nel4: Perhaps my comment wasn't specific enough. I think the situation in Toronto and Vancouver validates the argument put forward by the British economist and Oxford professor Sir Paul Collier, who holds that mass immigration and globalized migration are at best only marginally beneficial to Western societies. He's noted that such policies tend to generate differential economic and social impacts, with corporations and the rich the main beneficiaries and the less well off (including other recent immigrants) paying an often disproportionately steep price, including facing greater competition for relatively scarce affordable housing and employment opportunities. But raising these valid issues in Canada prompts predictable howls of outrage from virtually all political corners. We're just not permitted to have a reasonable and mature discussion about these things and none of our major federal parties seem inclined to change this.