Jamie Sarkonak: European citizens claiming asylum in Canada is a fraud

Earlier this month, the Federal Court gave a family seeking refugee status another shot at remaining in Canada. But they weren’t fleeing war — they were fleeing Spain.

The family (aside from the mother) were Spanish nationals who claimed that they were being pursued by a transnational criminal organization, and that police were so useless that it warranted refugee status in Canada. Originally from Latin America, they moved to Europe when the father allegedly received a death threat from the gang in question.

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From Sham Marriages to Fake Colleges: Inside Canada’s Battle Against Immigration Fraud

Federal and provincial governments have announced measures to crack down on immigration fraud by toughening regulations and even closing entire programs. But what if these moves are merely scratching the surface of a much larger problem?

This past December, Canada’s immigration department announced a halt on applications for the Start-up Visa (SUV) Program, which had allowed foreign entrepreneurs to move to Canada to start new businesses.

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It is the right time – socially and economically – to scale back extended health benefits for refugees

On June 18, 2012, doctors and other health care workers all across the country staged a walkout to protest the government’s changes to refugee health care benefits in Canada. Roughly two months earlier, the Stephen Harper government had announced that cuts were coming to the Interim Federal Health Program (IFHP), which provides temporary health care coverage for refugees in Canada.

The IFHP had covered both basic care and extended services, such as vision, dental, and prescription medication, but that was ending: as of June 30, that extended coverage would be eliminated (with the exception of immunizations or medications for diseases that pose a public health risk) for all refugee claimants, and refugee claimants from designated “safe” countries would see their coverage pared back almost entirely.

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2.1M temporary residents will have expired or expiring permits this year. But will they leave Canada?

How immigration policy is made in Canada.

Abhishek Parmar has spent more than six years making Windsor-Essex his new home. But now he is one of the 2.1 million temporary residents who may have to leave Canada this year.

“I have never even thought of leaving this place,” he said. “And now, things are coming to an end. It is not a good feeling.”

The 25-year-old arrived in Windsor-Essex in 2019 from India to pursue mechanical engineering technology at St. Clair College. After having spent more than $80,000 on tuition and living expenses, Parmar said he landed a job at an automotive company in LaSalle. He filed for permanent residence (PR) in 2024 with an Ontario immigration pathway.


Of course not, Carney and his corporate pals love the profits to be had from cheap foreign labour.

The Liberals are following the same play book as the Democrats did in the US.  Weaponized open borders.

If the US were to invade Canada I would not heed a call to arms.

I will not “defend” a ruling class that has impoverished Canadian citizens through mass immigration and the “Green” destruction of our economy. 

A blight upon the land. h/t Mauser

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Anti-immigrant sentiment rises with loss of consensus on immigration policy

OTTAWA — Canada’s long-held consensus on immigration — that it’s a net positive for the country — has been coming apart in recent years.

Roughly half of the population thinks too many immigrants have been coming to Canada, according to several private polling firms.

That parallels a government survey from November 2024, when 54 per cent of respondents to a phone survey conducted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said “too many” immigrants were coming to Canada.


It’s not “anti-immigrant” to fight back when your country is being stolen from under your feet, when you can’t buy a home, afford rent or even find a job because the elites profit from the cheap foreign labour they import.

It’s called self-defense and it’s not racist.

The Liberals are cooking the books and actually staying on track to nearly meet Trudeaus nation killing goals.

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The fiscal case for mass migration is being demolished

Christmas without Muslim Bollards

Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention.

Many people can’t have read it, because it is full of incendiary details which demolish the case for mass migration.

The MAC is ‘an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office’. It is not a political body, and its board is comprised of sober, sensible academics, who have set out to model ‘net fiscal impact’ – the costs, or benefits to the taxpayer of different kinds of migration. It’s worth noting that they do not seek to model second- or third-order costs of migration, such as housing costs, crime or long-term suppression of wages and birth rates.

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Extortion suspects have all claimed refugee status, Canada’s border agency says

Canada’s plan to expel those behind B.C.’s extortion epidemic has hit a roadblock after every single suspect sent for a deportation hearing claimed refugee status.

The foreign nationals were identified by B.C.’s Extortion Task Force, but once the Canada Border Services Agency began investigating them, all claimed to be refugees.

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Jamie Sarkonak: When your food bank donations subsidize fraud and video games

Food banks are struggling, but it’s hard to feel charitable when some people treat them like an immigration perk

The struggling food bank has been a recurring motif in the news in recent weeks. Food aid agencies across the country are presenting various regional hunger reports to the public, and the results are consistently depressing: usage is higher than ever, donations are down and “we don’t know how we’re going to keep up.”

On the other hand, food bank abuse seems to be a recurring problem. What’s being done to prevent it from happening? It’s not all that clear.


From Grok – What percentage of foodbank users in the GTA are not Canadian citizens?

43% of food bank users in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are not Canadian citizens, according to the most recent data from the Daily Bread Food Bank’s Who’s Hungry Report 2024. This report, based on surveys of over 1,300 clients across 79 food banks in Toronto (a core part of the GTA) and intake data from the city’s Link2Feed system, covers the period from April 2023 to March 2024. It shows that among all surveyed clients, 57% are Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples, while the remaining 43% include temporary residents (22%, such as international students and work visa holders), refugee claimants (12%), those under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program (6%), and undocumented individuals (1%).

This figure reflects a slight increase in non-citizens compared to 2023 (when 49% were non-citizens). Among new clients—those visiting for the first time, who make up 57% of total visits—the share is higher at 73%, with 80% of them being newcomers to Canada (less than 5 years in the country). Overall visits reached a record 3.49 million, up 38% from the previous year, highlighting rising food insecurity amid economic pressures like housing costs and inflation.

For context, this aligns with national trends from Food Banks Canada’s HungerCount 2024, where 34% of clients nationwide are recent newcomers (in Canada 10 years or less), but GTA data shows a higher concentration of non-citizens due to the region’s diverse immigrant population.


Like locusts.

Donations subsidize the ruin of our society.

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Liberal Party opened the door to more than a million foreign students working in Canada without ever examining how the move would affect young Canadians

Ottawa says it opened the door to more than a million foreign students working in Canada without ever examining how the move would affect young Canadians trying to find jobs.

Blacklocks’ Reporter says the immigration department now acknowledges it relied on a single survey sent only to foreign students, even as unemployment for Canadian students climbed above 16% in several provinces.


We need recall legislation. (Incognito)

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Trump: Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’ from migration

Europe faces “civilisational erasure” if it does not cut migration, according to a National Security Strategy released by the White House that signals an unprecedented level of intervention.

The continent will be “unrecognisable in 20 years or less” if present trends continue, the 29-page document warns, adding that several nations could be “majority non-European”.

The strategy document, which laid out the Trump administration’s priorities across the globe, warns that Europe’s migration policies are “creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition”.

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Rempel exposes Liberal immigration minister Lena Diab as a half-wit

‘You are a very bad minister,’ Conservative immigration critic says at tense committee meeting

Immigration Minister Lena Diab sparred with her Conservative critic at a tense House of Commons committee meeting Thursday as the two disagreed on everything from immigration levels and deporting non-citizen criminals to what kind of salad they prefer.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner put Diab in the hot seat throughout her two-hour committee appearance, grilling Diab about her file and accusing her of being “a very bad minister” when she struggled to give a clear answer on whether she will use powers under the government’s pending C-12 legislation to mass extend temporary visas.

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HUNTER: Gun-toting Trudeau Tourist atop extortion racket given bail

Somewhere in the sewer that is the Canadian justice system, someone thought it a grand idea to spring Trudeau Tourist Bandhumaan Sekhon.

That he was the recipient of the largesse at a Peel Region courthouse should come as no surprise. The region northwest of Toronto has become the favoured dumping ground for a small army of woke, wildly unqualified judges.

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Thousands of former international students’ visas will expire soon. What happens next is murky

Tens of thousands of international students who were granted postgraduate work permits will see their visas expire this year, casting doubt on their futures in Canada and leading economists to wonder if some will stay in the country as undocumented residents.

There were 31,610 people with valid postgraduate work permits in the country as of Sept. 30, and those visas will expire by Dec. 31, according to data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) provided to The Globe and Mail.

Those numbers have recently come under scrutiny by economists and immigration experts because it’s unclear how many temporary residents remain in the country after their visas expire, adding to the undocumented population.

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Boo Hoo! Here’s how much the cuts to Canada’s international students have hurt Ontario colleges and universities

Ontario colleges and universities have been hit with more than $4.6 billion in lost revenues amid the drastic cuts to international students, new post-secondary figures obtained by the Star show.
And with Ottawa just announcing even fewer foreign students for 2026, for universities alone the impact is expected to increase from the $2.1 billion blow they are already dealing with.
The new numbers have the province’s universities now warning they “cannot cut their way out of these growing fiscal challenges.”

Boo Hoo. The bill for greed and incompetence has come due.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Foreign criminals keep getting their deportations cancelled

When he was about 22, a Jamaican national and Canadian permanent resident impregnated his 13-year-old stepsister. She said he forced himself onto her, he said he didn’t remember; you be the judge. She had a child. This happened in 2007, and in 2008 he was convicted of sexual interference and sentenced to five-and-a-half months.

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