Unless Carney addresses issues such as affordability and immigration, grassroots anger will eventually bring his government down
Canada’s populist moment did not come to pass — at least not yet.
Having deluded themselves into believing that the status quo is tenable, many on the left celebrated the result of the recent federal election as proof that Canada could withstand the wave of anti-establishment politics that has swept the West in recent years.
Horrific details are emerging in court about a deadly hit-and-run in Surrey in which a man was trapped under a car and, according to the prosecution, knowingly dragged more than a kilometre after being struck.
The actions of Gaganpreet Singh and Jagdeep Singh, who are now also facing deportation for their actions, are being described by the victim’s family as “unimaginably cruel.”
OTTAWA — Conservative MP Jamil Jivani has launched a petition to end the temporary foreign worker program.
The petition says the temporary foreign worker program is a “large contributor” to an unsustainable level of immigration and claims the program is taking jobs away from Canadians and suppressing wages.
What sort of person votes Liberal?
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer did something extraordinary and unexpected last week: he publicly acknowledged that his country’s immigration system is broken.
Starmer ended generations of progressive orthodoxy by admitting that the dynamics of human migration, multiculturalism and integration have changed.
New Labour thought migration could ‘modernise’ Britain and put the ‘bigoted’ public in their place.
Keir Starmer’s plan to reduce net migration, announced this week, has provoked a predictably outraged reaction among the liberal and left-ish. They have accused the UK prime minister of racist dog-whistling, likening his ‘island of strangers’ speech to Tory MP Enoch Powell’s infamously inflammatory Rivers of Blood speech. As far as they’re concerned, Starmer is just the latest in a long line of politicians to ‘toxify’ and ‘weaponise’ the immigration debate in a desperate attempt to pick up votes and appease the right-wing press.
But they’re wrong. It’s not Starmer or right-wing tabloid owners or Reform UK’s Nigel Farage who have toxified and weaponised this most polarising of issues. No, the weaponisation of immigration, the transformation of it into the most divisive issue of our era, has deeper and altogether different roots.
In Canada, Liberal reaction has been too piecemeal, too little and too late to undo the damage caused by uncontrolled population growth
“We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.”
These are not the words of a populist firebrand or a conservative hardliner. They were spoken by Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Britain’s Labour Party and, since July 2024, prime minister of the United Kingdom.
International students filed a record 20,245 asylum claims last year, with 2025 on track to surpass that number, according to federal immigration data obtained by Global News.
The claims are rising, even as Ottawa cuts the number of study permits it issues, with Prime Minister Mark Carney pledging like his predecessor Justin Trudeau to return Canadian immigration to “sustainable levels.”
Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, economists warn
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s aim to reduce immigration to “sustainable levels” will be achievable only on paper unless changes are brought in to ensure that Canada doesn’t continue to undercount the number of non-permanent residents living here, economists warn.
Mr. Carney, at his first press conference after the election, pledged to cap the total number of temporary workers and international students at less than 5 per cent of Canada’s population by the end of 2027.
For years, Canada’s top telecom providers rode a wave of high immigration, collectively adding hundreds of thousands of new mobile phone subscribers most quarters. Those days are over.
Canada’s three biggest wireless firms — BCE Inc., Rogers Communications Inc. and Telus Corp. — all cited tighter immigration rules when explaining to investors over the past two quarters why subscriber growth has slowed. The trio recorded fewer than 54,000 net new mobile subscribers in the first quarter, the lowest number in four years.
Believe nothing from corporate Canada or the Liberal gov’t on immigration.
Canada’s jobless numbers could have been worse in April – in fact, Statistics Canada is pretty clear they would have been worse if not for the election.
The month jobs report was released Friday showing unemployment rising to 6.9%, up from 6.7% in February.
BREAKING – IMMIGRATION TRAIN WRECK IN CANADA
Between April 2024 and April 2025
Canada added 512,000 working aged Canadians (25-54 years old) ….
but recorded only 182,000 more people working full-time pic.twitter.com/zraQXvITu1
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) May 9, 2025
Interview with author Douglas Murray: ‘Canada has disgraced itself’
With rising Jew-hatred, what might be the tipping point for Jewish North Americans?
DM: It’s extremely hard to say, because everybody has their own early warning system in their heads, in their hearts. All I would say is that many Jews in the West have felt the first time in their lives, the re-eruption of hatred of Jews.
And by the way, nowhere more so than in Canada. To my mind, Canada has disgraced itself in the last 18 months by showing that that anti-Jewish hatred is permissible and is tolerable in a way which hatred of no other group would be.
I would submit that if there were a large number of protests across Canada calling for lynching of black people or Indigenous people or gay people or anything else, that all of the strength of government and civil society would condemn the people doing that. Swiftly, too.
This is the great shame of Canada, that synagogue after synagogue and Jewish school after Jewish school across Canada should have been attacked, fire bombed, shot at. Canada’s politicians, if they care about Canada’s view in the world, should address this. But of course, seems that they’re doing the classic thing of feeding the crocodile.
The average Canadian does not share the toxic values of our elite.
Our political class, the crony capitalists who crave cheap foreign labour and the 5th columnists who infiltrated the academy and our government bureaucracy are responsible for this mess, ordinary Canadians had nothing to do with it.
Canadians were bullied and bludgeoned with the smears of Islamophobia and racism if they dared declare the obvious, that Islam is a violent cult and should never have been allowed to gain a foothold in Canada.
Rather than admit their lunatic decision to import Islam was a horrid disaster our government encouraged DEI programs that ensured white working class people were scapegoated as Canada’s “official national oppressors”. All because our skin tone automatically makes us Nazis.
So it should be a slam dunk that Canada’s many many millions of Nazis could make a case that the Swastika has been culturally appropriated by Islamists and their useful idiots.
Unfortunately Islamist marches have more “Jews For Palestine” in their ranks than wannabe white Hitlers nixing that notion.
I wonder what plans Carney’ immigration advisor Wiseman has in store for us. What other countries besides Canada does he think should enjoy the benefits of unvetted mass immigration?
Please forgive my confusion but why should we rally to our cynical elites call to fight an evil they imported and continue to support? Wouldn’t that be Islamophobic?
A gift from Canada’s elite to you.
Had enough of these pigs? I sure have. @fancypants_s https://t.co/gKjslEi3mJ
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) May 10, 2025
Ottawa looking for ways to mend tears in Canada’s social fabric, document shows
OTTAWA — Senior federal officials have been looking quietly for ways to bring together Canadians who don’t see eye to eye on the economy, immigration and social issues.
With a general election looming, officials prepared to meet last November to brainstorm solutions to the problem of social fragmentation, according to an internal presentation drafted by the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The presentation called on session participants to come up with ideas to make Canadian society more cohesive by reversing the trend toward polarization, building trust in government agencies and fighting the swelling tide of misinformation and disinformation.
Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic
When it emerged as the guiding organisational principle of the British state, multiculturalism was sold, in the words of the hugely influential Parekh Report, as “perhaps the country’s biggest single national advantage”. The arrival of peoples from all over the world, bringing with them their unique perspectives, cuisines, religions, dresses, and cultures, would allow Britain to move on from “a narrow, English-dominated backward-looking definition of the nation” into something altogether more vibrant and exciting. Multiculturalism was to “widen a society’s range of options and increase its freedom of choice, for it brings different cultural traditions into a mutually beneficial dialogue and stimulates new ideas and experiences”. All those within society would thereby gain the opportunity to escape the narrow constraints of the culture they happened to be born into, instead becoming free to choose from the plethora of practices they would encounter every day, in doing so creating all sorts of dynamic new cultural mixes.
North African Muslims attacked Flemish supporters of Club Brugge with stones, clubs and knives, shouting "Allah Akbar" because they were white, European and Christian. There is a religious war in Europe that will not end well, but many have not yet understood this. pic.twitter.com/4PFHq2X6Y5
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) May 6, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The boss of Southern Water has told households that they need to ration their water use because the region is “drier than Sydney, Dallas, Marrakesh and Istanbul”. Needless to say, given the appalling way most of these privatised companies have been run, Tim Mcmahon was denounced for blaming the consumer for the failings of his business. Why don’t you repair the leaks properly and invest more in infrastructure before passing the buck, was a characteristic response.
In New York, Frank Sinatra says, they want to be a part of it. Chicago, he claims, has all that jazz. But it turns out Toronto is where people are going.
Toronto was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada and the U.S. for the second consecutive year and saw an estimated population increase of nearly 269,000 people from July 2023 to July 2024, according to data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau.
… In 2021, 47 per cent of Toronto residents were born in Canada. According to the Census, there were 1,286,140 immigrants in Toronto, or 46.6 percent of the population. In Canada overall, immigrants made up 23.0 per cent of the population.
