Scores of asylum claimants waiting for their cases to be assessed have in the past few days been warned by the Immigration Department they may imminently face deportation, with many letters sent the day after a bill tightening up asylum rules became law.
Immigration lawyers said the letters have caused panic among clients waiting for their cases to be assessed by the independent Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) and who now face removal from Canada.
OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s refugee tribunal told a parliamentary committee Monday that she does not know the name of a suspected senior Iranian regime official whose identity her own board concealed from the public in a deportation hearing — and that the concealment was granted at the man’s own request.
No, Canada will not take 60 million more Indians. Let’s send the 2.8 million we have back to India.
If you needed proof that the federal Liberals have completely lost the plot on immigration, look no further than the statements coming from India’s High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K. Patnaik.
In a recent interview with CBC News, Patnaik suggested that because of our “complementary economies,” Canada should be eager to welcome an additional 60 million Indians.
Let that number sink in for a moment. Sixty million.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/25sH1N7Nof
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) March 3, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
Alleged Serbian war criminal Goran Pavic has failed to derail the federal government’s attempt to prove he obtained Canadian citizenship by fraudulent means and that he should be deemed inadmissible to this country.
Now that the immigration system — in particular, as it relates to refugees — has come under the harsh light of public scrutiny, Justice Minister Sean Fraser is lashing out at its critics: “We are dealing with, in some instances, some of the most vulnerable people in the world,” he said Wednesday, implying that anyone who touches the issue is a bully.
But the Liberal handling of the immigration file — including Fraser’s personal handling of it from 2021 to 2023 — gives Canadians plenty of reason to question the asylum system. Immigration officials for years have been mass-approving refugee applications from some of the most dangerous countries in the world by simply rubber-stamping paperwork without an in-person hearing. Untold numbers of fraudsters, terrorists and criminals now have protected person status in Canada, giving them access to generous state benefits and a much higher bar to deportation if convicted of a crime.
A federal program to provide health care for refugees is — once again — sparking a fiery debate
The Conservatives believe the cost of the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), which provides health-care benefits to refugee and asylum claimants living in Canada, needs to be curtailed. And the Liberals might not entirely disagree — in last fall’s budget they announced plans to require claimants to cover a share of some costs.
But the Conservatives are pushing much further, both in proposed action and rhetoric.
The jungle drums beat out the mantra “call them racists”.
Canada’s immigration, refugee and asylum system has long been broken, and to claim any questioning of it is based on racism, as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet ministers often do when they are challenged by the Conservatives, is absurd.
The federal immigration department is acknowledging mounting “integrity pressures” and potential fraud within Canada’s refugee system, even as Liberal MPs downplay concerns about bogus claims.
Blacklock’s Reporter says in a formal Response To A Request For Information tabled with the Senate social affairs committee, the department of Immigration Minister Lena Diab conceded there is no single metric to precisely measure fraud in the asylum process.
An insider report authored by a former director of policy at Immigration with the Canadian government has shown that, for nearly a decade, Canada let in 25,000 asylum seekers without any of them ever being properly vetted.
The report, by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute, and authored by James Yousif, who is the former director of policy at Immigration, noted how the federal government “slashed all its usual controls to weed out fraudsters, human traffickers and terrorists” in letting these people into the nation.
Smith and Poilievre find someone to blame for their problems: immigrants
Danielle Smith has a problem. Her government is heading toward a deficit projected, before Thursday’s budget, at $10-billion. This is only partly because it overestimated oil revenues, with oil prices now projected at roughly $5 to $10 a barrel lower than forecast in last year’s budget. It is because the government set spending at levels that could only be sustained so long as the oil boom continued. She needs something, or someone, to blame for her excess spending.
Pierre Poilievre, too, has a problem…
POILIEVRE: Mass immigration ruined the quality of healthcare. Resources are going to illegals.
CARNEY: This isn't America. EVERYONE gets healthcare.
POILIEVRE: 100,000 DIED on waitlists due to out-of-control immigration
CARNEY: I have been PM for a year! pic.twitter.com/9mv4XIOw17
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) February 24, 2026
“We have the immigration system under control!” Prime Minister Mark Carney shouted during Question Period Tuesday.
Conservative Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre could not disagree more. (Nor should the millions of Canadians without family doctors, or the thousands sitting on health-care waitlists.) Poilievre is on a tear against Liberal immigration policy and what he alleges is its detrimental impact on Canadians’ access to healthcare.
WATCH: Pierre Poilievre asks Mark Carney about the gold-plated health plan given even to people whose asylum claims are rejected. pic.twitter.com/XNYZApNs1U
— Brian Lilley (@brianlilley) February 24, 2026
REJECTED asylum claimants are receiving vision care, physiotherapy, counseling and more
While 6 MILLION Canadians can’t find a family doctor
24,000 Canadians died on waitlists in 2024
How is it possible that people with no legal right to stay get better coverage than citizens? pic.twitter.com/CvZNEUiTOO
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) February 24, 2026
The federal government is going to slash its immigrant settlement funding by $98.1 million this year, including a 17.3 per cent reduction for organizations that support newcomers in Ontario, the Star has learned.
The across-the-board funding reductions outside Quebec are expected to affect all services, including employment counselling, information and orientation, translation help for appointments and other supports to assist newcomer integration. Newcomer women and caregivers, survivors of trauma, people with disabilities and others who are likely to delay language and other programs are feared to be disproportionately affected, though refugee services won’t be affected by the cuts.
We should be demanding a higher standard of resourcefulness from those accepted into Canada or better yet close the border.
Let me introduce to you…Our Health Minister
MARJORIE MICHEL
She thinks that Asylum Seekers deserve better Healthcare than Canadian citizens pic.twitter.com/aorFh6QLsF
— Ivano Defazio 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇺🇸 (@DefazioIvano) February 24, 2026
White supremacist rally at city hall a ‘blatant act of hate’
Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath is condemning a rally by a white supremacist organization at city hall.
Police were called by city hall security to the protest around 1 p.m. Sunday, said Const. Trevor McKenna.
… While the incident is considered hate-motivated and will be tracked by the police hate crime unit, police said there were no reports of criminal activity.
Photos of the rally show members of the group giving Nazi salutes. The group often protests and shares anti-immigration posts on social media and call for “white men” to “fight back.”
Notice the double standard? Would a BLM or Pallie rally, both genuinely racist and violent groups, receive similar treatment by the “authorities’?
You don’t have to side with the group’s ideology to agree this is really about criminalizing all dissenting views critical of mass immigration. It’s an anti-democratic demonization tactic carried out by our Liberal-Left pols and their fellow travelers in the media since forever. See this TDS driven nonsense in today’s Star for additional proof.
By the way Andrea did you condemn BLM a truly racist and violent movement? If not then why the double standard? As far as I know the group protesting has not committed any acts of violence other than to your extreme-left views supporting Great Replacement level mass immigration.
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) February 23, 2026
OTTAWA — The Conservatives plan to put a motion before the House of Commons on Tuesday aimed at reviewing how health benefits are provided to asylum seekers and restricting who has access to those services.
The planned text of the motion, which has been shared with The Canadian Press, says the cost of the Interim Federal Health Program has more than quadrupled since the 2020 fiscal year, growing from $211 million to $896 million in 2024-25.
That data was pulled from a report by the parliamentary budget officer published earlier this month.
They should only be offered MAiD like Canadian citizens, that’ll send them packing back home.
IN SPITE of a sharp fall in net migration, new figures have revealed that more money than ever is being channelled in personal remittances from the UK to migrant countries of origin.
In 2025 alone, Pakistan received £4.24billion in remittances, narrowly surpassing India at £4.17billion. Combined, more than £8.4billion was sent to just these two countries, a figure that continues to rise year-on-year as established migrant communities maintain close financial ties back home.
