Most Canadians still think Canada is accepting too many immigrants, and many don’t trust newcomers: poll

Most Canadians believe the country is admitting too many immigrants and many do not trust the newcomers, new polling shows.

The national Leger poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies and the Metropolis Institute found that 62 per cent of people think that the country is currently admitting too many immigrants. That’s an increase of four percentage points since pollsters last asked the question in March 2025, and more than double the number of people who felt that way six years ago. In the most recent poll, only 20 per cent disagreed and 19 per cent said they don’t know.

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Over 3 million temporary residents now in Canada, including 129,000 with expired permits

Canada’s population of temporary residents has surpassed 3 million, making up 18.5% of the country’s private sector workforce, according to a newly released federal briefing.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the figures, which include more than 129,000 individuals now living in the country without valid permits, were outlined in a May 1 memo from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

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CHARLEBOIS: Time for Canadians to serve themselves

Crushed a generation’s dreams

The federal government’s recent overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) for food service has prompted predictable outcry from restaurant operators.

As of January 2025, new caps limit TFWs to just 10% of a food service business’s workforce — down from 20% or more in recent years — and shorten work permits from two years to one. But this policy shift is not punitive. It reflects an overdue economic recalibration.

Put plainly, the TFWP in food service has run its course.

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Geoff Russ: The data is in — fewer newcomers in Canada means lower rent

For too long, Canadians have been misled about the benefits of largely unchecked immigration growth.

Between 2016 and 2023, an average of 612,000 people were admitted annually to Canada on a permanent and temporary basis. There were assurances made that it was all beneficial, while the consequences for housing, wages, or jobs were downplayed.

While in the past a well managed immigration system has been good for Canada, the most recent data reveal the supposed benefits of the Liberals’ mass immigration plans were all a sham.

All immigration must cease and mass deportations instituted.

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Auditor-General planning audit of international student program

The federal Auditor-General’s office is planning an audit of the international student program, which has been mired in controversy over a rapid influx of foreign students in recent years.

A spokesperson for the office confirmed to The Globe and Mail that there will be an audit, and a report is expected to be tabled in Parliament next year.

Carney will continue with cosmetic cuts to immigration but the Great Replacement scam will go on.

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23 Quebec business owners launch $300 million lawsuit over temporary foreign worker permits

A group of Quebec business owners have launched a $300 million lawsuit against the federal government this month, arguing they’re facing bankruptcy if Ottawa goes ahead with its plan to reduce the number of foreign workers coming into Canada.

The heads of the 23 businesses, which make everything from steel products to winter jackets and airplane parts, say temporary foreign workers are essential to stay afloat.

With Ottawa is pushing to reduce the number of permits its issues, employers are upset.


Subsidized wages for “foreign workers” paid for by tax dollars? Cost savings from never having to train new employees? There has to be a reason these captains of Industry love their slaves.

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‘Now it’s quiet, we can swim’ – After foreigners banned from Swiss pool, season ticket sales surge and police incidents stop

After all foreigners were banned from a Swiss swimming pool in Porrentruy over violence, sexual harassment and constant disturbances, Swiss visitors to the pool and employees are generally expressing happiness with the move.

The ban, which came about after “French youths with a migration background” continuously caused problems at the pool and in pool bathrooms, including sexual harassment of young girls. The situation even sparked international headlines.

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Ottawa notes rising youth joblessness but ignores foreign student competition

A federal labour department memo acknowledged growing joblessness among young Canadians but failed to mention the government’s own decision to allow over 1 million foreign students into the workforce.

“Youth unemployment is on the rise,” said a June 12 briefing note to Labour Minister Patty Hajdu titled Employment And Skills Support For Canada’s Youth.

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The people of Epping are fed up of being ignored

‘We are facing a long, hot summer’, warned a report social cohesion on Tuesday, ‘with a powder keg of tensions left largely unaddressed from last year that could easily ignite once again’. It only took two days for the first sign of this grim prediction coming true.

This time, though, the expression of public fury at migration failures was not in ‘left-behind’ northern towns like Hull or Hartlepool – or even like last month in Ballymena, where tight-knit loyalist communities have a history of kicking off to defend their interests. Thursday’s protests – and later clashes – at an asylum hotel were in the quiet Essex market town of Epping, population 12,000, mentioned in the Domesday Book and a well-heeled part of the London commuter belt at the terminus of the Central Line.

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Singh Transport … Again

Speeding transport driver nabbed with $4.4 million in contraband tobacco along Hwy. 401 in Kingston

… Inside, OPP and MTO officers discovered the trailer was filled with over 17,820 kilograms of contraband; fine-cut tobacco with an estimated value was $4.4 million.

According to the officer, that equates to a total federal and provincial tack loss of approximately $9.1 million.

The driver, 60-year-old Joga Singh Dhillon of Puslinch Township near Cambridge, has been charged with trafficking contraband tobacco.

h/t DS

 

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Michael Taube: Poilievre’s right — Canada needs a hard cap on immigration

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has long recognized what the Liberals have only started to acknowledge: immigration levels in Canada are too high and unsustainable. He has a plan to get things back under control, and it’s a sensible political strategy to take.

Poilievre suggested a new immigration policy for the Conservatives in June. “We want severe limits on population growth to reverse the damage the Liberals did to our system,” he said at a press conference last month. “The population has been growing out of control, our border has been left wide open. This has caused the free flow of drugs, illegal migration, human trafficking and much worse.”

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Newcomers to Canada Caused 11 to 21 Percent of Housing Price Increases: Department of Immigration

Immigrants arriving in Canada led to a rise in housing prices, accounting for 11 percent of the price increase in smaller towns and 21 percent in cities of more than 100,000 people, according to the Immigration Department.

According to the report “Immigration and Housing Prices Across Municipalities in Canada,” municipal data across Canada from 2006 to 2021 suggest that over the study period, “the rise in the influx of new immigrants, who arrived in Canada within the past five years, on average, accounted for 11 percent of the rise in median house values and in median rents across municipalities with a population of at least 1,000.”

The report, first covered by Blacklock’s Reporter, said this association was “notably more pronounced” in larger municipalities.

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Controversy after two newcomers to Canada receive no jail for GTA sex offences

Debate is raging online about two criminal cases involving newcomers to Canada being found guilty of sexual offences yet being sentenced to no jail time, with one key divergence.

In one case, the permanent resident was spared jail time, despite aggravating circumstances, so that his ability to sponsor relatives to come to Canada would not be impacted.


There’s no debate, unless it involves thickness of rope or caliber of bullet.

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Indian refugee claimant’s story ‘strikingly similar’ to nearly 200 others who used same consultant

A young Indian man, denied refugee status in Canada because his story of being framed for his friend’s murder was “strikingly similar” to five people who travelled here with him and nearly 200 others who employed the same immigration consultant, has won another chance at staying in Canada.


The Liberal government is our Joe Biden. h/t DS

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Canada’s immigration system, once admired for its fairness and balance, has drifted into crisis

Seventeen thousand. That’s the approximate number of individuals with criminal convictions who were admitted to Canada over the past decade.The government has not disclosed how many of those convictions were for serious offences that could have otherwise barred entry.

This number, recently revealed by the CTV news and the lack of transparency, raises concerns of the integrity of our immigration system.

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