The debate on whether the new immigration targets are too ambitious is also coinciding with heightened scrutiny regarding what — or who — is influencing government policy
OTTAWA — As Canada plans to significantly ramp up its immigration levels in the coming years, some policy experts are worried about potential effects on health care, housing and the labour market.
But Immigration Minister Sean Fraser insists that Canada needs more newcomers to address labour shortages and demographic changes that threaten the country’s future.
The Liberal Party has sold our sovereignty to the likes of McKinsey & Company. Get angry about this.
The central bank promised low interest rates would last — then hiked them aggressively. A new report says the Bank’s messaging helped nudge borrowers toward variable-rates mortgages that many homeowners now regret.
“You can be confident that interest rates will be low for a long time.”
Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem will forever wear those words, spoken in October 2020, according to a new report from TD’s chief economist.
Macklem’s message, delivered at a time when the central bank was trying to project calm and stimulate the economy with ultralow interest rates amid the disruption of the pandemic, was aimed at businesses considering new investments and “household(s) considering making a major purchase.”
So the Bank of Canada instructs the corporate class to deny workers wage increases in order to fight inflation.
The corporate class demands the immigration floodgates be opened because a huge pool of cheap labour is a sure fire way to depress wages.
The Bank of Canada raises interest rates injecting the fear of homelessness into a divided and fearful population.
The Liberal government destroys our energy base and raises its hated carbon tax to increase the cost of everything.
Everything suddenly seems to break all at once from air travel to health care to government services.
Public servants reveal that immigration policy is being set by the likes of Dominic Barton & McKinsey & Company.
Liberal minister says Canada needs more immigration, some worried about impacts on services
… Radio-Canada reported last week that two sources within Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said McKinsey & Company’s influence on immigration policy has grown in recent years.
A government response to a Conservative MP’s written question, which was tabled in the House of Commons in December, says the department has not recently awarded any contracts to the consulting firm — at least, not during the timeframe the MP asked about, which was from March 2021 until October 2022.
And during the interview Thursday, Fraser said McKinsey has had no role to play in the new immigration levels plan.
Canada does not need mass immigration. The likes of Dominic Barton, McKinsey & Company and the rest of Canada’s corporate class want it so they can profit off the backs of citizens.
The Liberal Party has sold Canadians out to its crony capitalist buddies.
Ontario is home to seven of the 10 schools flagged by the Canadian government as having the highest rates of “non-compliance” when it comes to international students failing to show up for their registered courses, or instead applying for asylum.
The names of the so-called designated learning institutions, or DLIs — schools approved to host international students — were revealed in an internal report by the Immigration Department’s integrity risk management branch.
The list raises questions about Canada’s rapidly expanding international education industry, which has seen schools bring in hundreds of thousands of foreign students at significantly higher tuition rates than their Canadian peers, and whether it may be experiencing issues around compliance and enforcement.
This is allowed to happen, make no mistake it is a deliberate effort to undermine our society.
B.C. group under RCMP scrutiny for Beijing ties has charitable status in Canada
RICHMOND, B.C.—Across the street from a strip mall lined with restaurants and hair salons, the shield of the Wenzhou Friendship Society hangs above a gated entry.
What has gone on behind those doors is part of a Canadian national security investigation into the aggressive foreign interference tactics of the Chinese government.
Elitism poses a far greater threat to democratic institutions than populism and the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland next week is a case in point.
From a Canadian perspective anyone who cares about democracy should worry a lot more about the WEF than the Freedom Convoy.
The government will review $66 million worth of contracts it awarded to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
Speaking during a news conference in Mexico City at the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS), Trudeau said he’s asked Public Service and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek and President of the Treasury Board Mona Fortier to examine the contracts.
“I asked Minister Jaczek and Minister Fortier to do a follow-up and look closely at the numbers, and look at the circumstances that we heard about in the news,” Trudeau said in French.
It’s a very good thing that public attention and opposition inquiries are at last promising to shed light on the opaque and strangely intimate relationship between the Trudeau Liberals and McKinsey and Company, the global management consultancy that mutated into a service agency for dictators, oligarchs and corporate drug pushers. Its former boss was Dominic Barton, the longtime Trudeau confidant and Canada’s former ambassador to China.
OTTAWA — “We’re definitely going to reduce the cost of consultants.”
The leader of the Conservative party hasn’t committed himself to much but that’s a pretty definitive promise — a Pierre Poilievre government would reduce the spending on third-party consultants that Ottawa’s own estimates suggest rose to $17.7 billion in 2022.
Not buying what Ivinson is selling. Yes far too much is spent on consultants a scandal in itself but he refuses to entertain the possibility that consultants have shaped government policy to serve their own interests. Dominic Barton, McKinsey and the LPC have conspired to remake this country via mass immigration out of sheer greed.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a committee study of the government’s relationship with a consulting firm following reports it has been awarded 30 times more money in federal contracts under Justin Trudeau’s Liberals than Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.
… “The questions it raises for us are not around the international firm,” he said, “but rather, why did the Government of Canada hand over its priorities, through contracts, to a private foreign company?”
Poilievre also questioned former McKinsey global managing director Dominic Barton’s later appointment to Canadian ambassador to China, a position he left in 2021.
“It’s time for Canadians to get answers,” Poilievre said. “We need to know what this money was for, what influence McKinsey has had in our government, and it is time for Canadian taxpayers to have answers to these questions.”
Trudeau sold control of Canada’s Immigration Policy to McKinsey to benefit the corporate class.
Former federal finance minister Bill Morneau says that when it came to COVID-19 pandemic aid policy, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the top advisors in his office favoured “scoring political points” over policy rationales, leading to him feeling like a “rubber stamp” ahead of his “inevitable” resignation.
“My job of providing counsel and direction where fiscal matters were concerned had deteriorated into serving as something between a figurehead and a rubber stamp,” he writes in his new book, out on Jan. 17.
… Cooper and other experts (including U.S. national security officials interviewed by ProPublica) say Canadian political leaders have ignored or minimized the extent of the threat from China. Cooper has received criticism from pro-Beijing figures in the Chinese-Canadian community and is fighting two defamation lawsuits from subjects of his coverage. But his reporting has drawn praise from national security officials, dissidents of Chinese origin and academics in Canada, the United States and elsewhere. It helped spur a governmental inquiry known as the Cullen Commission, which recently concluded that organized crime had laundered billions of dollars in the province of British Columbia. And the latest revelations of Chinese interference are having a potentially dramatic impact on the political debate in Canada.
Around Christmastime, Wendle Beaton was trying to find cold medication for her adult son in Brampton, Ont.
“In my neighbourhood there’s like 20 (pharmacies) within like a two-kilometre radius because I live in the most populous part of the city,” Beaton said.
Grocery stores have become a lightning rod for consumer discontent amid inflation and lingering mistrust after a bread price-fixing scandal.
A case of sticker shock in the poultry aisle of a downtown Toronto grocery store owned by Loblaw Companies, Canada’s largest food retailer, caused a backlash on social media about what, and perhaps who, is behind the rise in food prices.
Business schools across the country would do well to undertake a case study on McKinsey & Co.’s remarkable success in winning contracts from the federal government since Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took power. There, they’ll find insights into how Ottawa really works.
McKinsey, the pedigreed consulting firm that has been plagued by a series of conflict-of-interest scandals spanning several countries, has been practically wedded at the hip to Mr. Trudeau’s government since the firm’s then-global managing partner, Dominic Barton, was picked to head up Ottawa’s advisory council on economic growth in 2016.
