The Conservatives are right: The Temporary Foreign Worker program mostly should not exist.
But the Conservatives are also missing something: the Temporary Foreign Worker program, or TFW, is only a small part − in fact the smallest part – of Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs.
A fresh Abacus Data poll reveals a nation divided over the fate of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
With 44 percent of Canadians supporting its elimination compared with 30 percent firmly opposed and 18 percent neutral or undecided, the proposal is proving to be more than a policy debate.
The bottom line for me is that Corporate Canada and the LPC cannot be trusted to act in our best interests.
They conspired to flood Canada with unskilled immigrants from incompatible cultures without a thought to the harm this would cause to the social and economic well being of Canadians.
Their greed driven actions created a vote bloc to harvest and a false boost in GDP for the LPC to brag about while simultaneously providing the leverage necessary for the business class to depress wages and profit from the shortages that resulted.
You and your children can’t find a job? Fck you!
You and your children can’t afford rent never mind a mortgage? Fck you!
You and your children can’t find a doctor? Fck you!
You and your children threatened by migrant crime? Fck you!
Homeless shelters and foodbanks overrun by the LPC’s migrant hordes? Fck you!
And the topper? If you complain you’re a racist. Fck you!
This is the way it is. They do not care about me, they do not care about you. They are not to trusted.
Death to all Tyrants and the TFW.
The Great Replacement is not a conspiracy theory.
For many protesters in York and Leeds, waving the national flag is not a mark of extremism. They simply want to keep their communities safe
York has long been defined by postcard charm. Cobbled streets, medieval walls, a bustling university and steady tourist influx made it a place associated with heritage and Harry Potter, not hard politics. But York has now become a battle ground for Britain’s growing migration debate, overwriting the city’s storybook image. What was once a byword for stability now reads as a warning: Middle England is learning the politics of confrontation.
The “immigrants are taking our jobs” line used to be dismissed as a xenophobic trope, stigmatized in Canadian politics with such intensity that it lulled the population into a decade-plus sleep even as wages stagnated. But it’s turned out to be completely true — and only the Conservatives are coming up with solutions to the problem.
On Wednesday, Pierre Poilievre and immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner announced their proposal to scrap the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program, which in 2023 authorized nearly 240,000 foreigners to work in Canada. This, we’re told, is only the beginning: Rempel Garner promises that more proposals are in the works.
In a surprise statement, Premier David Eby called for the end of Canada’s temporary foreign worker (TFW) program — blaming Ottawa’s flawed immigration policies for filling up homeless shelters and food banks.
“The temporary foreign worker program is not working. It should be cancelled or significantly reformed,” Eby said during an unrelated announcement in Surrey, B.C., Thursday.
“We can’t have an immigration system that fills up our homeless shelters and our food banks. We can’t have an immigration system that outpaces our ability to build schools and housing. And we can’t have an immigration program that results in high youth unemployment.
Doug Ford loves the TFW program. Corporate welfare is the God Given right of the ruling class in Dougie’s world.
Today, the federal Conservatives announced their intention, should they form government, to abolish the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). They also challenged the governing Liberals to do so immediately. We believe that this is a much-needed change of policy, for the simple reason that Canadian jobs should go to Canadians.
Yet abolishing the TFWP would only be a step in the right direction because it’s not the only immigration stream that allows foreign nationals access to our labour market in large numbers. It’s not the only stream that prices young Canadians out of the job market, suppresses wages, and is rife with abuse. The spirit of reform must ultimately extend more broadly.
LILLEY: Carney says no to scrapping TFWs but program must change
… When the Liberals implemented the changes that effectively took the guardrails off the TFW program, Canada’s national unemployment rate stood at 5.1%. That unemployment rate has steadily increased as the Liberals in Ottawa put the TFW program on steroids, opened up work permits for international students and brought in more than 190,000 asylum seekers last year, most of whom were granted work permits in short order.
OTTAWA – A new report argues the rise of gig work, artificial intelligence and rapid population growth are souring job prospects for Canada’s youngest workers.
The Desjardins Economics report, released Thursday, comes as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre cites decades-high youth unemployment levels to attack an immigration program for temporary foreign workers.
Statistics Canada’s latest labour force survey shows the unemployment rate for young people aged 15 to 24 hit 14.6 per cent in July — a nearly 15-year high outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘Population growth’, just another bullshit term used to gaslight Canadians.
OTTAWA—Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Mark Carney’s Liberals to ditch the federal government’s decades-old temporary foreign worker program, taking a harder stance against a program he’s previously said should be reduced, not axed outright.
The reason why, Poilievre said Wednesday, is because of worsening youth unemployment, rather than a Liberal-induced “immigration crisis” he has claimed has weakened both the economy and security of the country.
“The individual temporary foreign workers, the workers themselves, they are not bad people. They are not the problem. They are being taken advantage of by Liberal corporate leaders who want to use them to drive down wages,” Poilievre said at a news conference in Mississauga.
The Dutch justice minister is considering lifting the country’s decades-old ban on pepper spray after the murder of a 17-year-old girl by an asylum seeker ignited public anger over immigration and the government’s failure to protect its citizens.
Justice Minister David van Weel told parliament he is exploring whether civilians, particularly women, should be allowed to carry pepper spray for self-defence. The small canisters, which temporarily disable attackers, are currently classed as prohibited weapons under Dutch law. Possession can result in hefty fines or even a criminal record.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre confirmed his party’s intention to put pressure on companies using siginficant amount of TFW’s by “naming and shaming” them.
Speaking to reporters in Mississauga ON. on Wednesday, Poilievre and Shadow Immigration Minister Michelle Rempel Garner reiterated their opposition to the Temporary Foreign Worker program, stating that companies relying on the system prioritize corporate profits over Canadian jobs.
Once upon a time not so long ago, if you were a young Canadian, you could learn vital skills in an entry-level job, and earn enough to pay for school while saving. In return, employers would benefit from a skilled, productive domestic labour workforce.
But that agreement has been broken, as evidenced by Canada’s staggering youth unemployment and the countless gut-punching stories about young Canadians who have put out hundreds of resumes without getting as much as a single callback.
Every week, for the last several months, Islamic afternoon prayers have been held outside Montreal’s Notre-Dame Basilica. The prayers are hosted by the group Montreal4Palestine, which has used the space outside the church to protest Israel’s continuing war in Gaza.
It’s either a beautiful or egregiously provocative scene, depending on how you look at it. Beautiful for what it illustrates about the freedoms afforded to people in Canada: the ability to practice one’s religion outside the place of worship of another religion. Egregiously provocative for what one might infer about the motives of those who have chosen Notre-Dame at the site for their protest and prayers.
No matter how you slice it, it is an act of aggression by a cult that should never have been permitted entry to Canada.
Too many of our academic institutions have substituted rigorous research for racial activism. University of Leicester’s Centre for Hate Studies is just the latest example. They have published a report which warns of “rural racism” in the “overwhelmingly white” British countryside.
The researchers – who spoke to just 115 people and 20 community groups over a two-year period – also lamented the lack of religiously-sensitive facilities in rural areas that are defined by their traditional pub culture and other “monocultural customs”.
The “existence of western democracies” is in peril without fundamental reforms to the European asylum system, one of Germany’s most eminent legal figures has warned.
Hans-Jürgen Papier was previously the most senior judge in the country, which became a European standard bearer for liberal immigration policy. Papier said the current rules had opened the floodgates to “uncontrolled and unconditional immigration” and needed to be radically revised before the public lost faith in conventional politics.
Unfortunately people like Hans are more afraid of losing access to the trough than they are of mass immigration from incompatible cultures.
The only thing that scares them more is the AfD.
