Federal refugee employment program faces ‘extremely long, ballooning wait times’

Instead of waiting months, a federal program is now taking years to process the applications of refugees who are living overseas and have a job waiting for them in Canada.

As a result, some Canadian businesses are unable to fill positions, while skilled refugees are also in limbo and risk exploitation, arrest or detention.

In 2018, the federal government launched the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) for employers facing skill shortages to recruit internationally from within refugee populations. If approved, the individual is given permanent residency and can immigrate to Canada with their spouse and children.


No Canadian citizens to train? BS.  This is just another cheap foreign labour scam.

“Canadian Business’ should not be involved in setting immigration policy.

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‘It’s a bloodbath out there:’ Tech workers forced to take ‘survival jobs’ as AI cuts swath through workforce

The technology sector was supposed to supply Vancouver’s jobs of the future. But fresh graduates and laid-off workers say job searches now take months, even years, forcing some to walk dogs or stock shelves to pay the bills

Throngs of 20-somethings dressed in blazer-jean combos and armed with paper résumes were asking senior tech leaders about how to break into the industry during a brunch networking meeting in October at the KPMG LLC office in downtown Vancouver.

It was yet another technology-focused event — from networking brunches to mentorship walks to artificial intelligence (AI) workshops — in the city that has attracted sold-out crowds of fresh graduates and young tech workers pursuing their first jobs in the age of AI.


CORPORATE CANADA’S RESPONSE: Recruit more foreign workers, especially the one’s Trump is denying visas to!

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says he sees an opening for Canada to attract global tech talent now that the United States is introducing a $100,000 fee for temporary visas for workers with specialized skills.

… According to Pew Research, about 60 per cent of H-1B visas issued since 2012 were held by people in computer-related fields.


That article quoting Carney is from a month ago. No matter what the question the answer is always “More foreign workers”.

An unanswered question is how many foreign students are among the unemployed “tech workers” discussed in the FP piece.

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Ontario and Quebec are poorer than Louisiana and 42 other states: Report

The per capita purchasing power of most American states far exceeds that of Canadian provinces, with Ontario and Quebec ranking near the bottom of the list, well behind Tennessee, Georgia, Wyoming, and North Dakota.

Ontarians are poorer on average than Americans from 43 states, including those from New Mexico, Montana, South Carolina, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Missouri, according to new Statistics Canada data and the U.S. Bureau of Economics. The data was compiled by Hub contributor and University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe, who looked at GDP per capita in 2024 for all states and provinces. Ontario ranked 48th out of the 60 states and provinces.


Be angry with Trump all you want but he didn’t land us here. The Liberal Party and their Corporate Crony’s did.

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Geoff Russ: Canada desperately needs to find its ‘we’ again

The classical liberal John Stuart Mill once warned that “free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.” He wrote that, without a “united public opinion,” representative government lacked the common sympathies and culture required for it to work properly. He added that even entities like the army would cease to identify with the people and become another branch of the state.

Liberty’s better theorists have always presumed a “we,” and Canada needs to find its “we” again.


There can be no “we” in a nation subjected to the abuse of it’s culture, values and heritage by the heinous immigration scam orchestrated by Canada’s so called “elites”.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Immigration levels plan doesn’t solve Canada’s overcapacity problem

The immigration levels plan Prime Minister Mark Carney released Tuesday addresses Canada’s population overload in the same way that partially mending a plumbing leak helps drain a flooded basement. It doesn’t.

Carney intends to give 380,000 people permanent resident status per year from 2026 to 2028 through regular streams; over the next two years, another 148,000 refugees and work permit holders will be granted PR as well — which means not everyone is going home, despite their temporary status. The government will also bring in 385,000 temporary residents (workers and study permit holders) in 2026 and 370,000 in each of the two years after. Altogether, that’s over 800,000 per year.

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Budget offers mass amnesty for asylum-seekers

As part of the federal budget’s promise to bring immigration “under control,” it is offering a one-time mass amnesty to some of the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers who have entered Canada in recent years, including by illegally crossing the U.S. border.

Starting in 2026, the budget announces that Canada will pursue a “one-time” $120.4 million program to fast-track “eligible protected persons” into permanent residency.

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Carney’s Liberals Keep 3rd World Migrant Floodgates Open

Federal budget 2025: Foreigners living in Canada will get permanent residence priority, Immigration Minister says

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says her department will prioritize foreigners living in Canada for permanent residency over people applying to settle here from abroad, as she published more details of the number of immigrants who will be allowed to settle here over the next three years.

Tuesday’s budget set out plans to freeze the number of permanent residents at 380,000 a year for three years.

But figures published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Wednesday showed that an additional 148,000 permanent residents will be added to the official targets over the next two years through one-off initiatives.


Meanwhile the Globe continues to platform Century Initiative Mass Immigration Gaslighting. Carney’s pal and advisor Wiseman likely has his hands all over this duplicity.

Ottawa’s new immigration plan risks lowering Canada’s quality of life

Lisa Lalande is chief executive of the Century Initiative.

It doesn’t take much to decode how the Liberals want Canadians to understand their new immigration strategy, unveiled in Tuesday’s budget.

The message is clear: quality over quantity. As Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne put it in his prebudget news conference, “On one hand [we’re] saying, ‘Yes, we’re getting back to sustainable levels.’ On the other hand, we’re really focusing on attracting the best and brightest.”

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Jamie Sarkonak: The secret reason Alberta teachers went on strike — skyrocketing immigration

The problem with simply cramming never-before-seen volumes of students who can’t speak English into overcrowded classrooms is that, one day, the teachers will snap. And that’s kind of what we’re seeing in Alberta — though neither the government nor the teachers’ association has made a point of trying to solve the issue.

Most kids have been locked out of schools for a whole month because, we’re told, classes are reaching 40-plus students and because classroom needs are becoming more “complex,” a euphemism for kids with disabilities and/or low English capability. Teachers have been without pay in that time, as their union didn’t build a strike fund over the past 20 years. Alas, the strike ended Tuesday with the passing of back-to-work legislation reinforced by the notwithstanding clause.


Our criminal elites should be rotting in jail for the rest of their scummy lives for having unleashed a tsunami of incompatible cultures on unsuspecting Canadians.

It was an act of pure evil and I doubt Canada will ever recover.

If the goal was to balkanize the populace and undermine society prior to breakup they have succeeded.

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The consensus on immigration is crumbling as 8 in 10 Conservatives say too many are coming in: poll

The number of Canadians who say the federal government is letting in too many immigrants has spiked in recent years — and among Conservative voters the swing is even more dramatic, according to a new poll from Environics Institute.

The Canadian consensus that adding more newcomers is generally a positive development is crumbling — and it’s largely driven by most Conservative voters moving to a starkly more negative position on the immigration system.


Only the most stupid of Lib-Left ideologues believe the lies we’ve been fed about the benefits of not being able to afford a home or access healthcare in the name of immigration for the “Greater Good”. The rest lie out of habit.

Mass immigration only benefits the corporate class and vote whoring politicians (Which is all of them with rare exception).

And living in a low trust society where our government treats us like 2nd Class citizens reminds us every day that diversity is our strength.

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Growth of food delivery platforms based on cheap, often immigrant, labour: Canadian study

Food delivery couriers and their e-bikes are fixtures in many neighbourhoods. From midday on, they gather on streets dense with restaurants. All this waiting time is unpaid. And even when orders do come in, couriers often spend more uncompensated time waiting for them, says Émile Baril, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration and Society at Concordia University in Montreal.

Pigs like this deliver food in the GTA

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Canada doesn’t like immigration anymore. This is a problem

Support for immigration in Canada has cratered. Ottawa started polling Canadians in 1996 on their views on immigration. According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, last year was the first time that a majority of Canadians believed there were too many immigrants. A more recent Nanos poll finds that 71 per cent now favour reducing their number. If the government cannot win back support for one of Canada’s flagship policies, our long-term economic growth and geopolitical influence are at risk.

Let me begin by acknowledging that record levels of immigration after the pandemic did exacerbate an already-serious housing crisis and that Canadians are justifiably concerned about taking care of who is already here when poverty rates and the number of homeless have risen. Immigration policy was mismanaged post-pandemic, and Canadians were right to be concerned.


Not were right to be concerned bur were right to rebel at the elite’s heinous replacement immigration scam.

This is just more G&M apologist prattle justifying Corporate Canada importing slaves to lower wages and profit from the shortages.

There is no such thing as a labour shortage only a wage gap between what is on offer and what citizens will accept.

Mass immigration is class war.

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How Canada got immigration right for so long – and then got it very, very wrong

Between 2021 and 2024, the United States had the highest level of immigration in its history.

That was the conclusion of a New York Times analysis published in late 2024. It estimated that over the four years of President Joe Biden’s administration, about eight million people had immigrated. This movement of people, powered by asylum claimants crossing the Mexican border, represented, said the Times, “a faster pace of arrivals than during any other period on record, including the peak years of Ellis Island, when millions of Europeans came to the United States.”

“Even after taking into account today’s larger U.S. population, the recent surge is the most rapid since at least 1850.”

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Inspections of temporary foreign worker employers in Canada have plummeted — despite a surge of workers

The number of inspections of employers hiring temporary foreign workers has plummeted over the past five years — with most conducted without inspectors ever setting foot on worksites — even as the number of migrant workers and reports of abuse have surged, according to government data obtained by the Star.

Annual inspections fell 57 per cent, from 3,365 in 2020 to 1,435 in 2024, according to Employment and Social Development Canada, the department that oversees the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program.


The Liberals always find new ways to grift.

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The food industry’s new addiction? Exploiting The TFW Scam

Canada’s food industry has become addicted to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). The numbers tell a sobering story.

In just a few months of enforcement data — from July to late September 2025 — the federal government has listed 26 food-related employers found non-compliant with federal rules governing the program. That’s everything from oyster farms to sushi restaurants, cafes, and food processors. That’s nearly 40% of all companies fined during that period.

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Canadian Tire fined $111K for violating temporary foreign worker program rules

The owner of an Etobicoke-based Canadian Tire store has been fined $111,000 by the federal government for violating the guidelines of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program.

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), the federal ministry that runs the TFW program, found branch owner Ezhil Natarajan in violation of two guidelines: that wages, work conditions or the job did not match what was listed in offers of employment and that employees were assigned to work different roles than what they were hired for.

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