“Mass Immigration – Follow the money”

Canadian authorities are planning to open a processing centre for asylum seekers near the United States border in Quebec in case there is a sharp rise in the number of would-be refugees entering Canada.

Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accommodate reception and meal distribution areas as well as a waiting room for up to 200 people at a time.

In an e-mail, the Canada Border Services Agency says the planned processing centre is part of its contingency plans “in the event of an influx of asylum seekers.”

The City of Windsor has released a stern message as the federal government gets set to stop funding the Interim Housing Assistance Program for asylum claimants.

“We can’t fund this, and we won’t,” said Andrew Daher, city commissioner of human and health services.

He pointed out to media during a news conference that 846 departure notices were handed out by the government for January, February and March.

“About 191 of those folks have been taken care of in January, so we’re left with roughly 600 or so folks that are going to get a letter, it will be effective Feb. 3 and then March 3,” Daher said.

Cost of building tent-like migrant shelter pegged at $15M

The City of Ottawa has found a contractor to design and build a tent-like structure to shelter migrants, with an estimated price tag of up to $15 million.

In a post on the city’s online public consultation portal Engage Ottawa on Tuesday, the city said BLT Construction Services is the only available and qualified vendor to provide a “Sprung Instant Structure” that will house a newcomer reception centre.

Sprung Structures is a leading manufacturer of tensile fabric structures that can be quickly built and customized. BLT would oversee the design of the structure, as well its construction and interior fit-up.

Douglas Todd: Ottawa has lured a supercharged volume of immigrants and temporary residents to Metro Vancouver — 119,000 in one year alone — without providing the infrastructure to support them.

“I guess the federal government had this misguided idea that you could invite all these people to Canada and they wouldn’t have needs. They were never going to use the health-care system, they were never going to flush a toilet, they were never going to send their kids to school.”

So says Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, who is among the few politicians raising alarms about what he calls a “sleeper issue” — that Ottawa has been allowing a high number of immigrants and temporary residents into the country without providing the infrastructure to support them.

Oleg Redko came to Canada in 2022 to escape the war in Ukraine, while Parth Shah moved to Canada from India with dreams of prosperity and a specialized education.

Both had an image of what Canada would be, but soon after arriving, they had experiences that shattered their sense of safety in their new country.

Because all their criminals became Trudeau Migrants. I suggest they move back for their own safety!

Brampton’s population grew by almost 90,000 in one year and is closer to reaching the one million mark than previously expected.

New data shows that Brampton’s population went from 656,480 in 2021 to 745,557 in 2022, an increase of 89,077 or 13.6 per cent in just one year.

The Great Replacement? That’s just a conspiracy theory!

Immigrating to Canada, once a goal for many, is now seen as a costly and often futile endeavour

Before coming to Canada from Iran in 2020, Hamed Heydarzadeh and his wife Mansooreh Fereidooni sold off their car as well as most of their assets, and paid a private tutor for a year to boost their English proficiency.

Heydarzadeh, 40, and Fereidooni, 35, had decided to leave their country because they opposed the regime.

“We were looking for peace in our life. We had many problems there, especially for my wife in Iran around hijab and other super strict rules,” Heydarzadeh told CBC News.

“We wanted to move to somewhere that we don’t have … to think about these issues that we have in our life.”

Five years and $50,000 later, they are considering leaving, as getting permanent residency (PR) is an uphill battle. If it doesn’t come through, they’ll have to go home, or start from scratch — again — in another country.

Blame Trudeau, he made Canada a shithole for everyone.

The number of immigrants who choose to stay in Toronto five years after getting here is declining, Statistics Canada says, and one of the possible reasons why will likely not come as a surprise to most.

In a report released last month, the federal agency said it is seeing a “downward trend” in the five-year retention rate of immigrants in the country’s top three urban centres: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.