The Price We Are Paying

Matua Kahurangi
Just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes.

Western governments have found the perfect shield against accountability. Flood a country with people, then label anyone who notices a racist. It is lazy, dishonest, and it is now failing in real time.

New Zealand is living it. Canada is drowning in it.

Indian mass immigration has become the preferred policy lever for governments that refuse to do the hard work of building productivity, training locals, or investing properly in infrastructure. Instead, they import people at scale and call it growth, while everyday citizens are told to be quiet and thankful.

Scroll X for five minutes and the evidence is impossible to ignore. Canada is flooded with videos from locals who no longer recognise their cities. Housing is gone. Rents are exploding. Wages are crushed. Public services are overwhelmed. Social cohesion is fraying. Yet the intake continues, larger each year, faster than communities can absorb.

New Zealand is simply Canada on a delay.

We are told Indian immigration fills skills shortages, yet somehow the shortages never end. We are told it boosts the economy, yet living costs keep rising and quality of life keeps falling. We are told it is essential, yet no one can explain why productivity remains weak while population growth explodes.

This is not organic migration. This is industrial scale population replacement driven by visa factories, low wage business models, and politicians who want short-term economic sugar hits without long-term responsibility.

Indians did not create this mess. Indian migrants are responding to incentives deliberately engineered by Western governments. The responsibility sits with policymakers who opened the gates without limits, planning or honesty.

The real damage is not just economic. It is cultural and social. When immigration happens too fast, shared norms erode. When neighbourhoods change overnight, trust disappears. When people feel like strangers in their own country, resentment grows. Pretending this is not happening does not make it go away. It makes it worse.

Canada proves what happens when governments refuse to pull the brake. Temporary visas quietly become permanent. Student visas turn into backdoor residency. Entire industries become dependent on Indian labour, not because it is skilled, but because it is cheaper and more compliant.

New Zealand is walking the same path, eyes wide open, ears closed.

Criticising Indian mass immigration is not racism. It is a rejection of reckless scale, speed and denial. A country is not an Excel spreadsheet. It is a shared way of life. Once that is broken, no amount of GDP graphs will put it back together.

Canada is not an outlier. It is a warning. And unless New Zealand grows a spine and resets its immigration settings to something sane, sustainable and fair, we will soon be watching our own collapse play out on social media, just like they are now.

This is not hate. It is reality. And reality does not care how uncomfortable it makes politicians feel.

This article was originally published on the author’s Substack.