Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab faced questioning this week from Tory MPs who voiced concern about temporary immigrants remaining in Canada after their visas have expired.
Diab told the House of Commons on June 9 the expectation is they will leave on their own and that removals are not within the purview of her department.
Canadians have to learn how to Riot.
Canada has moved up one spot to become the fourth largest recipient country of asylum seekers, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Last year, Canada received a record 174,000 new refugee claims, of the 3.1 million new claims reported worldwide, said the agency’s 2024 global trends report released on Thursday. Canada was behind the U.S. (729,100), Egypt (433,900), Germany (229,800). In fifth was Spain at 167,400.
This country was also the second-largest resettlement country globally, welcoming 49,300 refugees in 2024, and led the world in granting permanent residence to 27,400 refugees.
The Great Replacement is a lie you know.
Canadian policymakers are helicoptering money to stimulate building, but it doesn’t appear to be working. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the total value of building permits fell sharply in April, dropping to the lowest monthly volume in nearly a year. The annual decline was so large it was amongst the largest since 2020.
Although the Carney government may have dispensed with the wildly unpopular consumer carbon tax, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin confirmed this week that they’re staying the course on an environmental policy that’s almost as controversial.
In the House of Commons on Monday, Dabrusin said there would be no changes to a Trudeau-era plan to ban the sale of gas-powered cars by 2035.
The report on the cost of the F-35 from the auditor general is more about incompetence than anything else. It’s also a worrying sign given that Prime Minister Mark Carney just pledged billions in new spending for the Canadian Armed Forces.
The headline from the audit is that the original cost projection to buy 88 F-35 fighter jets was $19 billion and now it’s $27.7 billion, a 46% increase.
Prime Minister Mark Carney raised a Pride flag on Parliament Hill Tuesday to kick off a month-long celebration of sexual and gender diversity while saying there’s a brewing “backlash” to these sorts of celebrations and federal money is needed to help make 2SLGBTQ+ parades safe this year.
Speaking to a couple hundred MPs, senators, political staffers, community activists and others gathered on Parliament Hill for the occasion, Carney said there’s been progress in the struggle for equal rights for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and trans people but the community is still in a sometimes “precarious” position.
Let’s see, he sucks up to Muslims and Gays and wants to shut down Alberta.
Implies some unnamed group is making Pride parades unsafe.
Yup, as bad as Junior already.
What has long seemed unattainable for successive Canadian governments—meeting NATO’s current defence spending guideline—will be reached this year, Prime Minister Mark Carney said.
Increasing the pay for soldiers and repairing existing Canadian Armed Forces equipment are some of the measures being planned to reach the target.
I’ll believe it when I see it and I don’t believe I’ll see it.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is to be applauded for laying out a bold and ambitious vision for Canada’s military.
For too long, Canada has neglected the men and women who serve our country and have allowed the equipment they rely on to protect us and others to badly deteriorate.
It’s just a promise at this point.
By any honest account — emphasis on honest, not the government-approved press release variety — Mark Carney has now sat in the Prime Minister’s chair for over forty days.
Forty days — not in the biblical sense of trial and transformation — but in the Kafka-esque sense of scripted announcements, symbolic gestures, and legislative landmines. Carney, Canada’s investment banker turned political shepherd, has worked diligently to emulate his idol — Donald Trump, of all people — though lacking the charisma, disruption, or delivery.
The results? Let us count the disappointments.
The West has committed a grave philosophical error: we have come to view countries not as civilizations but as corporations, and citizenship not as a sacred bond but as a kind of customer loyalty program.
Nowhere is this more evident than in Canada, where national identity has been hollowed out and replaced with an abstract collection of economic indicators and talking points: growth is good, immigration is GDP, diversity is strength. The country, we are told, is “open for business,” but rarely do we hear what that business is for.
Canada will reach NATO’s defence spending benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP this fiscal year – five years earlier than planned.
That’s according to an announcement on Monday by Prime Minister Mark Carney. The move is timely and necessary in an unstable world.
Ottawa is upping this year’s budget for the Department of National Defence by $9.3-billion. That and existing spending from other departments will push defence-related expenditure to $62.7-billion for 2025-26 – 2 per cent of GDP, as per the requirements of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
When it comes to supply management and trade policy, Canada seems trapped in a cycle of repeating the same costly mistakes.
Before Mark Carney’s arrival as prime minister, the previous Parliament adopted Bill C-282, introduced by the Bloc Quebecois. The bill granted blanket immunity to Canada’s supply-managed sectors — most notably dairy — against any future concessions in trade negotiations, regardless of the partner or economic context. It effectively locked in protectionism for a system that is already struggling to justify itself in the modern global economy.
If you want to keep a population under control, the easiest way is to do it through fear. I am not talking about guns in the streets or soldiers at your doorstep. I am speaking about the bogeyman at the door or under the bed. Fear of the unseen, the unknown, the unknowable.
Trump, NATO, The USA, the beat goes on.
Canada’s plan to buy 88 U.S.-built F-35 fighter jets is facing significant challenges, including skyrocketing costs, a shortage of trained pilots and a lack of critical infrastructure, according to a new report from Auditor General Karen Hogan.
The audit for the F-35 program is part of Hogan’s spring audits, released Tuesday, which also found contracts awarded to GCStrategies for the ArriveCan app and other services regularly did not follow proper processes or deliver value for money.
This sounds like the prep for exiting the purchase agreement.
Britain and other allies imposed sanctions on two far-right Israeli ministers, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, on Tuesday over “their repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities,” the U.K.’s foreign ministry said.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway joined Britain in freezing the assets and imposing travel bans on Israel’s National Security Minister Ben-Gvir — a West Bank settler — and Finance Minister Smotrich.
