text: Quite the arena here for a xenophobia festival.
  
  The reality is that immigration is good for our economy.
  
  Immigrants bring wealth with them and/or create new wealth.
  
  They commit crimes at a lower rate than the non-immigrant population, and they use less social services than the non-immigrant population.
  
  https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/immigration-how-a-bigger-canada-benefits-us-all/article32302399/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&
  
  http://socialsciences.uottawa.ca/economics-immigration/sites/socialsciences.uottawa.ca.economics-immigration/files/archive_0/Ware_Fortin_Paradis_Canada_IIP_Report_English.pdf
  
  https://www.cifar.ca/assets/arrival-of-the-fittest-canadas-crime-rate-is-dropping-as-immigration-increases-is-there-a-connection/
  
  Fascinatingly, most of the anti-immigration posters here are only here because a generous Canadian immigration policy in the past allowed their ancestors into Canada.