There’s no denying I’m intrigued by this man’s classic rags\u002Dto\u002Driches immigrant story
To my way of thinking, Dhillon is a guy with unique insight into how Canadians can deploy immigration policy to make our country better.Of course, I’m interested in Mainstreet’s entrepreneurial business strategy ; the company’s much-lauded profitability track record ; and the blue sky potential in the land underneath Mainstreet’s clusters of smaller apartment buildings in downtowns across western Canada.
To be clear, it’s not as if our immigration policies are failing us. Officially, Canada’s population surpassed 40 million people as of June 16. And much of that growth is attributable to in-migration. Our goals are ambitious: Canada aims to welcome 460,000 newcomers in 2023, 485,000 in 2024, and half a million in 2025. And 2021 census data shows that nearly one in four Canadians is a landed immigrant or permanent resident .
When Dhillon’s father relocated their family from Liberia to Canada in the mid 1970s, he was looking for security. “After a civil war, with guns shooting in the air, and you lose everything,” my father was attracted to the safest country in the world, Canada, Dhillon says.Article content “We hear about tech startups; it’s a new buzzword and that’s all it is,” Dhillon laments. “How about the thousands of other industries where there are vacuums — which used to be places where immigrants would take off? Like the Italian bricklayer who came after World War Two and then became a house builder?” There are pockets of small enterprise — you find it in northeast Calgary, in Chinatown, Dhillon agrees, “but across Canada, there’s a vacuum, and we’re a decade too late.
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