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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
In 2006, I arrived in Canada from England on a temporary skilled visa, sent by the University of Manchester to Edmonton to advance my training in sports surgeries. Born and raised in India, I completed my medical education there before moving to the UK for postgraduate orthopedic surgery training, spending eight years refining my skills. As the immigration officer handed back my passport that day, his parting words — ”Hope you stay back in Canada” — felt like a personal promise of acceptance and opportunity, an invitation to make Canada home after completing advanced training.
Fast forward to 2024: I did stay in Canada, planted roots, developed a practice, raised a family, and poured my heart into the community in Alberta, which embraced me as their own.
Joao Pedro Da Silva Cordeiro appears to have fully embraced the Canadian way of doing business.
Months before riots erupted in the UK, Dublin was rocked by its worst street violence in decades. On 23 November 2023, more than 60 officers were assaulted, buses and a tram were destroyed, and over a dozen shops were looted or vandalised when an anti-immigration protest turned into a riot. Earlier that day, a man stabbed three children and a care assistant at a Dublin primary school. He was rumoured to be an illegal migrant. Since then, anger over Ireland’s migration crisis has only grown. Asylum applications rose fivefold between 2019 and 2023, with tens of thousands of newcomers now arriving each year, placing pressure on already strained services and adding to an already chronic housing shortage. Asylum hotels in deprived and rural areas have become targets of both peaceful protests and, despicably, arson attacks.
In the past nine years, perhaps no policy has proven to be as harmful for the Canadian society and its economy than the Trudeau government’s immigration policy.
Conventional wisdom suggests that governments defeat themselves. There is a shelf life of every administration because sooner or later the accumulative negatives outweigh the positives and the populous becomes agitated seeing the same faces providing the same excuses. American author Mark Twain summed up this phenomenon rather colourfully when he observed, “Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often, and for the same reasons.”
The media and other Democrats have been working very hard to say that Kamala has not been responsible for the open border policy that allows millions of illegals, including terrorists and gang members, to flood our country.
Sanctuary cities and states have been whining continuously about Texas sending these illegals to them and begging Gov. Greg Abbott to stop.
They are complaining about how much these illegals are costing and how they are running out of room. They are begging the federal government for money.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has launched a Francophone Minorities Communities Student Pilot (FMCSP) to encourage even more immigrants to come to Canada.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller this week announced the program, to be launched August 26. Most of the students will come from Africa. People from France are excluded.
The Liberals have piloted the Canadian immigration system for nearly a decade, and they’ve only abused their time in the cockpit. Turns out, it’s pretty easy to drive the machine into the ground in just nine years.
It’s a shame, because responsible, orderly immigration has been great for Canada, helping create a growing, wonderfully diverse nation with a quality of life unmatched nearly anywhere else in the world.
