LILLEY: Carney says no to scrapping TFWs but program must change
… When the Liberals implemented the changes that effectively took the guardrails off the TFW program, Canada’s national unemployment rate stood at 5.1%. That unemployment rate has steadily increased as the Liberals in Ottawa put the TFW program on steroids, opened up work permits for international students and brought in more than 190,000 asylum seekers last year, most of whom were granted work permits in short order.
The data they didn’t want you to see and the lives lost because of it.
The Covid-era proved to be a test for free speech. In the face of supposed “misinformation,” Canadian politicians, public health officials, Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, other professional regulatory bodies, and many regular Canadians showed their true stance on free speech.
Many doctors, nurses, statisticians, and other professionals who dared to challenge the official Covid narrative were silenced, censored, and threatened with the loss of their licence if they disagreed with the dominant narrative.
OTTAWA – A new report argues the rise of gig work, artificial intelligence and rapid population growth are souring job prospects for Canada’s youngest workers.
The Desjardins Economics report, released Thursday, comes as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre cites decades-high youth unemployment levels to attack an immigration program for temporary foreign workers.
Statistics Canada’s latest labour force survey shows the unemployment rate for young people aged 15 to 24 hit 14.6 per cent in July — a nearly 15-year high outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Population growth’, just another bullshit term used to gaslight Canadians.
QUEBEC — Jean Charest says Canada will eventually thank U.S. President Donald Trump for providing the country with a much-needed economic shakeup.
The Quebec premier between 2003 and 2012 told business leaders in Quebec City on Tuesday that Trump is pulling Canada out of its “lethargy” and forcing its leaders to rethink the economy.
Charest is now a member of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s council on Canada-U.S. relations.
Crony Capitalism has taken a hit in the balls. But Canada being Canada they will remain an important part of our corrupt self serving political class.
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet behind closed doors Thursday.
Carney and his ministers are in the Greater Toronto Area for two days of meetings ahead of the fall parliamentary sitting. According to the list of guest speakers, the Liberal team is hearing from Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think-tank that has shaped Republican administrations since the 1980s.
It’s the group that spearheaded Project 2025, a 900-page manifesto meant to usher in a new ultra-conservative administration supported by more than 100 like-minded organizations.
Remember this the next time the CBC cries “foreign interference” or some such nonsense when the Conservatives invite a US speaker.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Mark Carney’s Liberals to ditch the federal government’s decades-old temporary foreign worker program, taking a harder stance against a program he’s previously said should be reduced, not axed outright.
The reason why, Poilievre said Wednesday, is because of worsening youth unemployment, rather than a Liberal-induced “immigration crisis” he has claimed has weakened both the economy and security of the country.
“The individual temporary foreign workers, the workers themselves, they are not bad people. They are not the problem. They are being taken advantage of by Liberal corporate leaders who want to use them to drive down wages,” Poilievre said at a news conference in Mississauga.
Gary Anandasangaree’s phone number was found in a document seized when RCMP national security officers searched a suspected Tamil Tigers fundraising office in 2006, records obtained by Global News show.
The police search took place nine years before Anandasangaree became a Liberal Member of Parliament, during a counter-terrorism investigation into a suspected money-collection scheme by Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers.
Too much smoke, this guy has got to go.
I will share my prepared comment here: “I have reported for The Bureau a story based on a tape recording provided to me by a courageous Canadian from mainland China. This person shared a recording in which Senator Yuen Pau Woo was speaking to a group that included Premier David… https://t.co/m15PguR35k
— Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) September 3, 2025
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre confirmed his party’s intention to put pressure on companies using siginficant amount of TFW’s by “naming and shaming” them.
Speaking to reporters in Mississauga ON. on Wednesday, Poilievre and Shadow Immigration Minister Michelle Rempel Garner reiterated their opposition to the Temporary Foreign Worker program, stating that companies relying on the system prioritize corporate profits over Canadian jobs.
The former head of B.C.’s civil service under NDP Premier John Horgan is one of many people who have stepped down from a high-powered job and taken advantage of the freedom to tell us how the world really works.
Highly informed retired, or semi-retired, professionals like Don Wright are a godsend to the public, to journalists and to any government officials willing to listen to their sometimes hard but necessary truths.
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Once upon a time not so long ago, if you were a young Canadian, you could learn vital skills in an entry-level job, and earn enough to pay for school while saving. In return, employers would benefit from a skilled, productive domestic labour workforce.
But that agreement has been broken, as evidenced by Canada’s staggering youth unemployment and the countless gut-punching stories about young Canadians who have put out hundreds of resumes without getting as much as a single callback.
It is an almost immutable law of politics that as a leader’s reputation flourishes abroad, it deteriorates at home.
In the last week of summer, Prime Minister Mark Carney won plaudits for his trip to Ukraine to help celebrate that beleaguered nation’s independence day. He was the only world leader in Kyiv and his message that Canada will always stand in solidarity with Ukraine was well-received.
He went because he was snubbed by Washington.
New year, new prime minister—same failures. Mark Carney’s Ottawa looks just as weak and directionless as it did under Justin Trudeau, and Canadians are paying the price.
Despite the drama of 2025—Trudeau’s resignation, Carney’s rise to Liberal leader, an election fought on promises of competence, and Pierre Poilievre’s shock defeat—Canada has ended up right back where it started.
Canada’s budget watchdog is pressing Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne for updated figures on the true cost of Ottawa’s electric vehicle battery subsidies, warning taxpayers are being kept in the dark as the industry falters.
Budget Officer Yves Giroux wrote to the Department of Finance on August 14 asking for revised forecasts on both construction support and ongoing production subsidies.
There are Canadians who hoped that in voting for Mark Carney’s Liberals, some of some of Justin Trudeau’s social policies would survive. They are likely now wondering if this is the government that best represents them.
This is what some voters are now understanding after four months of watching Liberal Leader Mark Carney settle into the new role of prime minister.
Traditional NDP voters that went to the Liberals to prevent a Conservative government may be wondering where they can find the left-of-centre party, previously led by Justin Trudeau, that was making bold moves in health and environmental policy. The Liberals managed in this past election to turn seven NDP seats their way (though it should be noted that the Conservatives were more successful, and landed 10 NDP seats).
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