clipped from: www.canada.com   
Baffling, eh? The middle-of-the-pack Canadian wage-earner was paid less in 2005 than in 1980 -- after, like belts or suspenders, adjustment for inflation.
Dollars added since 1980 were simply currency junk food: they expanded the waistline. But they shrunk budgetary muscle.
StatsCanada also reported that since 1980 immigrants have sharply lower incomes than those before 1980

Let me help by stating the obvious. In recent decades immigration, especially in British Columbia, has massively swung away from Europe to the less-developed (awful phrase) world like China, South Asia, Iran -- people whose language and very alphabets are utterly dissimilar, and whose cultures and religions are not only unlike but in some cases hostile to the values and norms of the West, especially of what brilliant writer Mark Steyn (now there's a man embroiled in the new, Proper Canada's grim Star Chambers and kangaroo courts) calls the Anglosphere, the global community of English-speaking people.