“Mass Immigration – Follow the money”

I continue to be weirded out by the unfamiliar, almost uncanny nature of what I think we can call Canada’s immigration crisis — i.e., the apparent effects on labour markets, housing, services and infrastructure of an ill-managed and virtually unprecedented deluge of humanity. (And, no, I don’t think the super-immigration of the homesteading era qualifies as a precedent.) What’s unfamiliar about this is that critiques of government immigration policy have been led, in Canada, almost exclusively by economists. There is as yet no sign of widespread populist revolt against very high immigration; it is the bean-counters, the nerdy jugglers of abstractions, who are losing their patience with Liberal heedlessness.

Since coming to office in 2015, the Trudeau government has made foreign study in Canada a parallel immigration system, effectively doubling the number of newcomers it admits every year by giving the process another title.

Hundreds of thousands of students gain easy admission to loosely designated “career colleges,” at which they take nine to 12 months of business training. During their time as students, they are able to work up to 40 hours a week (to be cut back to 24 hours a week by Ottawa as of Sept. 1).

Court documents show federal immigration officials warned that the government risked undermining the temporary immigration system with the design of the emergency visa program for war-displaced Ukrainians.

Immigration Department staff raised the concern in a memo to Sean Fraser, immigration minister at the time, shortly after the program was announced.

The documents were disclosed as part of a lawsuit against the federal government by two Afghan Canadians, who allege Canada discriminated against Afghan refugees by treating them differently than it did Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.

Sounds like another open the floodgates gambit.