Trudeau government freezes immigration targets, plans for 500,000 permanent residents in 2026

Ottawa has frozen its targets for the number of permanent residents it will welcome to Canada, saying it plans to leave the number admitted to Canada in 2026 at 500,000.

It has also stuck with its target of 485,000 permanent residents for 2024 and said it plans to take action over the next year to recalibrate the number of temporary resident admissions to ensure the amount is sustainable.

The decision not to further increase numbers follows a sharp drop in public support for immigration over the past year, according to recent polling, as Canadians increasingly associate affordability and housing concerns with an influx of newcomers.

This is garbage. Nothing will improve.

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Liberal stalwart calls for new party leader, predicts Trudeau will decide soon whether to quit

A Liberal stalwart and a former prime minister’s chief of staff is calling on the party to find a new leader to replace Justin Trudeau.

In a blunt and at times stinging opinon piece for National Newswatch published Wednesday, Sen. Percy Downe wrote that the party should replace Trudeau as Liberal leader before the next election.

“The prudent course of action is for another Liberal Leader to rise from the impressive Liberal caucus and safeguard those policies (Trudeau) was actually able to accomplish,” wrote Downe, who was prime minister Jean Chrétien’s chief of staff and served in many other senior positions.

Too many issues, affordability, housing shortage, bad immigration policy, carbon tax scam, corruption, lack of ethics, etc etc etc…

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Jamie Sarkonak: Carbon tax punishes provinces that don’t vote for Trudeau

How can you minimize your exposure to the burdensome carbon tax? Stop driving the car you need to get to work, eat less and — as of last week — move to a region that’s key to the Liberals’ electoral success.

Last Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year pause on the carbon tax for home heating oil. Technically, the pause applies to all Canadians, but in practice, it’s really just Atlantic Canada that stands to benefit, since it’s the only region where this particular fuel is used to a significant degree.

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‘Outright incompetence’: Whistleblowers secretly recorded civil servant slamming Trudeau green fund

Doug McConnachie laid out his unvarnished thoughts on Aug. 25, unaware his words were being caught on tape.

Commenting on a fact-finding report he’d just received, the assistant deputy minister at Innovation came down hard on the senior leadership of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), a foundation in the middle of a five-year, billion-dollar funding deal with Ottawa.

“There’s a lot of sloppiness and laziness. There is some outright incompetence and, you know, the situation is just kind of untenable at this point,” he said.

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Joe Oliver: For the good of Canada, Justin Trudeau should go

Trudeau’s incompetent, divisive and ethically challenged leadership has been egregious

“You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.” That devastating plea has been uttered on three different occasions in the British House of Commons, most notably directed at Neville Chamberlain after Germany’s invasion of Norway. It reflected an exasperation about appalling failures that forfeited any moral right to stay in elected office.

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The Liberals broke the immigration system. But better is always possible

This week, when it releases its new immigration targets, the Trudeau government has an opportunity to begin rethinking immigration policy.

For the past eight years, the Liberal plan has been about sharply and steadily increasing permanent immigration, while enabling even sharper increases in temporary immigration – with the two interconnected streams powered by huge jumps in the number of foreign students.

Why? The government’s reasons are a combination of faith and politics.

Immigration is going to mean more extremists marching in our streets.

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Canada’s immigration planning will now take into account housing, health care and infrastructure, minister says

In response to growing concern over Canada’s capacity to welcome more newcomers, the federal government says it will incorporate housing, health care and infrastructure planning with provinces and municipalities when setting the country’s annual immigration targets.

On Tuesday, Immigration Minister Marc Miller unveiled a report on the current state of Canadian immigration — along with a road map for tackling those challenges.

“We aim to build a system that is easier to navigate, with an inclusive and co-ordinated plan that aligns our immigration programs and policies with the needs of the country,” Miller said in a statement released the day before he will table his 2024-26 immigration levels plan.

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John Robson: When the Polls Are So Bad That the ‘Burning Earth’ Carbon Tax Excuse Takes a Back Seat

The global boiling climate breakdown age of fire is so serious that no price is too high to pay to stop it. Except Liberal parliamentary seats in Atlantic Canada in our gravely unserious nation.

Thus we awoke recently to snow in the backyard. No wait, to news that the federal carbon tax on home heating oil will be suspended for three years because the urgent man-made climate crisis isn’t really that serious after all. Or their magnificent policies won’t actually help anyway. Or Liberal polling numbers are looking so grim that the burning Earth must wait.

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Saskatchewan to Stop Carbon Tax Collection if Exemption Benefiting Atlantic Not Extended to Prairies

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says if the federal government doesn’t extend carbon tax exemption to all types of home heating fuels, his province would stop collecting the tax.

“I cannot accept the federal government giving an affordability break to people in one part of Canada, but not here,” Mr. Moe said in a video posted on X on Oct. 30.

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Sikh independence vote takes place in B.C. amid Canada-India tensions

SURREY, B.C. – Thousands of Sikh voters are expected to turn out today in the Metro Vancouver municipality of Surrey, to vote in an unofficial referendum at the centre of Canada’s ongoing tensions with India.

Organizers say the referendum on Khalistan — an independent state in India proposed by some Sikhs — is taking place at the same Surrey gurdwara where activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in June.

Today’s vote is the second round of the referendum in British Columbia, after organizers said the first ballot on Sept. 10 was so popular that voting couldn’t be completed in one day.

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Retreat on carbon pricing policy alone won’t change Liberals’ political fortunes: expert

A political science professor says the recent announcement that Ottawa will pause carbon pricing for home heating oil deliveries for three years will likely need to go further to boost the federal Liberals’ performance at the polls in the next election.

The federal government announced the measure on Thursday, along with other incentives to cut heating oil costs as affordability concerns have left the party flailing in the polls in Atlantic Canada.

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Temporary foreign workers in Canada have skyrocketed over the past decade, according to StatsCan. Here’s a breakdown

The overall number of temporary residents reporting income in Canada has increased close to 150 per cent between 2010 and 2020, a new Statistics Canada study found.

That growth is being driven by postgraduate work permit holders and international students with study permits.

The federal government runs two programs for temporary foreign workers and residents: the Temporary Foreign Worker program and the International Mobility program.

Another scam run by corporate interests to flood the country with cheap labour and benefit their bottom line.

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Immigration minister announces new rules to curb international student fraud schemes

OTTAWA – Colleges and universities that issue acceptance letters to international students will have to confirm all of them with the federal immigration department as Canada moves to crack down on fraud.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced the new rules Friday following an investigation this summer into more than 100 cases involving fake admission letters.

The department launched a task force in June to investigate a scheme that dates back to 2017, which saw immigration agents issue fake acceptance letters to get international students into Canada.

Bullshit.

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