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You would have to go back in time and first identify a point where immigration volumes might have been too high. It wouldn't necessarily be continuous either. During the 1980's there was a period of recession, and the Government of Canada cut immigration quite sharply. This article from Statistics Canada has a chart of annual immigration to Canada from 1852 to 2012. (Statistics Canada is the central statistical agency of the Government of Canada. Of course the article is their property):https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2016006-eng.htmThis article from Statista gives annual immigration from 2000 to 2017. Again it is their property:https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigrants-in-canada/And here is an interesting table from Statistics Canada related to cultural diversity, about the country of birth of immigrants to Canada in 2016:https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/171025/t002b-eng.htmThis pattern has been in place for some years now. The three giants in terms of immigration to Canada are the Republic of the Philippines, India and the People's Republic of China. This is rather in contrast with some public and American perceptions that most immigration to Canada consists of very angry Muslim people.Having had to work on immigration to Canada most of my adult life I would put it this way, the perceptions that Canadians have about immigration are a battle between what are sometimes stupifyingly dull administrative, budgetary and legal issues and the public thirst (Yes, even Canadians can have a public thirst every so often.) for emotions, drama, bright strokes and bold declamations. In fact, the federal and provincial immigration selection systems, for a variety of reasons, tend to be favourable to Filipinos. However, who can terrorize the Canadian public with the spectre of an enormous mob of Filipinos descending on us. So, if they descended, what would they do? Would they further increase respectful, compassionate care in our nursing homes for the elderly, require us to eat excellent dishes based on rice noodles, or remind other Roman Catholics that they really ought to attend mass on a regular basis?The Levels TrapWhen I started my visa officer career, in 1978, Canada had no legally established immigration levels. In those days the predecessor of the modern Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) was kind of a closed shop, even more then it is nowadays. Those of us punching out immigration visas at Canada's various visa offices here and there would have occasional paranoia fits about our country being overwhelmed by all this caseload. However, in reality, our headquarters had things well in hand. Our headquarters would control the number of immigration visas that were issued by any given visa office by parcelling out the visa officers. As I recall, they used to have a formula, one thousand permanent resident visas per year per officer. The working environment was very crack the whip, so just watch us of we didn't get the job done.And, on what criteria did headquarters parcel? Sometimes, what we proudly used to call “corridor chat” used to suffice. It was understood that some nationalities were nicer than others and some needed a firm and limiting administrative hand. There was no need to write all these feelings down.However, this set up was pushing its luck. After the mid 1980's shut down crunch, what is now IRCC made several more attempts to shut down applications already in process. They got taken to the courts, which turned out to be the cleaners. The courts established a legal principle. Immigrants had to be processed according to the selection rules in effect on the date they submitted their application. You couldn't do a retroactive shut down if you changed the rules later or, if the Canadian economy went for one of its periodic dives, and you didn't want them anymore. In the meantime, the taxpayers of Canada had to pay high legal fees and then for emergency processing arrangements when Citizenship and Immigration found out they couldn't get away with it.IRCC has found various ways to chip away against those troublesome court rulings since then. However, the introduction of annual immigration levels was meant to be the master controller. Canada would only admit so many immigrants per year, no matter what. Concerning where they came from, Canada supposedly has universal selection requirements, although a little bit of magic still goes on.And, the whole, costly immigration processing system, with its thousands of employees, runs off of those levels. Treasury Board reluctantly disburses an annual budget to IRCC to run its very sizable physical and human resources plant. There are ten provincial governments all paying for their annual immigration selection programmes. The numbers they are allowed are doled out to them by the federal government from out of the annual immigration level.It's a trap though. The federal Minister responsible for Immigration is required by law to announce the annual immigration level for the next calendar year around the end of October the year before. And, there is is still plenty of whip cracking going on. Keeping visa officers and their families at Canadian missions overseas is infuriatingly costly, from the point of view of Treasury Board. So, now, a lot of the processing now gets done online, from a heavily-staffed processing centre, buried in downtown Ottawa. No, we don't actually see the immigrants anymore, but one thing I learned early on in my visa processing life is that processing volume always trumps quality. That annual level will be kept high, no matter hell, high water, Donald Trump or the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China. The processing machine has been built up around those levels and its senior managers get good paySo, Canada never killed itself with immigration. If it had, there wouldn't be that processing centre, buried somewhere in the profound winter sadness and gloom of our nation's capital. Somebody has to work in the elder care homes of Canada, particularly as they bulge out under the burden of us aging, increasingly frail baby boomers. Someone has to give you your bag of Double Doubles and Timbits at your Tim Horton drive through, even if they speak with an accent redolent of downtown Manila. We even have the occasional high-end AI fill, that even the most patriotic high tech firm can not resource from Canada's labour market.However, the levels system is a lock in. It is not sensitive to economic changes during the processing year. No federal government will make drastic changes from one annual immigration level to the next. because it would look like they made a mistake the year before. And, a whole lot of money gets spent, and there are a lot of good jobs that rely on keeping those levels high, and gradually increasing them.When Would Immigration Have Been Too Much?Should we have started in the 1890's and stopped the “men in sheepskin coats” from heading out to Winnipeg and pushing on right up to Northern Alberta? In all likelihood Winnipeg would have been a small town in Northern North Dakota and much of the Prairies would have been under the administration of the United States Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management. You were not going to get enough British people to freeze to death in the blizzard.And what about the Great Italian-Greek-Portuguese-Maltese immigration boom that filled up Toronto in the 1950's? Without their assistance, would it still be Toronto the Good? (That's a really good argument to enjoy the multiple selection of pastas, feta cheese and fados, and not complain because the place was no longer a scaled up Guelph!)And here is a slightly more complex one. When these South European places entered the European Union, they lost the big push to emigrate. That was Canada's last available supply of good old-fashioned white immigrants. Was Canada in a position to say, we are shutting it down now, immigration over? Canada had twenty-two million people in 1971. This Statistics Canada chart shows what had happened to the Canadian birth rate by 1971:https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2014002-eng.htmIt had crashed. It had been almost four kids per woman in 1961. By 1971, it had dropped like a stone to about 1.8, below the replacement level.We should remember, in 1971, metro Calgary had a population of a bit more than 400,000, metro Edmonton about 440,000, Ottawa-Gatineau about 472,000 and Greater Vancouver around 1,000,000. Now the Census Metropolitan Areas of Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa are around 1,400,000 and Greater Vancouver around 2,500,000. Would we have been better off if the populations were nowadays, say, 700,000 and 1,500,000? Would they all be, “the good”?All This CultureLet us return to the Republic of the Philippines and mix in Beijing and a generous shot of New Delhi. Throw in some Jamaica, some Ghana, some Poland, some Vietnam, and yes a dash of Karachi, Tehran and Beirut.No, we are not meant to say Canada is a melting pot. We are supposed to say the politically correct “mosaic”. However, what would happen if you measured Canada on a melting to mosaic continuum? Say a Conservative Party government imposed that good, old old stock Canadian values test, on the second generationers. We lack those types of numbers but I think we would find Canada melting together more than we thought.And, the topping on this fondue is a spicy mix of political correctness, feminism, beer commercials for NHL hockey games, and metric tons and tons of American entertainment product. And, nowadays, there is Trumpophobia for Canadians of all ethnocultural and racial origins, coast to coast.Compared to this, Canadian ethnicity is small potatoes. Nobody in authority is demanding that I learn Tagalog, Mandarin or Punjabi. You have yet to see a Taoist holiday replace Christmas. There isn't an urban reserve for anybody but First Nations people, who owned the land in the first place. I have yet to see a provincial Department of Education replace their English and French curricula with Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian, Thai, Urdu, Farsi, Swahili or Portuguese.I don't Canada's think supposed mainstream is being effected very much by cultural diversity at all, although it is nice to have a good selection of restaurants. Rather, the main cultural diversity in English-speaking Canada nowadays seems to be Alberta versus everybody else. Personally, I think my Winnipeg will always be unique and above. I guess you could also talk about Muskoka cottage country in the summer and young people misbehaving at Whistler.After World War II Canada got rebuilt by American investment and corporate bankers in Toronto, combined with the elite that created the modern Canadian, politically correct welfare state. The annual immigration levels have locked in our immigration volumes, and in a not desirable way. That's not good but, probably not critical to Canada, just more poor quality government administration.When we focus in on ethnicity, we are distracting ourselves. And since Canada is visibly not dead from a lot of immigration, and, in the balance, maybe needed it, that is not a real issue either.Martin Levine

"Marijuana Break" Newsletter.Jersey Medical Marijuana License ProcessUp until early 2018, there were only 500 or so physicians on the registry. However, the number has swelled in recent times, and you can click here to find a doctor that is registered with the state’s marijuana program. At the time of writing, there are only six registered dispensaries in New Jersey:•Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair.•Breakwater Treatment & Wellness in Cranbury.•Harmony Dispensary in Secaucus.•Curaleaf NJ in Bellmawr.•Compassionate Care Foundation in Egg Harbor Township.•Garden State Dispensary in Woodbridge.The program hopes to roll out its new upgraded portal which will allow you to sign up using a mobile device. MMJ cardholders are not allowed to grow marijuana at home, and you can only register with one Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) although this may change in the future.Medical marijuana is packaged in quarter or half ounce denominations, and you are not allowed to purchase more than two ounces per 30 days. After your 30, 60, or 90-day certification expires, you must make an appoint with your physician so they can re-assess your condition. Finally, patient registration is valid for two years.The medical marijuana law in New Jersey remains complicated, over nine years since Governor Jon Corzine made medicinal weed legal on his final day in office. On that day – January 18, 2010 – Corzine signed the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act into law. It allowed medical cannabis for individuals with one of a select group of illnesses.In 2011, the state was deemed to have the strictest medical marijuana law of the 16 states that had legalized pot to that point. The first dispensary didn’t open in New Jersey until December 2012. There are now just six dispensaries, but in 2017, the state’s Medicinal Marijuana Review Panel increased the list of qualifying conditions.There are still issues regarding sales tax, and negotiations to legalize weed recreationally are ongoing, but legislative gridlock seems certain to keep things on hold for several more years. At least it is slightly easier to get an MMJ card in New Jersey, and this guide shows you how.The Definitive Guide on How to Get a Medical Marijuana Card in New JerseyBefore we begin, it is important to note that patients must be at least 18 years of age and have proof of ID which shows they are a New Jersey resident. Minors can also attain an MMJ card but need a designated legal guardian and written confirmation from a pediatrician and a psychiatrist. You also need to have one of the qualifying conditions listed below.Step 1 – Visit a PhysicianThe first step on what can be a lengthy and expensive mission is to visit a doctor registered with the New Jersey Department of Health. This physician will perform your marijuana evaluation and decide if you warrant a written recommendation. Interestingly, these recommendations are not called ‘prescriptions’ because that is a violation of federal law.If you visit a reputable physician, this initial consultation could last up to an hour. The doctor will take a detailed medical history, review your medical records, perform a physical exam, and discuss whether you qualify for medical marijuana under state law. Be prepared to provide a urine sample because the doctor wants to see if you are using any other drugs.When you visit the doctor, make sure you bring your complete medical records, a driver’s license or another form of photo ID, and proof of residency. Typically, your physician will accept a utility bill dated within the last 90 days or any correspondence with the state’s Tax Office or the IRS within the last 12 months.Step 2 – Follow-Up VisitNew Jersey is different from many states because prospective patients must embark on a follow-up visit which is usually scheduled one week from your first meeting. The doctor reviews the test results and establishes the correct monthly dose of weed. Normally, this ranges from half an ounce to two ounces, but it varies depending on the patient.Expect your physician to ask you if you have ever used cannabis before. It is helpful to know this information because if you are a novice, there is no way of telling how marijuana will affect you.Step 3 – Register with the New Jersey Medical Marijuana ProgramIn New Jersey, you need to have a bona fide relationship with the physician before he/she can provide you with a written recommendation. Once you have a doctor’s certification, it is time to register with the state medical marijuana program. Fill in the required information which is highlighted with a red asterisk.You need to upload the following documents:•Patient photograph; and a photo of your caregiver if applicable.•Government issued ID such as a driving license or a New Jersey County ID card.•Proof of current state residency such as a utility bill in the last 90 days. The program accepts gas, electric, cellphone, sewer, or cable bills.•Proof of government assistance such as Social Security Disability benefits if applicable.•You may also need to download the caregiver criminal background check form.The Program will review your application and documentation and respond via email. You should receive instructions on completing the application, and once you are notified of the fee amount, you can go back to the registry’s homepage and click on payment. If your application is denied, you will receive instructions on how to amend the application but will receive no refund.You should receive your MMJ card in 2-3 weeks. Only then can you visit a dispensary and purchase weed.Step 4 – Visit Your Physician AgainOnce you begin using cannabis, you must arrange for another follow-up doctor’s visit. They will monitor your progress and may decide to change the dose as they would with any prescription drug. Incidentally, when you visit a dispensary for the first time, you will probably go through an orientation session which can last up to 20 minutes.The budtenders in these dispensaries are extremely helpful and can provide you with the right strain for your needs. Unfortunately, an ounce of weed in New Jersey is among the most expensive in the country. Although you can get mid-range weed for $400 an ounce, top-shelf strains can cost up to $600! You can also purchase paraphernalia such as a pipe or vape pen at these stores.What are the Qualifying Conditions Required to get a Medical Marijuana Card in New Jersey?The list of qualifying conditions has been increased. Here is an up to date list:•Anxiety•Migraine•Multiple Sclerosis•Chronic pain related to a musculoskeletal disorder or of ‘visceral’ origin•ALS•Terminal cancer•Opioid Use Disorder•Muscular dystrophy•Tourette’s Syndrome•Terminal illness•An inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn’s diseaseYou may also be eligible for an MMJ card in New Jersey if you have one of the following conditions and you have proven intolerant or resistant to conventional therapy:•Glaucoma•PTSD•Intractable skeletal, muscular spasticity•A seizure disorder including epilepsyFinally, if you have severe/chronic pain, or severe nausea/vomiting, or wasting syndrome or cachexia that comes from one of the following conditions, you may also be eligible for an MMJ card in New Jersey:•Cancer•HIV/AIDSWhat are Medical Cannabis Card Costs in New Jersey?The program fee for a patient or caregiver is $100. You may be eligible for a reduced fee of $20 if you are a military veteran, senior citizen, or if you qualify for a state or federal assistance program. The cost of the initial consultation usually ranges between $250 and $300, and you must allow for the cost of the follow-up visits.Make sure you discuss these fees with your physician before you continue your application. By the time you have registered, paid your physicians’ fees, and purchased an ounce of marijuana, you may have spent up to $1,000.Other Important Information on the New Jersey Medical Marijuana License ProcessUp until early 2018, there were only 500 or so physicians on the registry. However, the number has swelled in recent times, and you can click here to find a doctor that is registered with the state’s marijuana program. At the time of writing, there are only six registered dispensaries in New Jersey:•Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair.•Breakwater Treatment & Wellness in Cranbury.•Harmony Dispensary in Secaucus.•Curaleaf NJ in Bellmawr.•Compassionate Care Foundation in Egg Harbor Township.•Garden State Dispensary in Woodbridge.The program hopes to roll out its new upgraded portal which will allow you to sign up using a mobile device. MMJ cardholders are not allowed to grow marijuana at home, and you can only register with one Alternative Treatment Center (ATC) although this may change in the future.Medical marijuana is packaged in quarter or half ounce denominations, and you are not allowed to purchase more than two ounces per 30 days. After your 30, 60, or 90-day certification expires, you must make an appoint with your physician so they can re-assess your condition. Finally, patient registration is valid for two years.

It's tough to make generalizations about rich people or any type of people, because everyone is so different. In other words, individuals can be very different from the average rich person. However...Psychology studies demonstrate that rich people are more likely to feel more entitled and self absorbed.Recent studies show, for example, that wealthier people are more likely to cut people off in traffic and to behave unethically in simulated business and charity scenarios.In five different experiments involving several hundred undergraduates and 100 adults recruited from online communities, the researchers found higher levels of both narcissism and entitlement among those of higher income and social class.The study, which was published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, showed that, when asked to visually depict themselves as circles, with size indicating relative importance, richer people picked larger circles for themselves and smaller ones for others. Another experiment found that they also looked in the mirror more frequently.The wealthier participants were also more likely to agree with statements such as “I honestly feel I’m just more deserving than other people” and place themselves higher on a self-assessed “class ladder” that indicated increasing levels of income, education and job prestige.Those with more highly educated and wealthier parents remained higher in their self-reported entitlement and narcissistic characteristics. [1][2]Rich people are more likely to behave unethically.In a series of experiments — involving everything from dangerous driving to lying in job negotiations and cheating to get a prize — researchers found that, across the board, richer people behaved worse.In the first two experiments, University of California, Berkeley, psychologists positioned observers at San Francisco intersections to watch for drivers who didn’t wait their turn at lights or yield for pedestrians. The researchers noted the make, age and appearance of cars — a marker for the drivers’ socioeconomic status — as well as the drivers’ gender and approximate age.Drivers in fancy cars were also three times more likely than those in beaters to threaten pedestrians by failing to yield when the walkers had the right of way at a crosswalk.The drivers of the most expensive vehicles were four times more likely to cut off drivers of lower status vehiclesIn one study, participants reported their own socioeconomic status and then read descriptions of people stealing or benefiting from things to which they were not entitled. When asked how likely they would be to engage in similar behavior, the richest of 105 undergraduates were more likely admit that they would do so, compared with those from middle-class or lower-class backgrounds. Of course, this finding could simply reflect the fact that the rich are more likely to get away with such things — and therefore may feel more comfortable admitting it — so the researchers also studied actual behavior.those who were wealthier were more likely to lie in a simulated job interview scenario. The participants — acting as managers — were told that their hypothetical applicants would be willing to take a lower salary in exchange for job security. The applicants wanted a two-year contract position, but the managers knew that the available job would last only six months before being eliminated — and that they could get a bonus for negotiating a lower salary. People of high social class were more likely to lie to the job seekers, researchers found.Researchers recruited 195 adults on Craigslist, queried them about their backgrounds and greedy attitudes, and then had them play a computerized dice game in which higher rolled scores meant a higher chance of winning $50. Unbeknownst to them, the computer always generated the same score: 12. People who believed greed was good were more likely to cheat and report inflated scores of 15 or higher.[3,4]A few potential explanations were offered. One author opines that "rich people tended to take advantage of others primarily because they saw selfish and greedy behavior as acceptable."[3][4] Some other explanations are offered.Lower-class individuals are more likely to spend time taking care of others (Argyle, 1994), and they are more embedded in social networks that depend on mutual aid (Lamont, 2000; Piff, Stancato, Martinez, Kraus, & Keltner, 2012). By contrast, upper-class individuals prioritize independence from others: They are less motivated than lower-class individuals to build social relationships (Kraus & Keltner, 2009) and instead seek to differentiate themselves from others (Stephens et al., 2007).[2]Rich people are likely to feel less empathy:A growing body of recent research shows that people with the most social power pay scant attention to those with little such power. This tuning out has been observed, for instance, with strangers in a mere five-minute get-acquainted session, where the more powerful person shows fewer signals of paying attention, like nodding or laughing. Higher-status people are also more likely to express disregard, through facial expressions, and are more likely to take over the conversation and interrupt or look past the other speaker.In 2008, social psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley, studied pairs of strangers telling one another about difficulties they had been through, like a divorce or death of a loved one. The researchers found that the differential expressed itself in the playing down of suffering. The more powerful were less compassionate toward the hardships described by the less powerful.Mr. Keltner suggests that, in general, we focus the most on those we value most. While the wealthy can hire help, those with few material assets are more likely to value their social assets: like the neighbor who will keep an eye on your child from the time she gets home from school until the time you get home from work. The financial difference ends up creating a behavioral difference. Poor people are better attuned to interpersonal relations — with those of the same strata, and the more powerful — than the rich are, because they have to be.While Mr. Keltner’s research finds that the poor, compared with the wealthy, have keenly attuned interpersonal attention in all directions, in general, those with the most power in society seem to pay particularly little attention to those with the least power. To be sure, high-status people do attend to those of equal rank — but not as well as those low of status do.[5][1] Wealthy Selfies: How Being Rich Increases Narcissism | TIME.com[2] Wealth and the Inflated Self / Wealth and the Inflated Self[3] Why the Rich Are Less Ethical: They See Greed as Good | TIME.com[[4] Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior / Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior[5] Rich People Just Care Less