Canada’s Corporate Welfare Class

FIRST READING: Canada’s 2.7 million temporary workers may not take kindly to deportation

As Canadian governments pursue early efforts to bring down the country’s unprecedentedly high rate of temporary migrants, it’s not being taken well by the thousands of students and foreign workers who are effectively being told to leave.

Canadians were betrayed.

The Liberal government saw votes and opened the immigration floodgates.

Then the LPC outsourced immigration entryways to the corporate class whose eyes lit up in dollar signs at the prospect of a pool of cheap wage depressing labour and any other scam that came to mind.

Both the Liberal Party and the Corporate sector remain very happy to profit at your expense while destroying Canada.

And finally few ever get deported from Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ruling Class Concerned Public Developing Zero Tolerance For Their Bullshit

Garage set on fire. Smashed windows. MPs and elected officials are rattled by rising intimidation and threats — and ‘someone is going to get seriously hurt’

OTTAWA — It seems only a matter of time before an elected official in Canada gets seriously hurt.

In March, somebody set fire to the garage at Liberal MP Brendan Hanley’s Yukon home.

No one was injured in the blaze that destroyed the garage, two cars and a motorbike, but it left him “shocked,” profoundly shaken, and fearful about the safety of his family, neighbours and those close to him.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Century Initiative’s 100 million population goal by year 2100 was meant to be provocative – and isn’t a target – CEO says

The head of the Century Initiative, an influential non-profit think tank that wants to see Canada’s population grow to 100 million by 2100, is softening emphasis of its controversial headline goal, saying it is not a target it is aiming to reach and was created to be “provocative” and bold.

The 100 million population figure was meant to galvanize public debate about the best way to foster growth in Canada, chief executive Lisa Lalande said in an interview.

Bullshit.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Power Corp’s 50+ years behind Quebec prime ministers

Have you ever wondered why Canada has been run by Quebecers for most of the past 60 years? The answer begins with a book almost 100 years old.

In his 1928 book Propaganda, the father of public relations Edward Bernays wrote,

“A presidential candidate may be ‘drafted’ in response to ‘overwhelming popular demand,’ but it is well known that his name may be decided upon by half a dozen men sitting around a table in a hotel room.

“In some instances the power of invisible wirepullers is flagrant.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s Competition Bureau takes a stand, finally!

The recent move by Canada’s Competition Bureau to investigate the parent companies of grocery giants Loblaws and Sobeys marks a significant step in addressing anticompetitive behaviour in the retail grocery sector.

This investigation, initiated on March 1, focuses on the alleged use of property controls by these firms, which purportedly restrict competition through their lease agreements and control over land vacancies. With these two companies holding a combined market share of over 50% in the Canadian food retailing market, the potential implications are substantial.

I posted the CBC’s take on the investigation earlier and it drew criticism suggesting restrictive covenants are a fit and proper commercial activity designed to protect tenants from loss of income. But why do we see retail clusters as in clothing stores or automobiles where competitors sit cheek by jowl?

Charlebois’s take is a bit more informative on the degree to which such covenants may be distorting the retail grocery market in Canada.

The use of foodbanks has skyrocketed under Trudeau and I do not trust his friend Galen the bread thief to do the right thing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Loblaws, Sobeys owners under investigation by Competition Bureau for alleged anti-competitive conduct

… The covenants can “leave restrictions or exclusions on competitors that extend beyond ownership of the land, sometimes for decades,” the applications say.

The probes are also looking into “exclusivity clauses” in commercial lease agreements that “limit or restrict” who a landowner can lease to and which products can be sold by other parties close to another leaseholders’ business.

The property controls, the commissioner says, may give the companies “the ability to exclude actual or potential competitors from selling food products within certain geographic areas or to dictate the terms upon which they carry on business.”

Canada is a Banana Republic.

I wonder if these covenants are allowed in the US?

In the US the perps behind the Bread scam would have done hard time. In Canada the government gives you new freezers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class

Trudeau used $1.7M tax dollars for 10 new jobs at a pasta plant. Are these corporate subsidies worth it?

When the federal government said earlier this week its investment of $1.7 million in a Brampton, Ont., pasta plant would create 10 jobs, some questioned whether that taxpayer money was being put to good use.

One economics professor tweeted he was “legit astonished” by the investment in Italpasta.

“Do they not understand just how insane this is? That spending north of $170k for *one job* is an embarrassment, not an achievement?” wrote Stephen Gordon of Laval University.

And that was just a fraction of the billions in subsidies that were announced recently for the creation of electric vehicle-related plants in Ontario.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Chris Alexander: I am a former immigration minister. Unsustainable population increases won’t solve Canada’s underlying issues

In March, the Globe and Mail reported that Canada’s population had grown by 1.3 million in 2023—the largest annual increase on record.

This surge was driven by higher numbers of immigrants, international students, temporary foreign workers, and asylum claimants.

Given that the 2021 census showed that 8.3 million Canadians, or 23 percent of our population, had an immigrant background, this latest increase means that, in a Canada of over 40 million people, one in four of us is a temporary or permanent resident, or was born abroad. This proportion of newcomers is the highest since Confederation, beating the previous record of 22.3 percent set in 1921. By comparison, the immigrant share of the U.S. population is today about 14 percent.

More … Immigration to Canada surges in April, worsening outlook for housing affordability

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class

Decrease number of temporary residents by making them permanent, fucking idiot of a federal immigration minister suggests

MONTREAL — One way Canada plans to shrink the number of temporary residents is to offer them the opportunity to remain permanently, the immigration minister said Friday, but that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to stay will be able to.

Marc Miller met with his provincial and territorial counterparts for the first time since he announced an unprecedented plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

A warning from the breakdown nations

At a time when two big economies, the US and India, are attracting a lot of hype for their enduring strength, it is worth looking at nations that not too long ago were billed as star performers but are now breaking down. All are among the world’s 50 largest economies and, so far this decade, have suffered both a sharp decline in real per capita income growth, and a fall in their share of global gross domestic product.

Led by Canada, Chile, Germany, South Africa and Thailand, these “breakdown nations” carry a lesson. Growth is hard, sustaining it even harder, so the stars of today are not necessarily the stars of tomorrow.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada’s Captains Of Industry Are Abusing The Temporary Foreign Workers Scam? I Am Shocked!

Fines mounting for violations in Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs

The federal government penalized nearly 200 companies last year for violating the rules of its temporary foreign worker programs, resulting in record fines for infractions such as wage theft and abuse in the workplace.

Ottawa reached 194 decisions against non-compliant employers in 2023 and handed out $2.7-million in penalties, an average of $13,800 per decision, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of figures published by the government. Some employers have also been suspended from hiring temporary labour from outside the country.

But how else will they depress wages?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau and Ford should attach personal fortunes to EV corporate welfare

Last week, with their latest tranche of corporate welfare for the electric vehicle (EV) sector, the Trudeau and Ford governments announced a $5.0 billion subsidy for Honda to help build an EV battery plant and ultimately manufacture EVs in Ontario. Here’s a challenge: if politicians in both governments truly believe these measures are in the public interest, they should tie their personal fortunes with the outcomes of these subsidies (a.k.a. corporate welfare).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Worried about foreign workers, Conservatives demand details of $15B Honda EV deal

Conservative MPs are pushing Ottawa to release details of its agreement with Honda Canada to build a sprawling electric vehicle operation in southern Ontario — disclosure they say is necessary to ensure Canadians get all the jobs in the multi-billion-dollar project.

The push for transparency comes after Canada’s Building Trades Union (CBTU) wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this month asking him to intervene on another EV project, the NextStar plant in Windsor, Ont. that’s backed by Chrysler parent company Stellantis and Korean firm LG.

The union said foreign workers are displacing Canadian labourers at the NextStar construction site while 180 local millwrights and ironworkers are unemployed and available to perform the necessary work.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau has lowered your chance of finding a job by allowing his corporate cronies to hire foreign students at reduced wages over Canadians again

International students will be allowed to work 24 hours a week starting in September

OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller says international students will be able to work off-campus up to 24 hours per week starting in September.

The Liberals temporarily waved the 20-hour cap on work hours for international students during the COVID-19 pandemic in a bid to ease labour shortages.

There is no labour shortage – Canada’s Much-Touted Labour Shortage Is Mostly A Mirage

And … ‘No One Wants To Work Anymore’: Employers Complaining About Labour Shortages May Simply Not Be Paying Enough

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government