Canada’s Corporate Welfare Class

Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, economists warn

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s aim to reduce immigration to “sustainable levels” will be achievable only on paper unless changes are brought in to ensure that Canada doesn’t continue to undercount the number of non-permanent residents living here, economists warn.

Mr. Carney, at his first press conference after the election, pledged to cap the total number of temporary workers and international students at less than 5 per cent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027.

For years, Canada’s top telecom providers rode a wave of high immigration, collectively adding hundreds of thousands of new mobile phone subscribers most quarters. Those days are over.

Canada’s three biggest wireless firms — BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. — all cited tighter immigration rules when explaining to investors over the past two quarters why subscriber growth has slowed. The trio recorded fewer than 54,000 net new mobile subscribers in the first quarter, the lowest number in four years.

Believe nothing from corporate Canada or the Liberal gov’t on immigration.

To successfully fight Trump, Canada needs one thing: more Canadians

Time discovers truth.

In this case, it’s a brutal one.

The federal government’s decision to cut immigration targets by 21 per cent in 2025 and 24 per cent in 2026 was a grave mistake. Alarmingly, the consequences are rearing their ugly head at the worst possible time.

By reducing immigration levels, Canada is facing the economic fight of our lives with one arm tied behind our back. This is a moment when we should be projecting strength and growth — yet, instead, we have chosen to shrink. And unfortunately for us, this policy shift is occurring at the same time as another major demographic headwind: the retirement of five million Canadians by the end of the decade.

The author is a corporate shill employed by the Century initiative a lobby group working hard to make the Great Replacement a reality.

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Canada’s international student boom changed Brampton forever. As the program scales back dramatically, a strained community tries to adapt

Several times a week, Sukhman Kaur takes two buses from her basement apartment in Brampton through Mississauga to get to Toronto, where she attends George Brown College.

The 22-year-old, who is studying culinary management, says when she moved to Canada from India in December 2023 as an international student, she already knew that despite studying in Toronto, she would likely end up living in Brampton.

“The main reason I live here is because rent is lower than Toronto, but also lots of our community members live here, too,” said Kaur, speaking from the site in Brampton where former international students were protesting federal policy changes that have left them at risk of deportation. After several months, the protest ended last week. “There are also lots of industrial areas, and more part-time jobs for us who need to work to manage our expenses.”

This says stay away from Canada’s urban centres.

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— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) January 25, 2025

In Canada, 2024 may eventually be remembered as the year of Milton Friedman’s revenge. Late in his life, the American sage of free markets said on a couple of different occasions that immigration was good, and the mass immigration to the New World of the early 20th century was especially good, but that radically open borders are incompatible with large contemporary welfare states. This may strike many as an uncontroversial claim, but Friedman has never been totally forgiven by radical open-borders libertarians who otherwise venerate him.

We need mass deportations of illegals and remigration of asylum seekers and Islamists.