In March, Washington and Ottawa agreed to close Roxham Road, the small alley in Quebec through which thousands of asylum seekers have entered Canada from the United States, bypassing customs. Nearly 40,000 people entered Canada through Roxham Road in 2022; there were a record 91,710 claimants last year.
So despite the closing, why has Canada already processed more than 80,000 applications from asylum seekers so far this year?
Statistics Canada last week released a sobering but hardly surprising study of the current state of young people in Canada. Many cannot find affordable housing, forcing 43 per cent of 20 to 29-year-olds to live with their parent(s). Nearly 40 per cent believe they can’t afford to have a child over the next three years. Others are having trouble entering the labour market, a problem shared by most youth cohorts but which seems particularly challenging today because of technology. More broadly, Statcan notes young people’s mental health has been declining steadily since 2003, with feelings of loneliness rising and attachment to community declining.
OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says immigration is almost solely responsible for the largest annual population boom Canada has seen since 1957.
The newly released data shows Canada’s population grew by more than a million people between from July 2022 to July 2023, which represents an increase of about three per cent.
Canada also saw a massive 46 per cent increase in the number of temporary residents in Canada over the same period.
The Liberal party are vicious animals.
Ottawa forecasts 1.4 million international student applications a year by 2027, document shows
The number of foreign students applying to come to Canada each year is forecast by the federal immigration department to rise to 1.4 million by 2027, an internal policy document says, which also raises concerns that such growth is “unsustainable.”
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada forecast the rapid rise in the number of foreign students in a paper last month about establishing a class of “trusted” universities and colleges, which would qualify for faster processing of international student study permits.
If Canadians were already frustrated with the Liberal government’s interventionist economic policies, which have produced miserable results to date, then the latest Parliamentary Budget Officer report on a set of floundering subsidies certainly won’t help.
The federal and Ontario governments have promised to give Stellantis-LG Energy Solutions and Volkswagen $28.2 billion to subsidize new electric vehicle battery plants. According to the PBO, it’s going to take them 20 years to break even, far more than the government’s guess of 3.3 years. If this estimate anywhere near accurate, it would make these subsidies a catastrophically bad investment.
“When I look… at the subtle but intense influence of China on Canadian institutions — parliaments, provincial governments, local governments, universities, the intellectual community, the policy community — it makes me deadly worried,” said Australian professor Clive Hamilton, author of Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World (co-authored by Mareike Ohlberg), speaking to Canada’s National Post in 2019. “I’ve met some very well-informed Canadians who aren’t sure Canada will be able to extricate itself from this situation.”
… “Most people just don’t trust food companies,” said Sylvain Charlebois, a food professor at Dalhousie University, who will take part in Monday’s meeting. “According to one of our recent surveys, 82% of Canadians believe that greed is behind higher food prices.”
The government said there have been situations where large grocers got together “to prevent smaller competitors from establishing operations nearby,” without giving specifics. A Competition Bureau report in June found that independent grocers struggle to find real estate. It also said consolidation makes it tougher for new stores to stay in business and that many independent grocers are forced to buy products from their competitors.
A plague on both their houses. Justin is spewing hot air just to look like he’s doing something and the Grocery Barons deserve contempt. Stealing bread from the mouths of children for 14 years without jail time says it all about Canada’s Crony Capitalist economy.
Eight and a half years ago, in January 2015, the Liberal Party’s 36-member caucus gathered in London, Ont. ahead of a new sitting of Parliament.
There was some reason at the time to believe their leader, Justin Trudeau, would be the next prime minister of Canada. But some of the original shine had come off Trudeau by then. And it would get worse for the Liberals before it got better.
“One of the issues we’ve got going for us, ironically, is all of these attacks and criticisms are putting him through tests that the public will watch him pass,” an adviser to Trudeau said at the time. “It’s an arc. It has a story to it.”
In theory the mass immigration & housing crisis’ alone should kill off Trudeau.
But all he needs is for his committed base to show up and a good showing by the NDP to squeak through with a minority government as happened last go round.
My theory and I do have one concerns home equity. Trudeau will bleed out support with each underwater mortgage.
If he keeps the mass immigration floodgates open we’ll never see enough homes to meet demand. Home prices will at worst stabilize at or near current levels and likely increase under this scenario. That will make a lot of home owners happy that their investment is protected.
Lots of homeowners reside in urban centers like Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa. Cities filled with homeowners who also happen to be Liberal and NDP supporters. Civil servants, teachers and other such unionistas. Cities also filled with GST cut enriched developers and real estate investors. In short the Liberal left base and their corporate cronies.
Junior won’t care if he doesn’t pick up a vote west of Toronto so long as he holds on to power.
Will Justin Trudeau’s plan to end GST on new rental buildings help tenants?
The federal government announced Thursday it will scrap GST on new rental buildings, a move the building industry calls a “game-changer.” But tenant advocates say it won’t make enough difference in a market where renters are often forced into expensive “shoebox condos.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would remove the federal sales tax on the construction of new rental apartments for the next seven years, a pledge he recycled from his 2015 campaign, as his Liberal caucus retreat in London, Ont., drew to a close.
It’s not going to help tenants. They’ll see no reduction in rental rates so long as Trudeau’s mass immigration scam is going full blast preventing supply from ever coming close to meeting demand.
All it amounts to is a sweetheart deal for developers. Expect donations to the Trudeau foundation to enjoy a bump.
Canada has no chance of building the additional millions of homes Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. projects would be needed to restore housing affordability over the next seven years, according to the chief economist of Desjardins Group.
Speaking at a panel on the current housing market crisis hosted by the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Sept. 12, Desjardins’ Jimmy Jean said it took “not seven years, not 10 years, not 15 years, but 30 years” to build the last 5.8 million homes in Canada.
This issue alone should kill Trudeau but Canada is a pretty messed up Banana republic.
I doubt his base will abandon Junior and all he needs is a good showing by the NDP to remain in power.
The “Affordability issue” may be tamped down if home owner equity is protected by the ongoing shortage. This will be especially true of eastern urban centres, traditional LPC strongholds. People vote with their wallets.
Do not expect significantly lowered immigration targets, the emerging narrative is to caution against blaming “immigrants” when a made in Canada “housing crisis” is really to blame.
The narrative implies that criticism of an extraordinarily callous mass immigration policy that stresses all of Canada’s infrastructure to the breaking point is criticism of immigrants and of course that’s racist.
In short the same old same old – Canadian citizens are labeled racist whenever they attempt to stand up for their own best interests against the UNIPARTY and their corporate cronies.
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong, a repeated target of Chinese government intimidation, told U.S. congressional hearings Tuesday that Ottawa and Washington need a co-ordinated response to Beijing’s concerted efforts to interfere in Western democracies and bullying of diaspora communities.
Mr. Chong received a rare invitation to speak to the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, an 18-member panel of Senators and House of Representatives that monitors human abuses in China and is examining Beijing’s global repression campaign.
More than half of Canadians want the federal government to accept fewer immigrants than it is planning for in 2023, a new poll shows – a rise from one in three in March.
The poll also found that 55 per cent of Canadians want Canada to accept fewer international students than the 900,000 expected by the government this year.
A Nanos poll for The Globe and Mail found a rise of almost 20 percentage points in the past six months in the number of Canadians who think this country should accept fewer immigrants than Ottawa’s 2023 target of 465,000.
The pain inflicted on many Canadians by the out-of-control housing market has escalated to new levels, as has the desire to pin the blame on someone.
At the top of that list, according to a recent Leger poll, is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. When asked which level of government should be assigned the most blame when it comes to housing, 40 per cent of those surveyed pointed at Ottawa; 32 per cent blamed their provincial leaders; 22 per cent weren’t sure who was at fault; only 6 per cent called out their local city council.
There would be no housing shortage had Trudeau not callously opened the immigration floodgates.
The media narrative however is to gloss over the role of mass immigration in this fiasco to protect the interests of the Corporate class.
Is Canada underestimating the cost of living for international students?
The Canadian government is likely severely underestimating the cost of living for international students when weighing if they can support themselves financially, a new survey suggests.
According to a recent survey by the Daily Bread food bank, which was released on Wednesday, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s estimated living expense used during the application process is nearly half of what a student in Toronto typically spends.
It’s just another leg of Trudeau’s mass immigration scam.
QUEBEC CITY—Conservative MP Michael Chong, twice the target of alleged Chinese state interference, will make the case to American legislators Tuesday that more international co-operation is urgently required to thwart Beijing’s efforts to meddle in Western democracies.
His top-line message: If influence operations go unchecked, they will threaten economic prosperity, undermine public confidence in democracy and place social cohesion at risk.
