In Canada, What Kind of Screening Will Be Done of New Arrivals From Gaza?

Meet your new neighbors.

What kind of screening of these Gazans will be done? Will those applying for visas to be admitted to Canada be asked, for example, about their view of the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7? Of course, they will claim to be just as horrified as anyone else. But we have the results of a Palestinian opinion poll conducted in December, in which 82% of Gazans expressed their support for the October 7 attacks (the percentage was even higher in the West Bank, where 85% of the Palestinians supported those attacks).

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In 25 years, up to half of Canadians may identify as racialized or visible minority, report finds

Canada’s demographic revolution is running at a furious pace, with population growth outstripping even the boldest predictions, mostly due to immigration, with important implications for Canadian identity as much as demography, according to a new poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies.

Canada’s population surpassed 40 million people this summer, earlier than predicted. Statistics Canada reported recently that Canada’s population grew by more than 430,000 in the third quarter of this year, for a total of 40.5 million.

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He Won Election to Canada’s Parliament. Did China Help?

The newcomer landed in a district of northern Toronto and announced his bid for Canada’s Parliament. Though few knew him, an important factor helped offset his lack of name recognition — the backing of prominent local Chinese-Canadians.

“I’m very happy that I feel very well supported, surrounded by friends,” the candidate, Han Dong, said at a news conference.

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Adam Zivo: Don’t let the Liberals fool you. The economy is doing worse than they say

By playing down per capita data, the Trudeau government is hiding Canada’s economic anemia behind an immigration boom

The latest GDP data from Statistics Canada shows that our economy shrank by 1.1 per cent in the third quarter of 2023. While this is already a sobering figure, the reality is much worse than many realize, as this data does not account for the fact that economic growth is being artificially inflated through high immigration.

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Trudeau Funnels $840,000 to Guilbeault’s Old Organization

The Trudeau government finds itself embroiled in controversy yet again over allegations of misusing taxpayer funds to benefit allied interests. The latest case centers on a series of questionable grants to the environmental group Equiterre, an organization with close ties to Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault.

This incident is part of a pattern of accusations that public money has improperly flowed to third-party groups whose agendas align with and amplify Liberal policies. The cozy arrangements allow the government to effectively outsource promotion of its agenda by funding sympathetic organizations like Equiterre. 

h/t Mauser

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NDP’s Jagmeet Singh rules out coalition government with Liberals after next election

OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is ruling out the possibility of forming a coalition government with the Liberals if no party wins a clear majority after the next federal election.

“That’s off the table,” Singh said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, even though the two parties have been working closely together.

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Trudeau’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 2023, and what comes next

A year in which everything seemed to go sidewards for the Liberal government began with a pair of modest victories for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

The first, an agreement signed in early February with the provinces, to bolster health care transfers by $46.2 billion. The premiers left Ottawa grumbling, as they always do, about the size of the cash infusion, but all agreed to it. Trudeau predicted the new money would “protect our health care system now and into the future.” For the moment, there was a measure of rare peace with the provinces on health funding.

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MP Han Dong Wore Chinese Communist Red Scarf During China Trip

During a 2015 visit to China, MP Han Dong was photographed wearing a red scarf, which is a symbol of the Young Pioneers, a youth organization under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The photo, released by the Chinese Consulate in Toronto, also featured former Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne. Both were photographed wearing the scarves alongside children at a Shanghai public school as part of an Ontario business delegation. At the time, Mr. Dong was a member of provincial parliament in Ms. Wynne’s Liberal government.

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He’s never, ever resigning: Takeaways from all of Trudeau’s year-end interviews

It would be wrong to expect a Canadian prime minister to lace their year-end interview with uncertainty and self-doubt. But these interviews were particularly devoid of any acknowledgement that Trudeau has ever misjudged an issue, altered course due to changing circumstances or failed to prevent a crisis.

When interviewers asked him whether he’d been late to the issue of housing affordability, Trudeau said he’d actually been ahead of the curve with his 2017 National Housing Strategy.

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Canada’s high immigration is driving down per-capita GDP: report

The Canadian economy experienced a contraction “unprecedented outside a recession,” according to a new analysis from National Bank Financial, a trend driven, at least in part, by a population spike that has squeezed per capita GDP growth.

The bank’s monthly economic analysis says that “signs of an economic slowdown have been multiplying.”

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The Trudeau Liberals had a tough year. What will they do in 2024?

When Justin Trudeau went in to huddle with his cabinet in Prince Edward Island in August this year, he had his work cut out for him as anger over housing and affordability in Canada grows.

Fatigue with an administration now in its eighth year seemed to be setting in, as multiple polls have suggested. In Charlottetown, Trudeau tasked his cabinet with finding a way through the biggest domestic crises. As the new year nears, the question now is: are they doing enough?

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Commissioner in foreign interference inquiry playing politics

Justice Marie-Josee Corrupt

It’s hard to have faith in the public inquiry into foreign election interference when the judge in charge is acting the way she is.

Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue has denied the Conservative Party full standing at the inquiry twice now and warned them against complaining too much.

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UN investigator stands by claim that Trudeau government’s low-wage foreign worker program is like modern slavery

A United Nations official who said that part of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program constitutes “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” is standing by his comments, saying some agricultural and low-wage workers are subjected to unacceptable conditions, including surveillance.

Tomoya Obokata, the UN’s special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, said in an interview he found some temporary migrants were working in appalling conditions in Canada, and could not escape their employers because their work permits tied them to a single employer.


I don’t often agree with the UN but on this matter I do.

Trudeau’s temporary foreign worker program along with the foreign student scam are designed to harm Canadian citizens by allowing the corporate welfare class to depress wages and import as many indentured servants as they please.

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Bill Designed to Protect Youth Online May Give Ottawa More Censorship Control, Internet Expert Says

A government bill to restrict underage access to pornography may hinder the privacy of Canadians and give Ottawa stronger online censorship control, according to an internet expert.

Law professor and Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-Commerce Law Michael Geist recently raised concerns about the enforcement measures tucked into Bill S-210.

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