Canadian Gov’t Gambled on Migration, Wrecked Economy
by Neil Munro
Paychecks in the United Kingdom and Canada flatlined when their governments tried to grow their economies by importing millions of diverse migrants, Vice President JD Vance pointed out Friday.
“While I’m sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don’t need a melting pot we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada,” Vance said on X.
“It has the highest foreign-born share of the population in the entire G7 [group of major economies] and its living standards have stagnated,” Vance said. “The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.”
His comment displayed a chart showing the relative decline in economic output per person in Canada and the UK since 2016, compared to U.S. growth.
In Canada, family spending — “Household final consumption expenditure per capita” — has flatlined since early 2022, say records provided by a Canadian government agency.
“Households in the United Kingdom have experienced a significant fall in living standards since late 2021,” according to Statista.com: “Real household disposable income in the UK fell by 2.2 percent in the 2022/23 financial year, representing the biggest fall in living standards since at least 1956.”
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In Biden’s term, wages stalled even as average wealth in the United States continued to climb because of lower regulations, rising stock values, and inflating housing costs. Also, Biden’s migrant inflow was roughly one-third the per-citizen scale that Canada’s government inflicted on Canada’s roughly 40 million citizens.
Over the last year, Vance has repeatedly argued that ordinary Americans gain more from high-tech investment than from additional low-wage immigration.
“If you go back to the three years of the [high migration] Biden administration, the average American worker actually lost about $3,000 in take-home pay. In the first 10 months of the Trump economy,” Vance told Breitbart News on November 20. Under Trump’s low-migration policies, “We’ve increased take-home pay by about $1,200, adjusting for inflation. So that’s a huge, huge thing,” he added.
Similarly, Americans were pushed out of housing because Biden “flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who are taking houses, which ought by right go to American citizens,” Vance told Fox News.