Temporary Workers Amount to Nearly 19 Percent of Canada’s Private Sector Workforce

The number of foreign workers in Canada on temporary permits is equivalent to 18.5 percent of the country’s private sector workforce, according to newly released figures from Canada’s immigration department.

The department counted 3,049,277 non-permanent residents in Canada as of Jan. 1, including more than 129,000 with expired work permits, according to a briefing note first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter. The figure represents 18.5 percent of the private sector workforce, which totalled 16.4 million workers, including self-employed Canadians in January, according to the Labour Force Survey released by Statistics Canada.

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In Doug Ford’s World This Is The Perfect Time To Grant Work Permits To 100K So-Called Asylum Seekers

Ontario mortgage delinquencies on the rise and could climb higher still, experts warn

Mortgage delinquencies appear to be on the rise in both Ontario and the Greater Toronto Area and the numbers could get worse as Canada navigates choppy economic waters, experts say.

According to data prepared for the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) by Equifax Canada, mortgage delinquencies rose to 0.22 per cent in Ontario for the first quarter of this year. That’s up from 0.15 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 and 0.09 per cent in the first quarter of 2023.

In Toronto, the mortgage delinquency rate hit 0.23 per cent for the first quarter of 2025. That compares to 0.14 per cent for the first quarter of 2024 and 0.08 per cent for the first quarter of 2023.

The same cabal that jacked immigration rates to unprecedented levels will always find a way to destroy your economic and social well being.

They want you poor and fearful, one step away from being homeless and willing to work for the cheapest wage possible.

Ford, Carney and his pal Wiseman of Century Initiative infamy are working hard to ensure the Corporate class has ready access to slaves.

The right answer is mass deportation.


Update: Ford claims asylum seekers wait 2 years for work permits. Feds say it’s actually 45 days

The federal government is pushing back against Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s claim it takes two years for an asylum seeker to be given the right to work in Canada, saying the average processing time is actually less than two months.

Ford made the claim on Wednesday afternoon at the end of a three-day leaders’ summit in Huntsville, Ont., where the country’s premiers agreed to look at ways to use their constitutional powers to hand out work permits.

Who’s zoomin who?

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Ford & Fellow Premiers Push Feds For Increased Immigration

Premiers push for more power over immigration as Ford takes aim at federal minister

Premiers say they are taking more control over immigration as Ontario Premier Doug Ford criticized the federal immigration minister and said he would be issuing his own work permits in the province.

At the conclusion of the three-day premiers’ meeting on Wednesday, the provincial and territorial leaders called for an increase to economic immigration levels to meet their labour needs and said they would use powers under the constitution to issue work permits, criticizing the federal government for moving too slowly.

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Over 3 million temporary residents now in Canada, including 129,000 with expired permits

Canada’s population of temporary residents has surpassed 3 million, making up 18.5% of the country’s private sector workforce, according to a newly released federal briefing.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the figures, which include more than 129,000 individuals now living in the country without valid permits, were outlined in a May 1 memo from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

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CHARLEBOIS: Time for Canadians to serve themselves

Crushed a generation’s dreams

The federal government’s recent overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) for food service has prompted predictable outcry from restaurant operators.

As of January 2025, new caps limit TFWs to just 10% of a food service business’s workforce — down from 20% or more in recent years — and shorten work permits from two years to one. But this policy shift is not punitive. It reflects an overdue economic recalibration.

Put plainly, the TFWP in food service has run its course.

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Geoff Russ: The data is in — fewer newcomers in Canada means lower rent

For too long, Canadians have been misled about the benefits of largely unchecked immigration growth.

Between 2016 and 2023, an average of 612,000 people were admitted annually to Canada on a permanent and temporary basis. There were assurances made that it was all beneficial, while the consequences for housing, wages, or jobs were downplayed.

While in the past a well managed immigration system has been good for Canada, the most recent data reveal the supposed benefits of the Liberals’ mass immigration plans were all a sham.

All immigration must cease and mass deportations instituted.

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23 Quebec business owners launch $300 million lawsuit over temporary foreign worker permits

A group of Quebec business owners have launched a $300 million lawsuit against the federal government this month, arguing they’re facing bankruptcy if Ottawa goes ahead with its plan to reduce the number of foreign workers coming into Canada.

The heads of the 23 businesses, which make everything from steel products to winter jackets and airplane parts, say temporary foreign workers are essential to stay afloat.

With Ottawa is pushing to reduce the number of permits its issues, employers are upset.


Subsidized wages for “foreign workers” paid for by tax dollars? Cost savings from never having to train new employees? There has to be a reason these captains of Industry love their slaves.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trump forcing us to admit our own economic failures

Canadians should be asking themselves why it took an American president launching a trade war against us for our federal and provincial governments to finally start addressing our economic problems they should have fixed decades ago.


Canada is a Banana Republic which is why I was never upset at Trump’s annexation jibes.

Elbows Up? More like “Heads in Ass”.

We have been taken for a ride by our “elites” who have conspired to turn Canada into a 3RD World Dumpster for their personal profit.

They should be jailed.

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Immigration grew six times faster over past decade: Study

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration levels grew six times faster over the past decade than it did from the turn of the century, says a new Fraser Institute study.

The numbers, which include temporary foreign workers and international students, are contained in a new report entitled Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns, 2000–2024.

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Canadians will see wages pick up as immigration slows, Conference Board argues

OTTAWA – The Conference Board of Canada expects wage hikes will pick up speed in the coming years as the pace of population growth slows down.

The think tank said in a new economic forecast Monday that Canada’s labour market has been “resilient” this year despite tariff pressures from the United States.

The national unemployment rate ticked up to seven per cent in May, though the Conference Board noted overall employment is still 0.3 per cent higher than it was at the end of last year.

Except immigration numbers have not really decreased.

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Joel Kotkin: The West’s immigration reckoning is here

The recent riots in Los Angeles, sparked by President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, could be a harbinger to a new era of ethnic conflict not only in the U.S. but throughout the West, including Canada.

Many leading countries for immigrants, notably in the Middle East, may have higher percentages of international migrants, but many are only there temporarily. But in Canada, Australia, and the U.S. — where the foreign born represent between 15 and 30 per cent of the total population — most come to stay, with sometimes problematic results.

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New supply management law ties the hands of our trade negotiators

After climbing down on the digital services tax, Canada is back at the table with the U.S. to negotiate the two countries’ trade relationship. Unfortunately, Canadian negotiators have a fresh problem to deal with: the recent passage of a bill through Parliament that protects supply management.

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New Federal Report Links Immigration to Rising Housing Costs

So it turns out the government of Canada just released a report — and it’s not from some conspiracy blog or partisan think tank. No, this is from the Trudeau government’s own bureaucrats at Statistics Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. What does it say? Well, it quietly admits that something many of us have known for years and were called racists, bigots, and extremists for saying out loud is actually true: mass immigration has directly caused housing prices to skyrocket in Canada.

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Canada’s youth job market slumps most among world’s major economies … thanks to Carney feeding Corporate Canada’s addiction to mass immigration & cheap foreign labour

Young Canadians are facing a labour market that has deteriorated faster than in any other major advanced economy.

Over the past two years, unemployment among 15 to 24 year-olds in Canada jumped 3.6 percentage points, the sharpest increase among the 25 largest economies in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — including the U.S., U.K. and Australia.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada’s immigration absolutists are refusing to correct course, no matter the cost

What’s the difference between an advocacy movement and a radical ideology? The Century Initiative makes an ideal case study. The group bills itself as a “national nonpartisan movement”—and perhaps it once was back in 2011, when its founders first set their minds to tripling Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. After all, there were once physicians who thought smoking was healthy.

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