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LILLEY: Trudeau changed foreign workers program at your expense

The Trudeau Liberals are channeling Captain Louis Renault as they react in shock to problems with Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. Movie fans will know Captain Renault as the corrupt police chief in Casablanca.

After Captain Renault barges into Rick’s Cafe — more of a nightclub and casino — Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, walks up and asks on what grounds his establishment is being shut down.

“I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here,” Captain Renault says.

A very good thread explaining the Liberal and NDP treachery.

Short thread time: How on earth did the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers nearly triple in 2022?

TL;DR – The federal government made some massive changes a mere 13 days after the Liberals and NDP signed the Supply and Confidence Agreement. pic.twitter.com/PrQ6XeJ1xT

— Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt) August 10, 2024

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 15, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The growing need to prune the federal civil service

There are two economies in Canada right now. In one, employment rebounded smartly after the pandemic maelstrom in the spring of 2020, recovering lost jobs by September of that year. In the other, it took until November, 2021 to rebound.

In one, the number of jobs has jumped by 18 per cent between February, 2020, and last month. In the other, the number of employees has risen by a third of that amount, just 6 per cent.

That first economy is the public sector; the second is the one that has to pay for the rapid expansion of the first – the private sector. The most recent data from the Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada underscore the outsized growth in the number of public sector employees, particularly since the onset of the pandemic.

Will this ever happen or will it become yet another perennial unfulfilled wish of Canadian conservative politics like defunding the CBC or right-sizing immigration?

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 15, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Public Service Union Predator Class

Carson Jerema: Blame Trudeau for threat of cheap Chinese EVs flooding in

Canada isn’t a country, so much as an elaborate program for distributing public money to a handful of manufacturing companies in southern Ontario. It doesn’t matter if the government in Ottawa is Liberal or Conservative. And it doesn’t matter if whatever is being manufactured is something people want to buy. The existence of industries in other parts of the country, such as oil and gas in Alberta, that thrive largely without subsidies only seems to reinforce Ottawa’s need to coddle Central Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 15, 2024•0•"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The political consensus on taxing Chinese imports is now complete — your move, Minister Freeland

Now that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his party have joined the chorus calling for more action against Chinese imports, a key decision facing Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland this month just got a little easier.

Cross-party consensus on the wisdom of lining up with the Biden administration’s incoming tariffs on made-in-China electric vehicles provides the government with more political cover. But there’s still a risk of incoming flak.

To understand how complicated this gets, consider how then-president Donald Trump’s earlier campaign against Chinese state-sponsored overproduction played out for the United States and its trading partners in what was then NAFTA, now the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). That policy debate got very confusing for voters who like to slot politicians on a predictable left-right axis.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 15, 2024•0•"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Migrant Workers Lured to Canada Are Being Scammed Out of Their Life Savings

High salaries, top-notch schools, beautiful scenery and low crime: the promise of a better life attracted over a million newcomers to Canada last year. But as idyllic as it may seem, a post-pandemic migration surge is revealing a dirty underbelly of the immigration system.

Fraud is running rampant in Canada’s temporary foreign worker program, another wrinkle in immigration debates playing out around the world as developed countries seek to bolster their labor forces without alienating the native-born population. In the US’s northern neighbor, critics have honed in on employers and consultants who illegally sell jobs to migrants desperate for an advantage in their quest for permanent residency. A patchwork of overwhelmed government agencies appears ill-equipped to crack down.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 14, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Joly’s public missteps embarrassing, inexcusable

Last week, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly was amplifying Hamas talking points against Israel.

Again.

On Aug. 10 — and for the second time — Joly posted a Hamas talking point that is still at the top of her official X account, now read by 1 million people.

“Canada condemns the Israeli strike that killed Palestinian civilians sheltering at a school in Gaza including children”

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 14, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Federal government planning sharp cut to low-wage stream of temporary foreign worker program, sources say

The federal government is planning to sharply cut the low-wage stream of the temporary foreign worker program back to prepandemic levels, government sources say, amid criticism of its growing use by Canadian employers.

Reliance on the low-wage stream has shot up since 2022, when Ottawa agreed to ease access to the program in response to calls from restaurant owners and other employers who said they were struggling to find staff after months of pandemic restrictions.

Even if they do cut the numbers and I doubt they will the damage is done.

Our Captains of Industry have enough slaves to last them for some time as the scam has generated a significant surplus.

Trudeau’s gov’t has lost track of the many foreign workers and students who have gone underground.

Evidently they’ve postponed the “path to citizenship” for an estimated 500K illegals.

Justin Trudeau’s government radically transformed Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. Young people and low wage workers are paying the price

If you know a young person who struggled to find a summer job they are not alone. This has been the worst summer on record for youth employment outside of the pandemic. Many factors — from a weak economy to a population boom of young people — are at play with one of the largest being the federal government’s 2022 decision to deregulate the low-wage stream of the temporary foreign worker program.

On April 4, 2022, a mere 13 days after the Liberals and NDP signed their Supply and Confidence Agreement, the federal government announced arguably the largest deregulation of the Temporary Foreign Worker program in Canadian history. The program’s low-wage stream, which allows employers not in the agricultural industry (they have a separate stream) to bring in workers and pay them wages under the provincial median (currently $28.39 in Ontario), was radically transformed. The government removed the rule that employers could only bring in workers in some low-wage occupations if the local unemployment rate was less than six per cent allowing firms in areas of high unemployment to access the program. Companies had been limited to having only 10 per cent of their workforce be low-wage temporary foreign workers; this was raised to 20 per cent. In seven sectors, including accommodation and food services, this was raised to 30 per cent.

This is The Star.

GUNTER: ‘Green’ energy transition proving to be costly disaster

The past 14 days have been a tough fortnight for those who, like our federal Liberal government, have a cultish obsession with saving the planet through a transition to “green” energy.

The news since the beginning of the month is that electric vehicle sales continue to soften, the cost of the global transition to alternate energy will be many trillions (yes, trillions) more than anyone has admitted and the measures implemented thus far, at great expense already, have had little impact on emissions or fossil fuel use, both of which are up in the past decade.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 14, 2024•0•"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Jamie Sarkonak: Liberal vetting no match for human rights chief with two names

The federal Liberals had two years to make sure the guy appointed to head the Canadian Human Rights Commission wasn’t wholly inappropriate for the job — and they failed.

On Monday, incoming human rights commissioner Birju Dattani resigned before he could even take his chair. He had, according to the external law firm tasked with investigating his appointment, “intentionally omitted” key information about his past in relevant forms and interviews. Namely, his record of speaking at anti-Israel academic functions.

by Blazingcatfur•August 15, 2024August 14, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Disgusted’ immigration minister looking into revoking citizenship of Toronto terror suspect

The federal government is looking at whether the citizenship of a man accused of planning a terror attack in Toronto should be revoked, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday.

“I’m as disgusted as any Canadian. But I have a responsibility to get to the bottom of it and I will,” he said during a morning news conference in Church Point, N.S.

“I’m also going to take the next step, which is to start the preliminary work with the evidence at hand to look at whether the individual in question’s citizenship should be revoked.”

Bullshit.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2024August 14, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Christopher Dummitt: Conservatives are weird — because progressives have bastardized cultural norms

Desperate to try any tactic to dig them out of the hole they find themselves in, the Liberals appear to have looked south and borrowed the Democrats’ idea of calling conservatives “weird.”

The tactic might just work for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her party. There are, after all, more than enough fringe Republican elements to make this somewhat convincing, especially as a sop to the Democrats’ political base and to independents who find political shenanigans ludicrous in general.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2024August 14, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Joe Oliver: The walls are closing in on Justin Trudeau

Among the myriad problems Justin Trudeau is confronting, two have an immediacy that must be especially troubling. One is political, the other economic.

The political problem is the miraculous improvement in presidential prospects for the Democratic Party since its power brokers, who had shamelessly insisted until the very end how “sharp” Joe Biden was, finally confronted reality and threw him under the bus. Their motivation was not patriotic concern (though that’s their story and they’re sticking with it). The disastrous June 27th debate merely revealed what everyone in contact with the president already knew and what 70 per cent of Americans had been telling pollsters for months: Biden’s obvious cognitive and physical decline made him incapable of serving four more years in office. The bus only arrived, however, once polls began to show he was certain to lose to a Republican they viscerally despise and fear.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2024August 14, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The folly of Liberal immigration policy is now showing up in the job market

In late 2023, Immigration Minister Marc Miller revealed that his department was working on a “broad and comprehensive” plan to “regularize” the status of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who either came to Canada illegally or overstayed their visas.

The planned move to grant legal status to undocumented immigrants, many of whom had been working in Canada for years, drew praise from the New Democratic Party, on whose support the Liberal minority government has relied to stay in power.

Fortunately, Mr. Miller has now put that plan on ice. And none too soon, as the fallout from Ottawa’s short-sighted approach to immigration begins to show up in the labour market, with soaring unemployment among youth and newcomers.

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2024August 14, 2024•0•"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

ANALYSIS: American-Style Politics at Play in Canada as the ‘Weird’ Strategy Takes Hold

Importing political attack methods and even certain derogatory words from south of the border is becoming more frequent, but is it effective for Canadian parties?

The latest trend has seen Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers accuse Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of being “weird,” echoing a strategy used by the Democrats in the United States. Some Tory MPs have in turn retorted with the same term, sharing policy items, quotes, or photos of the Liberals on social media and characterizing them as “weird.”

by Blazingcatfur•August 14, 2024August 14, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party