It’s time for a grown-up conversation on immigration: Aaron Wudrick in the Hub

Canada has been shaped by large-scale immigration. With the exception of Indigenous Peoples, the vast majority of Canadians today are either immigrants or descendants thereof. Our nation has thrived as a pluralistic and multiethnic society, built through the gradual integration of people from around the world.

While this is largely a good news story it should not obscure a hard truth: in the 21st century, the challenges associated with immigration are vastly different from those of 50 or 100 years ago, and until recently policymakers have been unwilling to discuss immigration policy accordingly. These challenges can be broadly categorized into three areas: economic impact; infrastructure capacity; and cultural friction.

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LILLEY: Trudeau ignored warnings on immigration, now you pay the price

The Trudeau government was warned that their rapid push for higher and higher immigration numbers was having a negative impact on housing and health care across the country. A presentation to the government in 2022 warned of the problems but rather than rethinking or adjusting their policy they pushed ahead.

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‘A system that has gotten out of control’: Immigration minister to consider cap on international students in Canada

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says in the next few months he’ll be looking at the possibility of putting a cap on the number of international students living in Canada, but he wouldn’t say how great a reduction the government is planning on making.

In an interview airing Sunday, the minister told CTV’s Question Period host Vassy Kapelos this is a conversation the federal government will need to have with provincial governments “to make sure that the provinces that have not been doing their jobs actually rein in those numbers on a pure volume basis.”

“That volume is disconcerting,” Miller said, in reference to the number of international students in Canada. “It’s really a system that has gotten out of control.”

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Small Town, USA learns the hard way that welcoming lawbreakers has negative consequences

At this point, Joe Biden and the Bidenites don’t just have a little blood on their hands, they’re bathing in it.

A few days back, AT published an essay by contributor C.S. Boddie that highlighted a recent tragedy in Colorado: an illegal alien, who had been deported four times before, killed a mother and her 16-year-old son, as he drove (allegedly) completely inebriated near a high school. The illegal had four “alcohol-related driving” convictions under his belt, and just days before, he’d received probation, community service, and work release from a Colorado judge; Boddie’s piece also included a number of other “chilling” examples underscoring the deadly consequences of admitting millions of scofflaws.

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German ‘remigration’ debate fuels push to ban far-right AfD

On January 10, the investigative journalism group Correctiv reported on a meeting of politicians from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and neo-Nazis in a hotel in Potsdam in November.

The meeting focused on a topic that the participants referred to as “remigration.” The term stands for the return, forced or otherwise, of “migrants” to their place of origin — regardless of their citizenship status.

Right-populist and extreme-right groups use that term to refer to mass deportations and expulsions of migrants and their descendants. According to Correctiv, the invitation for the meeting in Potsdam mentioned that an “overall concept, in the sense of a master plan” was on the agenda.


One day we will have this discussion in Canada without fear in a free and unfettered manner.

Bear in Mind that DW is one of about 30 different state funded media outlets in Germany.

They will preach the establishment line no matter what.

On the rare occasion DW has opened comments on an article the ratio has been through the roof.

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Ottawa’s inaction is fraying the consensus on immigration

It’s a stunning, yet entirely predictable, turnaround in public opinion.

Less than a year ago, polling by Nanos Research showed 61 per cent of Canadians thought that immigration levels should either be increased or stay the same, in keeping with a decades-old consensus that welcomes newcomers to this country.

Public opinion has inverted, according to Nanos. In December, 61 per cent of Canadians said immigration levels should be reduced, with just 34 per cent still believing that Canada should maintain or increase the number of newcomers.


I think the alleged concensus around immigration was fraying far earlier especially among urban dwellers.

The myth was propped up by the fact that until recently merely raising the topic of immigration policy was to risk being labeled a racist by the political and chattering classes.

This was done at the behest of the corporate class who to this day dictate Canada’s immigration policy to the detriment of everyone save themselves and their political minions. 

The stopper on immigration discussion was only removed in the past year as the ruling class no doubt sensed an imminent explosion.

It’s a start that ideally will result in the will of citizens being made paramount in designing immigration policy.

Our politicians have proven they cannot be trusted to act in our best interests.

One aspect of mass immigration the MSM refuses to address is the impact on society caused by the introduction of incompatible cultures.

Our MSM won’t touch Islam’s clash with western culture despite vast numbers of marauding Hamas supporters in the streets of every major western city.

Despite decades of living under the constant threat of Islamist terrorism and the encroachment of sharia law in society.

Islam’s harmful presence has been an exercise in the tolerance of the intolerant made possible by the elite’s embrace of racist doctrines such as DEI and CRT and the dissent crushing cancel culture bludgeons of official multiculturalism and diversity.

Not all cultures are equal and that is indisputable.

No wave of immigration has cost societies across the west more than Islam.

The dollars spent on domestic policing to keep the Hamas mobs in check is likely already in the millions in Canada alone.

The kowtowing of our political class to ethnic strongmen is a shameless insult to Canada and emboldens groups to import their pet hatreds and battle it out in our streets.

But no longer.

The sacred cows too long off limits in the polite society of our (Often government subsidized) betters are being slaughtered one by one.

Pity the MSM and our mainstream political parties remain behind the curve.

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Douglas Todd: Why so many Canadians are moving out of Vancouver, the province and the country

Vernon Mayor Victor Cumming is highly aware that a lot of British Columbians are on the move.

He’s getting to know the young parents who come to his mid-sized Okanagan city from Metro Vancouver to escape extreme housing costs and to stretch their money further while enjoying easy access to outdoor recreation.

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Freeland on why immigration levels are high: ‘Canada has the social capacity to welcome immigrants’

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made a stop Thursday in Toronto’s Canary Landing, a new rental community just east of the city’s downtown, to discuss the government’s new housing plans. But a question about recent warnings concerning immigration levels and housing supply elicited a less than satisfactory response.

Filthy liar.

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Trudeau botched immigration surge, Canada’s top bank economists say

Canada’s current immigration policy — among the most open in the world — is now causing economic damage and needs to be reconsidered, according the country’s top economists.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to dramatically increase immigration — and allow a flood of temporary workers and international students — without providing proper support has created a laundry list of economic problems, including higher inflation and weak productivity, chief economists at Canada’s biggest banks said Thursday during a wide-ranging panel discussion in Toronto.

… “I’ll put it bluntly: We’ve fallen into the population trap,” said Stéfane Marion, chief economist at National Bank of Canada. An increase in the standard of living is no longer possible because “you don’t have enough savings to stabilize your capital to labor ratio.”

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Trudeau Liberals Deliberately Caused Profound Economic Harm To Canadians: The Government Was Warned 2 Years Ago Immigration Is Making Canada’s Housing Unaffordable

Federal public servants warned the government two years ago that large increases to immigration could affect housing affordability and services, internal documents show.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press through an access-to-information request show Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada analyzed the potential effects immigration would have on the economy, housing and services, as it prepared its immigration targets for 2023-2025.

The deputy minister, among others, was warned in 2022 that housing construction had not kept up with the pace of population growth.


In my view this is a cruel criminal act that has caused deep and lasting harm to Canada’s social fabric.

Trudeau’s Liberals have harmed virtually all citizens the most vulnerable of whom can no longer afford rent or even dream of home ownership.

Only Trudeau’s vile corporate cronies have benefitted from this greed driven plot.

Does no law exist that can remove Trudeau from office?

Expect no help from the CPC as they are committed to the same destructive mass immigration policy.

Sadly that lickspittle Singh will continue to support that pig Trudeau.

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Over 355,000 Foreign Students Were Allowed to Remain in Canada as Permanent Residents in the Past 3 Years

Canada has granted permanent residency to more than 355,000 foreign students over the past three years, according to recent disclosures by the Department of Immigration.

These students are part of a larger group of over 627,000 former temporary residents who obtained permanent residency during the same period, spanning from 2021 to 2023, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter. These numbers coincide with the highest federal immigration quotas in Canadian history.

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This once-safe, picturesque, all-American Wisconsin town has turned into an unsafe sh*thole, thanks to illegals…

Another one bites the dust, and we’re not referencing the classic Queen song here. This time, it’s about yet another nostalgic, quintessentially American small town losing its charm. This time, illegals have taken over and destroyed the town of Whitewater, Wisconsin, a once lovely place to call home that has turned into a den of grime and inequity.

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‘Nil’ research done on impact of foreign students working unlimited hours: Report

Access-to-information records showed that federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller allowed hundreds of thousands of foreign students to work unlimited hours without researching the impact on unemployed Canadians.

The Liberals made sure their Corporate cronies have plenty of low wage slaves.

We are governed by Dickheads.

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Small Towns Overrun by Migrants Begin Pleading for Help as Biden’s Border Crisis Worsens

The migrant crisis that has rocked New York and Chicago and other big sanctuary cities has jumped its traces. Now, in a new development, small cities and towns across America are being inundated with migrants being bused from the southern border and impacting local law enforcement and city services.

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Canada’s Foreign Student Surge Prompts Changes, and Anxiety

The education consultant in India didn’t reveal to Maninderjit Kaur, a Canada-bound student, where exactly, relative to Toronto, the college she had enrolled in was.

Ms. Kaur told my colleague, Norimitsu Onishi, that after a never-ending Uber ride — eight hours and 800 Canadian dollars later — she had ended up in Timmins, Ontario, a place she had never heard of.

But, as Nori reported, finishing a degree in this remote city was perhaps less of an isolating experience given that 82 percent of students at Northern College in Timmins are foreign nationals, mostly from India.

The Trudeau government has turned Canada’s immigration system into a giant scam.

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