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[29er Radio]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,

Our latest Lisa, Gene & Eric is up for your listening pleasure. This show we contemplate self righteous do gooders coming up with ill thought out ideas that inevitably lead to a path leading to a special kind of hell. Very uplifting. Enjoy the show and we love your comments. http://bit.ly/2UluRYh  

[Victoria Watcher]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,
Our latest Lisa, Gene & Eric is up for your listening pleasure. This show we contemplate self righteous do gooders coming up with ill thought out ideas that inevitably lead to a path leading to a special kind of hell. Very uplifting. Enjoy the show and we love your comments. http://bit.ly/2UluRYh

so it concentrates mostly on Lisa Helps’ ideas?

[29er Radio]

so it concentrates mostly on Lisa Helps’ ideas?

If you are a listener you will know that we welcome all ideas to our comfy coffee table including the Mayor's.  I may add that one person's paradise is another's hell

[RFS]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,
Our latest Lisa, Gene & Eric is up for your listening pleasure. This show we contemplate self righteous do gooders coming up with ill thought out ideas that inevitably lead to a path leading to a special kind of hell. Very uplifting. Enjoy the show and we love your comments. http://bit.ly/2UluRYh

Wow. Only Lisa could lack self awareness to that degree.

[29er Radio]

Wow. Only Lisa could lack self awareness to that degree.

RFS, did you listen?

[29er Radio]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,

The latest Lisa, Gene & Eric is up for your listening pleasure. This show we are joined by Here Magazine's publisher Fiona Bramble to discuss the benefits to our communities of new comers to Canada settling here in our region.   Enjoy the show and we love your comments.  http://bit.ly/2UHguht  

Edited by 29er Radio, 02 February 2019 - 01:01 PM.

[Mattjvd]

RFS, did you listen?

The topic (and comments on VV) intrigued me so this is the first of your podcasts that I listened to. Great content and interesting to learn a little more about our Mayor's opinions. Great to heat she voted against some of the rulings that bothered me (applying the affordable housing requirement retroactively).

[RFS]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,
The latest Lisa, Gene & Eric is up for your listening pleasure. This show we are joined by Here Magazine's publisher Fiona Bramble to discuss the benefits to our communities of new comers to Canada settling here in our region. Enjoy the show and we love your comments. http://bit.ly/2UHguht

Ok so now that the benefits have been discussed, I assume next week you’ll discuss the negative effects of mass immigration? You know, stagnant wage growth, unaffordable homes, an entire generation worse off economically than their parents were

[RFS]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,
The latest Lisa, Gene & Eric is up for your listening pleasure. This show we are joined by Here Magazine's publisher Fiona Bramble to discuss the benefits to our communities of new comers to Canada settling here in our region. Enjoy the show and we love your comments. http://bit.ly/2UHguht

Ok so now that the benefits have been discussed, I assume next week you’ll discuss the negative effects of mass immigration? You know, stagnant wage growth, unaffordable homes, an entire generation worse off economically than their parents were

[Victoria Watcher]

one of the common mantras by pro-immigration people is that “we need more young workers” etc. since our birth rate is low. but there are few if any jurisdictions that have run completely out of workers. and a worker shortage actually drives up wages and can be a very good thing for wages.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 February 2019 - 06:19 PM.

[RFS]

one of the common mantras by pro-immigration people is that “we need more young workers” etc. since our birth rate is low. but there are few if any jurisdictions that have run completely out of workers. and a worker shortage actually drives up wages and can be a very good thing for wages.

The same people who say we need immigrants because we don’t have enough young workers, also tell you not to have kids to save the environment

[G-Man]

I am a huge supporter of the Canada Century Initiative which would have us increase our immigration two or three times to have our population grow to 100 million by the end of the century. Without immigration Canada would have disappeared into irrelevance many years ago. We would have a declining population and true we would not have enough young people to do most of the work. 

 

It has been through immigration that Canada became a country at all and for it to continue to succeed it will need to increase it substantially.  

[lanforod]

Do you consider Japan irrelevant? Population there has been declining for years now.

[Mike K.]

It’s not immigration that is the issue, it’s the way Canada has elected to pursue the immigration issue.

Trudeau’s famous “all are welcome” Twitter post was not lost on those who wish to pursue illegal means of entering this country, thereby creating longer wait times for those applying through the proper channels (this, in fact, is now a serious challenge facing Canadians and immigrant hopefuls). Ontario in particular has been hard hit with communities there scrambling to find housing for people and the funding to house them while the feds look on in pursuit of their next pre-election goal.

Canada is a nation of immigrants, of which I am one, but immigration as historically identified in our country is not what is currently happening along our border, and while we absolutely should help those who are fleeing violence or persecution, the federal government’s mishandling of the situation is epic.

[G-Man]

The amount of people crossing the border illegally into Canada is peanuts. If I were rich I would be sponsoring immigrants to Victoria as fast and as many as I could.

[spanky123]

The amount of people crossing the border illegally into Canada is peanuts. If I were rich I would be sponsoring immigrants to Victoria as fast and as many as I could.

It isn’t peanuts when the Feds and Provinces are having to cough up hundreds of millions of dollars each to pay for it.

[G-Man]

That is the amount we are spending on it the volume of people is tiny.

[29er Radio]

Ok so now that the benefits have been discussed, I assume next week you’ll discuss the negative effects of mass immigration? You know, stagnant wage growth, unaffordable homes, an entire generation worse off economically than their parents were

RFS would you like to come on and discuss those points?

[29er Radio]

Good Morning Vibrant Victorians

Our latest Lisa, Gene and Eric offering is up for your listening pleasure and we were happy to be joined by Steve Woolrich of Rethink Urban who work with communities to help development projects be more inclusive through their "The Gateway" program. Enjoy the show and we love your comments. http://bit.ly/2U94NzU 

[29er Radio]

Good Afternoon Vibrant Victorians,

Latest Lisa, Gene and Eric show is up for your listening pleasure. This week we have past Victoria councilor Margaret Lucas joins the gang to talk about renovating the Douglas Hotel, being a business based councilor and life after politics. Enjoy the show  http://bit.ly/2Cbra0E