You can now add immigration to the list of big issues in B.C.’s Oct. 19 election.
B.C. Conservative party Leader John Rustad raised the challenge publicly, even before his party was strengthened by the dramatic collapse on Wednesday of B.C. United.
Rustad threw down the gauntlet on social media after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted Monday that his government had welcomed too many low-wage foreign workers and it was time to “invest in Canadian workers and youth.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would set Canada’s immigration targets based on housing, jobs and health-care data if his party forms government after the next election, accusing the Liberals of bringing in more immigrants than the country can absorb.
Mr. Poilievre spoke with reporters outside Parliament’s West Block Thursday, where he criticized this week’s “expensive” cabinet retreat in Halifax and called on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to pull his support for the minority Liberal government and trigger a federal election.
Canada’s attempt to use immigration as stimulus might be backfiring. That was the message from a new BMO report, looking at the unusually high unemployment rate for recent immigrants. The labor market for recent immigrants is eroding much faster than it is for the rest of Canada—at a rate rarely seen outside of recession. The problem is this isn’t a recession, the aggressive population growth just isn’t doing anyone any favors.
The “policy” part of a bad immigration policy can be fixed.
The government can, for example, announce a cap on international study permits when it becomes clear that Canada can’t accommodate the 1,028,850 international students it accepted in 2023. It can scale back the number of hours international students are allowed to work off-campus when students who are working close to 40 hours a week are in effect temporary foreign workers with the wrong papers. It can announce a six-month moratorium on applications for some low-wage temporary foreign workers in Montreal when there is a by-election coming up in the city. Wait – no, I meant to say: when unemployment is up in Quebec. Yes, that’s it.
Another group of post-secondary students in Brampton has the public talking this week — largely in the form of criticism — for protesting about failing their classes.
Just like the demonstrations that took place outside of the city’s Algoma University earlier this year, dozens enrolled at St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology — an institution operated in partnership with private a career college called Ace Acumen Academy — are claiming that their school has “failed them for no reason.”
Translation: “Ve we’re not going to class because ve have vob at Tim Hortons and we expect to just cheat on test and when we couldn’t we failed this is mean”
Go home your scum https://t.co/3HvDS3ENwY
— Small fringe minority with unacceptable views (@TrudeausCloset) August 27, 2024
h/t RH
Canada will try to break its rising dependence on low-wage, temporary foreign workers (TFWs). This week the Government of Canada (GoC) announced it will freeze processing of TFWs in some regions with elevated unemployment. Despite rising unemployment, the program has seen explosive growth with annual volumes rising 300% over the past five years. Just the first quarter of 2024 has already processed more than the annual total for 2018.
Justin Trudeau is betraying a whole generation of young people by taking away their jobs.
The prime minister, as well as the deputy prime minister, talks a good game about helping young people get ahead and giving them opportunities.
But the federal Liberals are refusing to abolish a disastrous policy that is spiking youth unemployment as well as giving Canada a bad name.
An 11-year-old boy was among those arrested during early morning raids on Wednesday, following riots across the country.
Fourteen people were detained, aged between 11 and 43, on suspicion of violent disorder, including a mother and her son.
Cleveland Police has now arrested 110 people following widespread disorder across Hartlepool and Middlesbrough almost a month ago.
Supt Marc Anderson, who was Silver Commander during the Middlesbrough disorder, said he had never “seen anything like” it in his 30 years of service.
Trudeau freezing bank accounts, Jan 6 protesters drawing disproportionately long jail terms, and the UK is arresting children.
The elites are very afraid.
Liberal edits to the immigration system are somewhat like a magician’s sleight-of-hand tricks. One hand distracts the audience, while the other maintains the illusion.
The latest flashy distraction came to us Monday: Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault announced that, starting Sept. 26, low-wage temporary foreign worker (TFW) program permit approvals will not be granted in cities with more than six per cent unemployment. TFWs will be limited to one-year stays, and they will only be permitted to make up 10 per cent of their employer’s workforce (down from the 30 and 20 per cent of recent years).
Government officers told to skip fraud prevention steps when vetting temporary foreign worker applications, Star investigation finds
As the Trudeau government promises to crack down on a temporary foreign worker program it admits has been abused, a Star investigation has revealed the government is fast-tracking applications by directing processing officers to skip crucial steps designed to prevent fraud.
Beginning in January 2022, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) directed staff to apply “streamlining measures” when evaluating the legitimacy of applications by employers who want to hire temporary foreign workers.
According to internal ESDC documents obtained by the Star and interviews with a current ESDC employee, routine checks meant to ensure the system is not abused by unscrupulous employers have been suspended in an effort to process applications faster.
That Great Replacement theory? It’s just a conspiracy!
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced reductions to the temporary foreign worker program Monday, but there are many exceptions to the clampdown that could still see thousands of people brought to Canada for short-term work.
Trudeau said the program needs to be reined in as the country’s unemployment rate rises.
Business groups are raising concerns about Ottawa’s decision to restrict the number of temporary foreign workers coming to Canada, warning that certain industries that are struggling to find workers could be adversely affected.
On Monday, Ottawa announced that employers will not be able to bring in foreign workers through the low-wage stream of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) in regions where the unemployment rate is six per cent or higher from Sept. 26 onwards.
That 6% figure was chosen for a reason, I bet unemployment figures will be jiggled accordingly.
In response to mounting immigration challenges and high youth employment rates, the federal government has finally decided to tighten its Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
Starting Sept. 26, the government will suspend the processing of Labour Market Impact Assessments for the Low-Wage stream of the TFWP in specific census metropolitan areas. This suspension will apply to cities where the unemployment rate is 6% or higher, though the exact locations have yet to be disclosed. While exceptions will be made for sectors critical to food security — such as primary agriculture, food processing, and fish processing — the food service industry will not be spared from these changes.
Canadians are understandably confused by the state of our international migration programs.
The two main pathways by which people are admitted to Canada to work are as economic immigrants (who can stay permanently) and temporary foreign workers. And the public discourse on the two pathways has been contradictory.
Under our woke moral order, one can easily predict when agents of the regime will behave like anarchists and when they will behave like tyrants.
In 2020, the Left was flirting with the abolition of police and prisons. Today, they pose as the champions of both these things, despite their very recent status as irredeemable hotbeds of systemic racism. It is mightily impressive what singling out the white working classes can do for an institution’s reputation—with the elites, if not with the people.
