortage. Statistics back this up by showing an actual growth in Canada's labour force. In the same category as “weapons of mass destruction” and “flattening the curve”, the lie about labour shortages has been peddled by corporations and politicians for other reasons. In this case, they are looking to exploit immigrants and foreign workers by paying them less.

The results of this lie are now manifesting in our refrigerators, in our stomachs, and inside our defective homes.

Like with many other industries, homebuilders are resorting to low-cost contractors and framers to do the labour. In almost all cases, these low-cost contractors come from other countries. Don't believe me? Again, go take a drive through a new neighbourhood that is being built. If you are in the industry, you already have the proof. If you're not, you can do your own research.

This summer, my wife and I walked past an apartment complex and series of rowhouses being built near us. All the contractors were yelling back and forth to each other in a different language. Even the crane operator.

This reality is clear across all industries. Low-skill and unqualified foreign workers are hired to fill jobs because they expect lower wages. In some industries there is indeed a shortage of qualified labour, but in many cases corporations are attempting to drive down labour costs. In turn, we are left with shoddy workmanship, food poisoning, and low-quality services.

Overall, mass immigration has negatively impacted our lives in more ways than anyone realizes.