Before I get started, note the University example is just one of many.
I just finished registering for university a few weeks ago and there is tonnes and tonnes of programs for immigrants, ethnic people, people who have just recently moved to Canada and are permanent residents (Therefore not foreign students) to get reduced education cost and government assistance.
I've been thinking lately, why do people who have just recently moved to Canada and hardly contributed a damn thing get so much assistance? Why does a middle class tax paying person like me get chit on, and literally anyone from a third world country who moves here gets completely catered to? I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed here, I'm saying they should get the same damn treatment as me. I don't really make that much money right now since I got laid off from my mine job. It's not like I'm a rich ballin upper class white kid going to a pretentious private school. My tax money is being sent to some of these people who are basically sponsored by the government and competing against me in the education / business world.
I almost get this feeling that here in Canada we are made to believe we owe impoverished countries something. I do not agree with sending billions of dollars of foreign aid to countries that are rife with corruption and power concentration. It's not our job to sort out other country's problems. Taxes are paid to the canadian government in trust that they will use those funds to help Canadians by building roads and creating infrastructure. The purpose of taxes is not to bring over uneducated people from a poor country to compete with me in the business / education world.
There are even privately owned companies like Tim Hortons and Maple Leaf who have business deals with the Canadian government where the Canadian gov' will subsidize wages for temporary foreign workers, give companies like Tim Horton's and Maple Leaf tax breaks for employing these temporary foreign workers, supply TFW with government housing, and then these TFW take money out of the Canadian economy and send lots of it home to the phillipines. Effectively, companies like Tim Horton's and Maple Leaf are getting away with paying these workers less than minimum wage.
Why does it seem like people who were born in Canada, pay taxes, vote, etc. are being marginalized and the government is basically giving people from other countries free tax dollars and putting them in situations where they are competing with us? I have a feeling situations like this are what breed nationalism and even home-grown terrorism.