Canada’s Corporate Welfare Class

Demand for temporary foreign workers across Canada continued to rise last year, and experts don’t expect that to stop anytime soon — despite restrictions to the program introduced in September.

Third-quarter numbers from 2024, the most recent data available, show Canada approved 50,971 temporary foreign worker (TFW) positions July through September, up from 50,059 during the same period in 2023, according to figures from Employment and Social Development Canada.

He is intent on causing as much damage as possible to Canada before he is forced out. He and his Crony Capitalist thieves should be jailed.

Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is investigating the Alberta-based recruiter who was involved in bringing in scores of temporary foreign workers to staff low-wage jobs at Canadian Tire stores across Canada.

A ministry spokesperson told The Globe and Mail in an e-mail that it is conducting an open investigation into Allison Jones, the owner of a recruiting agency and an immigration consulting agency in St. Albert, outside of Edmonton. It did not provide any additional details about the probe.

Ms. Jones is a popular recruiter among franchisees of the Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons chains, helping franchise owners fill low-wage positions in their outlets with labour from abroad.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller introduced new regulations this week allowing foreign students to work full-time during academic breaks, a move his department admits could increase competition for Canadian workers, particularly young people seeking entry-level or summer jobs.

“This may result in increased competition for Canadian workers,” the Department of Immigration stated in a Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement.

Colleges and universities face job cuts, deficits amid international student cap

Ontario’s colleges and universities say the federal government’s cap on international students is taking a toll on the higher education sector as some schools face growing deficits, layoffs and, in at least one case, a temporary campus closure.

St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ont., said it has eliminated 30 administrative and support positions and warned of further job cuts after its foreign student enrolment dropped by 50 per cent.

President and CEO Glenn Vollebregt said the college is participating in a provincewide efficiency review that is expected to conclude early next year and as that unfolds, “SLC cannot guarantee that there will be no further layoffs.”

“This may result in increased competition for Canadian workers.”
— @CitImmCanada

PODCAST: @MarcMillerVM reneges on promise to limit work hours for foreign students.

“It’ll cost Canadian students entry level jobs. The feds know it and they don’t care.”https://t.co/94Bc2WPySd pic.twitter.com/3ekzqL9kls

— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) November 21, 2024

Feds want $411 million to cover refugee health care as the number of new arrivals soars

The federal government is asking Parliament to approve hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending to cover the health-care costs of eligible refugees and asylum seekers — a budget line item that has soared in recent years as the number of these newcomers reached record highs.

The Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP) is designed to cover migrants who don’t yet qualify for provincial or territorial medicare. By removing some barriers to health care, the program makes it easier for refugees — many of them fleeing conflict or persecution abroad — to get the care they need on arrival.

… One expected route people appear to be making is asylum claims, a.k.a. refugee claims. Canada saw 133k refugee claims made as of September year to date (YTD), up 38% from last year. More so, 63.9% of those claims were filed at inland offices, meaning those making a claim were already in the country. Inland filings hover around 50% of total annual claims in previous years, so these filings are a large part of the soaring claims.

One segment of temporary residents, international students, saw a big jump recently. According to an analysis in the Globe, about 13.7k of this year’s refugee claims YTD were people on study permits. At 4.5x the average volume seen in prior years, this volume is unheard of in Canada.

According to a government document circulated online on Monday, people seeking asylum in Canada can receive $224 per day to cover housing and food while waiting for application processing — that’s $81,760 per year.

Claimants in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) operated hotels, regardless of how they enter Canada, are provided with accommodations and meals once they are relocated, says the document dated March 14, noting the average cost per room across all sites is $140 per night. The average cost per day for meals is $84.

Immigrants sick of being scapegoated plan one-day strike Dec. 18

This year “we’ve seen an aggressive shift against the temporary migrant in Canada, whether student, refugee, temporary worker, with numerous migration restrictions from one day to the next that are creating greater precariousness for migrant workers,” Immigrant Workers Centre organizer Hector Salamanca told reporters.

The Grift is over.

New from Pierre Poilievre on Trudeau’s deliberate breaking of immigration.

More of this. pic.twitter.com/U5C0kltS4z

— National Citizens Coalition (@NatCitizens) November 17, 2024

Maria Alfaro has built a life in Canada with two hard-earned postgraduation diplomas in human resources and organizational management.

Since arriving here more than five years ago, the former international student from El Salvador has made new friends, joined a church and worked as an administrative assistant at a Toronto law firm.

Lately she is feeling deflated as the window of her Canadian dream is closing and her days in the country are numbered.

Not bloody likely, the Trudeau government has already lost track of an earlier cohort of 1 Million temporary residents: A million more non-permanent residents live in Canada than official figures say, ministers told

And this is why you can’t trust the Liberal Party’s CBC propaganda … Liberal government’s immigration plan will cut housing gap almost in half, report says

Since we're playing blame games today, here's a clip from June 24, 2021 where 3 leaders of @CI2100 argue that Feds should expand economic-class PR pathways to low-skill workers to make it easier for employers to recruit temporary foreign workers without needing to raise wages. pic.twitter.com/IYBWimTasF

— Mikal Skuterud (@mikalskuterud) November 11, 2024

Ottawa is going to slash the number of new permanent residents welcomed to the country by 21 per cent to 395,000 next year amid a growing sentiment among Canadians that there’s too much immigration.

Last November, in response to the affordable housing crisis and rising cost of living, Immigration Minister Marc Miller put a brake on further increases of the permanent resident numbers and set a target of 500,000 for 2025 and 2026.

The damage is done. Housing crisis, depressed wages, depressed GDP, inaccessible public services, social strife from incompatible cultures, all this will be Trudeau’s legacy.

It will take years for Canada to dig itself out of the mess Trudeau’s Liberal Party created. I am doubtful it can.