” …The rapid population growth went a little under the radar because it was not just an increase in permanent immigrants. The number of temporary residents has ballooned. In 2015, there were 352,325 international students. In 2021, the number was 617,250. The following year, 2022, it was 807,260. But there weren’t a lot more student residences and apartments for rent.”
There is no quick fix and they have no plan.
Let them smoke stogies!
For Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, it has been a week of Prince Edward Island mussels, lobster, summer strolls along the picturesque Charlottetown boardwalk and, of course, puffing on the finest cigars.
Much has been made of the federal government’s ban of single-use plastics like straws, takeout containers, grocery bags and cutlery. Though environmentalists claim it was a significant win for the environment, the evidence suggests it will be a net environmental negative in the long run. Not to mention that it will increase the hospitality sector’s costs as it switches to more expensive alternatives. In sum, the ban amounted to symbolic policy, driven more by uninformed perception than reality.
KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The summer is almost over, and with it, the massive retreat of urban visitors from the rural areas that are Canada’s summer playgrounds. I see them from June until now on the Trans-Canada Highway nearby, the Ontario licence plates speeding east to Atlantic Canada, or returning back. They may be tourists who decided to pass on Maine or Massachusetts this year, or they are folks from “down home” visiting family and friends before returning “upalong.”
This is self evident in light of the housing crisis Trudeau’s liberal party created and its “effort” to solve it.
The Liberals will not back down on their mass immigration scam which according to their top thinkers will make everyone richer by making everyone poorer.
They know mass immigration will continue to drive up the cost of rent and home ownership.
They also know that no magic wand exists to create new housing and it will be many years before supply meets demand.
The increase in costs is naturally higher in urban centres that attract the most immigrants.
Unfortunately demand is so great the increase in housing costs has spread far beyond urban borders and now small towns feel the same pressures city dwellers do.
However the large urban centres like The GTA and Montreal also happen to be Liberal Party strongholds.
Strongholds they’ll need in order to form yet another minority government with Sell-Out Singh.
Do you think the Liberals are going to trash the Home Equity their most consistent supporters have accrued?
Me neither.
Trudeau’s cronies know their cue: Toronto-area home building shifts into low gear as developers pause or cancel projects
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffled his cabinet in July, he explained it was because his government had a communications problem.
I thought that was spin. Turns out he was serious.
While the Trudeau cabinet meets in Charlottetown this week to discuss Canada’s affordability crisis, the average Canadian family spent more of its income on taxes last year than on the combined cost of housing, food and clothing.
Remember the 1990s? It was an innocent time when globalization was lifting all boats. Massive, multilateral trading agreements were all the rage. And any trade disputes were modest irritations that could be smoothed over with a few glasses of chardonnay.
Fast forward to the 2020s, and everything has shifted. The brave new world of neoliberal economics has been rocked to its core. And now geopolitical tensions are sparking some very unpleasant shocks to global trade.
If the Babylon Bee claimed Canada’s environment minister was an official climate advisor to the Chinese communist regime, you’d call it too heavy-handed for effective satire. When he really is on the executive committee of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development which our aid money helped found, you’d call reality too heavy-handed for effective satire.
What is Guilbeault thinking being the only foreign government official on this body? What is his boss thinking letting him? And what does the Politburo even want him for?
This shows how deep Trudeau has his head up Xi Jinping’s butt and the contempt he holds for Canada.
Ottawa considering a cap on international students to ease housing pressure, says Fraser
Canada hosted more than 800,000 international students last year, according to the government’s figures.
“When you see some of these institutions that have five, six times as many students enrolled as they have spaces for them in the building … you’ve got to start to ask yourself some pretty tough questions,” he said.
This “moment of clarity” likely came about because the Globe mentioned publicly that they will shortly be publishing an expose on the abuse of the foreign students program and the Liberals are using the CBC to get ahead of the story.
Don’t forget the LPC have allowed their corporate cronies to import wage slaves on a whim.
Of course it is Junior – Trudeau Says Immigration a ‘Solution’ to Housing Shortage
“Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plain….”
Oklahoma! is a classic work of American musical theatre. Probably everyone has heard some of the music even if they haven’t seen the stage play or movie. Composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein immortalized the frontier conflict between “the cowman and the farmer” — but they left out a bigger, racially-charged conflict surrounding Oklahoma’s accession to statehood in 1907. This conflict included an inspiring Canadian dimension.
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists that despite months of delay, his government is “moving forward” with a foreign interference inquiry, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing him of standing in the way.
On Monday, asked by reporters whether the delay in what months ago seemed an imminent announcement of a public inquiry into foreign meddling, was because the Liberals couldn’t lock in someone to lead the process, Trudeau said “no.”
“We continue to work very closely with all opposition parties on making sure that the terms of reference, the person who will be leading it, and the work that is done, is in the best interests of all Canadians… without the kind of partisan toxicity we saw during the fall,” Trudeau said in Charlottetown, P.E.I.
Junior is probably waiting for Xi to approve his choice. They are gonna rag this forever if possible.
Canada’s spy agency says that the Chinese police stations on Canadian soil are part of a network to track down high-level targets overseas and suppress dissent, according to recently released records.
The document, which was obtained by La Presse through the access to information regime and reported on Aug. 21, says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) believes the stations are but one element the Chinese regime uses to conduct foreign interference.
OTTAWA — An adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office broke election law during the 2021 campaign, Canada’s elections watchdog said Monday.
Ayesha Chughtai, who left her job in the PMO last year, voted in Calgary Skyview even though she was told she wasn’t eligible, according to a notice posted on the Commissioner of Canada Elections’ website.
It’s fairly obvious where things are in federal politics now: The country, by and large, is tiring of Justin Trudeau as prime minister, but it’s far from sure about Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
Many Canadians – apart from partisans who can’t see why everyone else doesn’t love or hate the politicians they do – would recognize that. The public isn’t gripped with a fever for change yet, but the mood is peevish. Where Mr. Trudeau once charmed he often now grates. The water is close to the fill line.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to deliver a new mission for his cabinet at a three-day retreat in Charlottetown this week, in a bid to restore Canadians’ sense of economic security and their confidence in his government.
It is a very different cabinet from the one that last sat in the House of Commons, following a major shuffle in July. Seven of the 38 ministers were replaced entirely and 19 were given new files.
