Canada delivered its biggest affordability measure in years—shrinking its population. That was the takeaway from a new report from BMO Capital Markets this week. The bank has repeatedly warned that promises to triple the new homes built and create affordability with supply, weren’t grounded in reality. Now that Canada is quietly acknowledging this failure, they see real affordability on the way as scaled up building meets a shrinking population.
Promising? Maybe. But the damage is done.
Reports about the death of Canada’s immigration consensus have arguably been exaggerated. But there are warning signs — both for the public’s attitude toward immigration and for the Trudeau government’s legacy.
The clearest evidence that the consensus is in some danger can be found in polling conducted by the Environ ics Institute. For 50 years, Environics has been asking Canadians whether they agree or disagree with the statement that “overall there is too much immigration in Canada.”
For nearly 25 years, starting in the late 1990s, a majority of Canadians disagreed with that statement. In 2022, the gap was particularly wide — 69 per cent disagreed, just 27 per cent agreed.
The Ontario government will effectively bar international students from attending medical schools beginning in the fall of 2026, while also covering tuition for more than 1,000 students who commit to becoming a family doctor in the province.
Premier Doug Ford and Health Minister Sylvia Jones said Friday upcoming legislation will ensure at least 95 per cent of medical school spots will be reserved for residents of Ontario. The remaining five per cent will be for students from elsewhere in Canada.
The change will only represent a small shift in enrolment, as roughly 88 per cent of all medical school spots in Ontario are already held by residents of the province, a health ministry official said.
h/t DS
Reporter claims ‘Canada is relinquishing its welcome mat,’ when in fact we are returning to pre-pandemic levels
In 2017, when our fresh-faced prime minister was still under the mistaken impression that incessant virtue-signalling was a reasonable way to run a country, Justin Trudeau issued a proclamation to the world’s huddled masses: “To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada.” Canada, in other words, was instituting an open-door immigration policy, in contrast to the United States, where president Donald Trump had just signed an executive order intended to curb Muslim immigration.
Immigration prevented a recession last year, but looming changes could stall growth: economists
Reducing the number of new admissions to the country could have negative consequences for the economy and pose challenges for commerce, according to business advocates and economists alike.
Economic measures such as the gross domestic product (GDP) have been moving in a positive direction, economists say, in part because Canada’s population has continued to increase due to rising immigration levels.
Statistics Canada reported in March that the country’s population grew in 2023 by about 1.3 million, and 97.6 per cent of that growth was the result of immigration.
Ottawa is going to slash the number of new permanent residents welcomed to the country by 21 per cent to 395,000 next year amid a growing sentiment among Canadians that there’s too much immigration.
Last November, in response to the affordable housing crisis and rising cost of living, Immigration Minister Marc Miller put a brake on further increases of the permanent resident numbers and set a target of 500,000 for 2025 and 2026.
The damage is done. Housing crisis, depressed wages, depressed GDP, inaccessible public services, social strife from incompatible cultures, all this will be Trudeau’s legacy.
It will take years for Canada to dig itself out of the mess Trudeau’s Liberal Party created. I am doubtful it can.
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government will announce a dramatic immigration cut Thursday, reducing new permanent resident numbers by almost 100,000 in 2025 after years of consecutive increases to the country’s immigration targets.
Barring any last-minute changes, information obtained by National Post shows the government is planning to decrease permanent resident intake from 485,000 this year to 395,000 in 2025. It is then expecting to further cut intake to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.
These so called cuts are Bullshit given the damage done and the numbers here already.
They’ll find some other program to juice migrant intake and pretend it accidentally got away when found out.
What do Canadians — permanent residents and citizens — owe to Canada regarding the politics of the “old country” conducted here?
With the astonishing allegations of criminal activity, including extortion and homicide — “well over a dozen credible and imminent threats to life” — made against the government of India by the RCMP, long-standing issues in Canada’s Sikh community were brought into the spotlight. But diaspora politics is a bigger challenge than any one community, as this past week also highlighted in regard to foreign interference by China.
That will depend on where the “newcomers” hail from.
Canada is a case study illustrating the import of incompatible cultures that have no connection to our heritage and traditions is a recipe for disaster.
Do not vote for those who wish to replace you.
Defending yourself and your family’s best interests does not make you a racist.
From October 3 to 9, 2024, Abacus Data conducted a national survey of 1,915 Canadian adults (18+) to gauge their perspectives on immigration and its perceived impacts.
The results reveal a significant shift in sentiment, with a majority now viewing immigration negatively, largely influenced by political affiliations and age.
Concerns extend beyond newcomers, as many Canadians also express concern about domestic migration exacerbating housing shortages and straining public resources and services.
Concerns of ‘hateful racism’ after Ontario man’s video of woman ranting about people from India goes viral
A Waterloo, Ont., man is speaking out after his video of a woman ranting about the South Asian community went viral.
Ashwin Annamalai said he used his cellphone to record the woman after she gave him the middle finger, an action he said was unprovoked, while he was out for a walk on Tuesday evening.
Annamalai said that after he confronted the woman to ask what he had done to deserve the gesture, she went on about how Indian people are invading Canada.
The once welcoming community of Kitchener-Waterloo has seen a disturbing rise in hate, particularly against people of colour. Here’s a personal account of what I experienced today: A random woman gave me the finger & spewed hate while I was out for a walk at Erb/Avondale 1/n pic.twitter.com/TxvXeXW3Yd
— Ashwin Annamalai (@ignorantsapient) October 15, 2024
He is a former “international student” who seems locked on to the diversity gravy train.
A job listing at a Toronto-area Burger King has prompted observers and experts to wonder whether the temporary foreign workers program is being used to avoid paying higher salaries to Canadians.
On Sept. 25, a Burger King in Mississauga, Ont., posted an opening for a restaurant manager position on the federal government’s online job bank.
The post drew criticism from some social media users, who noted that underneath the posting, a banner reads, “This employer has applied for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) to hire a foreign worker to fill labour or skills shortages on a temporary basis.”
There’s no wonder at all.
Business and the Liberal Government conspired to harm Canadians by importing masses of cheap foreign labour.
Business profits from depressed wages and from the shortages created by the extreme population spike.
The Liberal party is looking to harvest votes defending the culturally incompatible masses they brought in against the objections of “racist” Canadians standing up for their rights.
Neither Business nor the Liberal party has your best interests at heart their goal is to create a compliant impoverished society.
Immigration minister says Canada ‘addicted’ to migrant workers
Canadian businesses have become “addicted” to temporary foreign workers, Immigration Minister Marc Miller told the Senate, acknowledging concerns over the country’s growing reliance on migrant labour.
Blacklock’s Reporter says in response, Miller is preparing to introduce a new Immigration Levels Plan in November, which is expected to significantly reduce the number of temporary workers entering Canada.
The Liberals would know they’re the ones that loosened the rules.
Canada has long had one of the world’s most open immigration policies. Now, faced with a growing popular backlash, it’s changing the rules.
A late-night Uber ride from Toronto’s Pearson Airport into the city usually guarantees a good fare for the driver.
But not for Sachindeep Singh on the evening of Sept. 19.
A few miles into the ride, his Uber app stopped working.
Mr. Singh’s work permit had expired at midnight and, like Canada, Uber was putting him on notice.
The federal government is finally acknowledging that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has been too lenient in issuing visas, and that our asylum system is being abused.
Last month, Immigration Minister Marc Miller admitted that Ottawa needed to do a “stronger job” of preventing people who had been given visitor visas from taking advantage of our overly generous policies. He had previously acknowledged that the immigration system had gotten “out of control” and he’s called overseas police checks “unreliable.” He has also said it was “alarming” that increasing numbers of international students were claiming asylum to stay in Canada, and he has drawn attention to India, “where we are seeing people exploiting the visa system.” India was already the main source country for both permanent and temporary residents in Canada; it is now also a source of migrants who are “not legitimate asylum claimants,” according to Mr. Miller.
Mass immigration = Vote harvesting
The Liberal Party means you harm.
Canada’s international student boom went from success to liability over just a few years. Policymakers that promoted the growth are now suddenly passing blame, presenting it as an overwhelming surprise. It turns out the growth was the intended outcome of a $148 million plan, including a new brand jointly owned and operated by the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Governments. Policymakers are now presenting new limits as a response to public outcry, coincidentally in the same year the strategy ended. What timing!
