CHARLEBOIS: How Canada’s immigration U-turn could shake up food chain

In response to mounting immigration challenges and high youth employment rates, the federal government has finally decided to tighten its Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).

Starting Sept. 26, the government will suspend the processing of Labour Market Impact Assessments for the Low-Wage stream of the TFWP in specific census metropolitan areas. This suspension will apply to cities where the unemployment rate is 6% or higher, though the exact locations have yet to be disclosed. While exceptions will be made for sectors critical to food security — such as primary agriculture, food processing, and fish processing — the food service industry will not be spared from these changes.

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Ottawa needs to abolish the temporary foreign worker program

Canadians are understandably confused by the state of our international migration programs.

The two main pathways by which people are admitted to Canada to work are as economic immigrants (who can stay permanently) and temporary foreign workers. And the public discourse on the two pathways has been contradictory.

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Liberals say they will rein in temporary foreign worker program now that their Great Replacement Scam has done its intended damage of altering Canada’s demographic

Housing Minister Sean Fraser said Sunday that the federal government will curb the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) coming into the country after a post-COVID surge that some researchers say has driven up youth and immigrant unemployment rates.

Speaking to reporters in Dartmouth, N.S., before the start of a Liberal cabinet retreat in neighbouring Halifax, Fraser justified the government’s past decision — made while he was immigration minister — to relax regulations around the TFW program as necessary at a time of pandemic-related staff shortages.

But he acknowledged that the dynamic is different now that there are signs of stress in the labour market.

Historic Influx? It was a Great Replacement scam to secure future votes and destroy the value of labour. Fraser is a despicable liar.

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Why aren’t left-wing anti-immigration parties called fascists?

It is almost six years to the day since the charismatic German left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht launched a new movement to counter the rise of the far-right in her country.

What distinguished ‘Aufstehen’ (Stand Up) from the rest of the left was its negative view of mass immigration. Wagenknecht’s movement was greeted more with curiosity than animosity by the left-wing European press. Under the headline, ‘The emergence of an anti-migrant left in Germany’, the French paper, Le Monde, said it might herald ‘the start of a promising adventure, which could profoundly shake up the country’s political life’.

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Mike Moffatt: The time has come to upend Canada’s temporary foreign worker program

Outside of 2020, when we were in lockdown, 2024 has been the worst year on record for teenagers to get a summer job, whether as a cashier at a convenience store or selling ice cream.

Despite the challenges teenagers are currently having in the job market, the number of temporary foreign workers approved for those same positions has never been higher, thanks to the federal government’s deregulation of the temporary foreign worker program in 2022.

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The sudden rise of temporary foreign workers in entry-level office jobs … But The Great Replacement That’s A Conspiracy!

Temporary foreign workers are no longer a rare presence in entry-level office roles.

Last year, employers were approved to hire more than 3,500 administrative assistants via the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, up from just 112 of those roles approved in 2016, according to figures published by the federal government. In addition, companies were authorized to hire nearly 2,000 administrative officers in 2023. (The TFW program accounts for a small share of foreign labour in Canada, so it’s likely that other pathways are being tapped for admin workers, too.)

What a scam, Trudeau and his cronies are working to alter Canada’s demographic so the Liberals can harvest votes and the corporate welfare class can profit by destroying the value of labour.

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Since 2015, less than 1 percent of permanent residents admitted to Canada have been through the Federal Skilled Trades Program

Less than half of one percent of the total permanent residents admitted to Canada since 2015 have been through the federal government’s Federal Skilled Trades Program.

According to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s (IRCC) quarterly update of permanent residents admitted to Canada, between 2015 and 2023, the total number of people admitted to the country based on their skilled trade qualifications was just 9,924.

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LILLEY: Toronto City Hall rolls out the open borders welcome mat

Forget just being a sanctuary city, Toronto is now officially advocating for citizenship for all illegal immigrants.

Sorry, let me put that in the terms that our better thans at City Hall would find acceptable – undocumented residents.

It’s just a fancy way to say that someone came here, or stayed here, against the rules.

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Misuse of the temporary foreign worker program is a business racket

Standing by a lectern with a sign that read “Bring Home Our Jobs,” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre had words for both the government and for businesses that he implied were abusing Canada’s temporary foreign workers program.

“Trudeau has destroyed our entire immigration system,” he said, referring to the massive expansion of workers applying under the low-wage labour market impact assessment (LMIA) stream.

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Canada Is On Track for Record Asylum Claims This Year

The closing of the unofficial border crossing Roxham Road last year stemmed the flow of asylum-seekers into Quebec from New York state, but overall numbers are rising in Canada with a spike in those arriving by air. The rise has many reasons behind it and can’t be accounted for by the growing scope of global conflict alone, immigration experts told The Epoch Times.

A major contributor is likely an increase in travel visa approvals.

No question Trudeau is deliberately altering Canada’s demographic to harvest future votes.

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Canada can’t cynically rebrand temporary foreign workers and call it a day

In the span of just over a year, immigration went from a political non-starter to regular headline news. Now, just about everybody–including the federal Liberals–agrees immigration simply can’t continue as is. Unfortunately, “can’t continue as is” is manifesting more as a rebranding exercise than a substantial policy overhaul.

In 2022, the federal government dramatically expanded the low-wage Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) stream, which predictably resulted in exploitative working conditions, surging youth unemployment, and stagnant wage growth. The Wild Westification of the program has been bad for Canadians and newcomers alike.

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Liberals hope to import enough foreigners to secure election victories in 2029 and beyond

Liberals go hog wild on immigration, hoping to secure victory in 2029 and beyond

You would think a government that’s down 20 points might want to telegraph an aura of sanity, rather than spend its days finding new ways to eviscerate an immigration policy that has served Canada well since Lester Pearson led the Liberal party.

In a vacuum, some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s changes might seem justified: whether it be the streamlined $7 electronic visas, or broadening refugee claims beyond the U.N.’s definition of those facing “persecution” to include accumulated “intersectional” experiences.


Why this sounds like the Great Replacement!

The Star is now publishing content on immigration that would have had them calling you a racist 1 or 2 years ago.

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The Media Bristle at Inconvenient Facts on Immigration

They can’t handle the truth.

The media are on the case.

The NewYorkTimes just published a report headlined “In JD Vance’s Backyard, Conspiracy Theories About Migrants and Voting Abound.”

A new, exhaustive Washington Post report finds, as the headline puts it, “Republicans flood TV with misleading ads about immigration, border.”

Meanwhile, the press has deemed a Trump claim about immigrants and jobs “debunked.”

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Quebec to limit temporary foreign workers in Montreal with six-month freeze

Quebec is implementing a six-month freeze on the intake of new temporary foreign workers for low-wage jobs in Montreal starting in September, the province’s premier said Tuesday.

François Legault’s announcement comes as his government has been calling for a “significant and rapid” reduction in the number of temporary immigrants in Quebec. The total number across the province has doubled to 600,000 from 300,000 in just two years, he said.

Six decades is a better idea.

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