The Liberals broke the immigration system. But better is always possible

This week, when it releases its new immigration targets, the Trudeau government has an opportunity to begin rethinking immigration policy.

For the past eight years, the Liberal plan has been about sharply and steadily increasing permanent immigration, while enabling even sharper increases in temporary immigration – with the two interconnected streams powered by huge jumps in the number of foreign students.

Why? The government’s reasons are a combination of faith and politics.

Immigration is going to mean more extremists marching in our streets.

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Canada’s immigration planning will now take into account housing, health care and infrastructure, minister says

In response to growing concern over Canada’s capacity to welcome more newcomers, the federal government says it will incorporate housing, health care and infrastructure planning with provinces and municipalities when setting the country’s annual immigration targets.

On Tuesday, Immigration Minister Marc Miller unveiled a report on the current state of Canadian immigration — along with a road map for tackling those challenges.

“We aim to build a system that is easier to navigate, with an inclusive and co-ordinated plan that aligns our immigration programs and policies with the needs of the country,” Miller said in a statement released the day before he will table his 2024-26 immigration levels plan.

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John Robson: When the Polls Are So Bad That the ‘Burning Earth’ Carbon Tax Excuse Takes a Back Seat

The global boiling climate breakdown age of fire is so serious that no price is too high to pay to stop it. Except Liberal parliamentary seats in Atlantic Canada in our gravely unserious nation.

Thus we awoke recently to snow in the backyard. No wait, to news that the federal carbon tax on home heating oil will be suspended for three years because the urgent man-made climate crisis isn’t really that serious after all. Or their magnificent policies won’t actually help anyway. Or Liberal polling numbers are looking so grim that the burning Earth must wait.

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Saskatchewan to Stop Carbon Tax Collection if Exemption Benefiting Atlantic Not Extended to Prairies

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says if the federal government doesn’t extend carbon tax exemption to all types of home heating fuels, his province would stop collecting the tax.

“I cannot accept the federal government giving an affordability break to people in one part of Canada, but not here,” Mr. Moe said in a video posted on X on Oct. 30.

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Sikh independence vote takes place in B.C. amid Canada-India tensions

SURREY, B.C. – Thousands of Sikh voters are expected to turn out today in the Metro Vancouver municipality of Surrey, to vote in an unofficial referendum at the centre of Canada’s ongoing tensions with India.

Organizers say the referendum on Khalistan — an independent state in India proposed by some Sikhs — is taking place at the same Surrey gurdwara where activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in June.

Today’s vote is the second round of the referendum in British Columbia, after organizers said the first ballot on Sept. 10 was so popular that voting couldn’t be completed in one day.

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Retreat on carbon pricing policy alone won’t change Liberals’ political fortunes: expert

A political science professor says the recent announcement that Ottawa will pause carbon pricing for home heating oil deliveries for three years will likely need to go further to boost the federal Liberals’ performance at the polls in the next election.

The federal government announced the measure on Thursday, along with other incentives to cut heating oil costs as affordability concerns have left the party flailing in the polls in Atlantic Canada.

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Temporary foreign workers in Canada have skyrocketed over the past decade, according to StatsCan. Here’s a breakdown

The overall number of temporary residents reporting income in Canada has increased close to 150 per cent between 2010 and 2020, a new Statistics Canada study found.

That growth is being driven by postgraduate work permit holders and international students with study permits.

The federal government runs two programs for temporary foreign workers and residents: the Temporary Foreign Worker program and the International Mobility program.

Another scam run by corporate interests to flood the country with cheap labour and benefit their bottom line.

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Immigration minister announces new rules to curb international student fraud schemes

OTTAWA – Colleges and universities that issue acceptance letters to international students will have to confirm all of them with the federal immigration department as Canada moves to crack down on fraud.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced the new rules Friday following an investigation this summer into more than 100 cases involving fake admission letters.

The department launched a task force in June to investigate a scheme that dates back to 2017, which saw immigration agents issue fake acceptance letters to get international students into Canada.

Bullshit.

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Poilievre says Trudeau’s carbon tax pause is a ‘scam’ to win re-election

The prime minister’s decision to temporarily exempt home heating oil from the carbon tax is a “scam” designed to turn around Liberal fortunes in the polls, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Friday.

“What caused [Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau to freak out yesterday and hold a sudden press conference to announce that he was going to pause the carbon tax on home heating oil? The answer is that he was plummeting in the polls,” Poilievre said in St. John’s.

“Justin Trudeau is not worried about the cost of living. He is worried about the cost of votes and that’s what caused his panicked flip-flop yesterday.”

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Justin Trudeau is tanking Canada’s economy

You can only imagine — and recoil in horror at — the potential damage the Canadian prime minister’s economic illiteracy will unleash

In September the leaders of the world’s most powerful nations met in New Delhi for the annual G20 Summit to address such heady matters as the war between Russia and Ukraine, the future of energy production and the criticality of food security. Everyone smiled for the cameras, shook hands politely and agreed to do their best to do something about everything, just so long as they weren’t asked to make any enforceable commitments. At the end of the weekend, all the great men and women of the world put their shoes back on, took one more group photo and bid adieu to their friends (and enemies). Then they all headed for home.

All, that is, except one.

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Trudeau government doesn’t seem to be trying very hard to reclaim grant from it’s anti-semite hireling Laith Marouf

Jamie Sarkonak: Federal government still hasn’t managed to collect Laith Marouf’s revoked grant

It’s been a little over a year since the Department of Canadian Heritage cancelled an “anti-racism” grant that had funded the work of Laith Marouf, a pro-Palestinian activist known for his intense antisemitism. The money — around $123,000 — has not yet been paid back, despite the government demanding its return and sending it to collections.

So when members of the Liberal government give assurances that the $60 million they’re sending to Israel and Gaza will stay out of Hamas’s hands, it doesn’t exactly inspire a sense of security. If the government can’t retrieve public funds that accidentally went to a bad cause at home, it probably can’t do so in a war zone half way around the world.

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Secret files show CSIS worried Canada has ‘no consequences’ for foreign state interference

OTTAWA—Newly-released secret documents show the country’s top intelligence agency was concerned there are “no consequences” for foreign interference in Canadian democracy, as a parliamentary committee calls on the federal government to strengthen criminal laws to crack down on the threat that is the focus of an upcoming public inquiry.

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