Caregivers from abroad to be given permanent residence on arrival under new pilot programs
Caregivers coming to Canada to look after children, seniors and disabled people will be offered permanent residency on arrival under two pilot programs to be announced Monday by Immigration Minister Marc Miller.
The pilots, which are enhanced versions of two programs set to expire on June 17, will put qualified nannies, child-care and home-support workers on a fast track to settling in Canada.
At one point in our not-too-distant history, Canada was recognized by our allies as playing an important role in intelligence. During the Cold War by pure happenstance thanks to our geography, we kept tabs on Soviet military activity over the North Pole, thanks to a Canadian Armed Forces listening station in Alert on Ellesmere Island. Our contribution was critical to monitoring the threat from the USSR, including the horrendous possibility of the launch of nuclear missiles targeting North America.
About 180,000 illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Canada are asking to stay in the country, causing long wait times, according to information from a Senate committee hearing.
“Thousands of claimants are facing long wait times at multiple points in the process,” said Jason Hollmann, director general of asylum policy at the immigration department, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
Mr. Hollmann made the comments at a Senate social affairs committee on May 23, saying that asylum decisions can take years.
This is deliberate. Junior is talking of a “path to citizenship” for every illegal invader who wants it.
Ottawa’s waffling on Gaza makes commitment to human rights look shaky
If there is one word to describe Ottawa’s response to Israel’s war on Gaza, it surely is: waffle.
The Trudeau government’s politics of appeasement, rather than those of principle, have made its reactions to developments in the Middle East inauthentic to all sides of a divided populace. They have also thrown into doubt Canada’s commitment to an international human rights system.
h/t MP
A new book on Justin Trudeau, “The Prince” by Stephen Maher, documents a turbulent time at the top of this country. Here are five takeaways from the story of his reign, amassed through stories that hit the headlines and drama behind the scenes.
Not much really.
“Canada, you are freeloading!” That’s how businessman and former Canadian soldier Lawrence (Larry) Stevenson interprets last week’s letter from 23 U.S. Democratic and Republican senators to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The American lawmakers urged Canada to uphold its NATO commitments, and speed up efforts to increase defence spending to two per cent of GDP.
Canada is facing social and economic challenges on every front and mass immigration is one of the prime culprits behind it. With nearly 1.3 million people entering Canada in 2023 alone, the correlation is undeniable.
The Trudeau Liberals’ plan to pick the pockets of Canadians of up to $120 million to give 80 newbie MPs a lifetime pension is unravelling.
The NDP is so disgusted by the shady arrangement to give MPs the sweetheart deal that they want to scrap the proposal put forward by the senior partner in their parliamentary pact.
An attempt by the Liberals to avoid holding the 2025 federal election on a date that conflicts with a religious festival appears set to be overruled by the Opposition, following claims that the new date sets up a financial conflict of interest for MPs first elected in 2019.
The current election law says that unless Parliament is dissolved early, the next federal election “must be held on the third Monday of October in the fourth calendar year following polling day for the last general election” — Monday, October 20, 2025.
It’s all about the pensions.
Justin Trudeau may be wishing that Stephen Maher, author of a new book on the prime minister, was a faster writer.
The book, titled “The Prince,” is laced with some significant praise for Trudeau but also some unflinching criticism, particularly as the story winds to its conclusion and the tale of the past year or so.
“If I had finished the book when I started it, it would have been more positive and cheerier,” Maher said in an interview with me this week.
On Israel, Justin Trudeau has found himself
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found himself.
For a while, he was lost. But the Gaza war has given him an issue he can get his teeth into.
For much of the last year, Gaza and the Hamas war were seen in Liberal party circles as problems the prime minister would do well to ignore. That’s because they highlighted the fundamental split over Israel that bedevils the party.
If the government criticized Israel, it was called antisemitic. If it didn’t it was called anti-Islamic.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says comments made by Ontario Premier Doug Ford that seemingly suggested immigrants were behind recent attacks on Jewish institutions are “dumb.”
“It’s a dumb thing to say, blaming immigrants. No one was blaming immigrants for the trucker convoy,” Miller said at a press conference in Montreal.
SINGAPORE, June 1 (Reuters) – Canada warned China against meddling in its elections during a rare meeting of the countries’ defence chiefs, its defence minister said on Saturday.
“I raised the concern of foreign interference in all the manifestations that it might take, including interference in our institutions, including our elections, but also actions of collusion against the Chinese diaspora in Canada, our citizens,” Defence Minister Bill Blair told Reuters, referring to his conversation with Chinese counterpart Dong Jun.
I bet he did.
It can be a bit difficult to keep tabs on the various inquiries and examinations into foreign interference in Canadian elections, particularly by China.
Ottawa’s latest growth industry was largely created by a series of leaks of highly classified intelligence that first appeared in The Globe and Mail, and then Global News, that described attempts by the Chinese government to meddle in the last two elections with the goal of returning the Liberals to power, if again with a minority government.
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.”
