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.
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.
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.
The federal Auditor-General’s office is planning an audit of the international student program, which has been mired in controversy over a rapid influx of foreign students in recent years.
A spokesperson for the office confirmed to The Globe and Mail that there will be an audit, and a report is expected to be tabled in Parliament next year.
Carney will continue with cosmetic cuts to immigration but the Great Replacement scam will go on.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is giving the strongest signal yet he’s ready to break with a decade of Trudeau government’s obstructionism and move forward with a crucial new pipeline for Canada’s oil and gas sector. In an interview last week, Carney indicated that it is “highly, highly likely” that a new oil pipeline to British Columbia’s coast, something Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been strongly advocating for, will be among the major national projects pursued by the Carney government.
No.
In Canada, we have a democratic deficit. And before you say ”so what?” realize that it is costing you a lot of money, liberties, and safety.
First, what is the democratic deficit?
The minister of Indigenous Services says major projects that arise under the federal government’s One Economy Act that don’t have the support of Indigenous communities will have almost a “zero” chance of being approved.
“The outcome of these projects is for Indigenous interest to be there, so it requires Indigenous participation,” said Mandy Gull Masty during a scrum with reporters after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s summit with First Nations leaders.
“The likelihood of these projects advancing or being completed without Indigenous people at the table, we heard the prime minister in this session, it is, oh, I want to say, almost, sounded to me, sounded like zero.”
The Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., can make you feel small.
It’s a soaring, glass-walled space that stretches across the belly of the museum, facing the Ottawa River and Parliament Hill on the opposite shore.
The Grand Hall is set up like a Pacific Northwest coastal village from the 19th century, with the undulating shape of the massive space emulating a shoreline. A boardwalk runs along the “waterfront,” before the facades of houses from six different First Nations along the coast of British Columbia, from the Coast Salish in the south to the Haida and North Coast communities further up.
We lose.
A federal labour department memo acknowledged growing joblessness among young Canadians but failed to mention the government’s own decision to allow over 1 million foreign students into the workforce.
“Youth unemployment is on the rise,” said a June 12 briefing note to Labour Minister Patty Hajdu titled Employment And Skills Support For Canada’s Youth.
Threats of political violence rose rapidly through the Trudeau years, new data shows
Catherine McKenna noticed the first serious wave of threats aimed at her in 2018, on the same day the Trudeau government’s carbon-tax-and-rebate policy went into effect.
She was then the environment minister in former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet and became the lightning rod for opponents of the policy.
“Pretty quickly, things got really weird,” McKenna, who left politics after the 2019 election, said in a recent interview.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is ignoring warnings from taxpayers and the auto industry.
Yet his government is barrelling ahead with its plan to ban the sale of new gas or diesel cars and trucks.
So long as his boys are getting rich why shut the gravy train down?
Since his election as Canada’s 24th prime minister, Mark Carney has enjoyed sustained strong approval ratings from Canadians, according to public opinion research. Among the reasons for this has been his willingness to reverse course on Trudeau-era policies that he either disagreed with, the public had demonstrated a clear dislike for, or policies that have been objectively proven to be failing.
This is a refreshing change, and it has earned the prime minister the admiration of many Canadians who hope to be governed by leaders who are prepared to shelve partisan entrenchment and take the risk of triggering the internal disloyalty of colleagues who have overcommitted to bad ideas by being willing to change course.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has long recognized what the Liberals have only started to acknowledge: immigration levels in Canada are too high and unsustainable. He has a plan to get things back under control, and it’s a sensible political strategy to take.
Poilievre suggested a new immigration policy for the Conservatives in June. “We want severe limits on population growth to reverse the damage the Liberals did to our system,” he said at a press conference last month. “The population has been growing out of control, our border has been left wide open. This has caused the free flow of drugs, illegal migration, human trafficking and much worse.”
Immigrants arriving in Canada led to a rise in housing prices, accounting for 11 percent of the price increase in smaller towns and 21 percent in cities of more than 100,000 people, according to the Immigration Department.
According to the report “Immigration and Housing Prices Across Municipalities in Canada,” municipal data across Canada from 2006 to 2021 suggest that over the study period, “the rise in the influx of new immigrants, who arrived in Canada within the past five years, on average, accounted for 11 percent of the rise in median house values and in median rents across municipalities with a population of at least 1,000.”
The report, first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter, said this association was “notably more pronounced” in larger municipalities.
One basic prerequisite for becoming public safety minister should be a lack of perceived conflicts of interest with terror organizations. Heck, it should be a requirement for candidacy as an MP, long before cabinet enters the conversation.
But no such requirement formally exists, which is why we have Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, who remains in his office despite recusing himself from all files involving two Tamil terrorist groups, and who, Canadians learned Tuesday, wrote letters of support to assist a former Tamil Tiger member’s immigration efforts.
