Certain Canadians aren’t only forced to sit at the back of the employment bus.
They’re prohibited from even getting on the bus — yet are expected to pay fares for those with inferior qualifications and foreigners afforded handouts and preferential hiring consideration denied to Canadians.
In a Tuesday social media post, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) provided a fact sheet on “the progress we’re making to restore immigration to sustainable levels.”
The number of foreign students entering the country is down 71 per cent. The number of foreign workers is down 57 per cent. Asylum claims are down 52 per cent.
Immigrants are more likely than other residents of Canada to hold a university degree, yet they score lower, on average, than Canadians in skills such as literacy, a report examining the proficiencies and labour market outcomes of newcomers has found.
University-educated immigrants have literacy standards, in either English or French, that are similar to Canadians with a high-school diploma, the report, published Tuesday by the C.D. Howe Institute, concluded. It found that immigrants have lower literacy scores than Canadians at every educational level, and also score lower on average than nonimmigrants in numeracy and adaptive problem-solving.
Conservatives went to Parliament Hill Thursday morning with a blunt charge: Mark Carney’s Liberals are running Canada’s immigration system for corporate lobbyists. By the afternoon, Liberal MPs on the immigration committee had shut down debate twice.
“The official opposition, the Conservative Party of Canada, believes immigration levels should be going down, not up,” Michelle Rempel Garner, the Conservative shadow minister for immigration, told reporters.
TORONTO – Roughly 1 million Albertans voted ‘Yes’ to immigration reform questions on the referendum ballot Monday. While the results are preliminary and non-binding, they have sparked a renewed conversation about immigration policy across Canada.
“I think the provinces have always wanted a greater say in immigration policy, it’s a concurrent power under the constitution,” said Geoffrey Cameron, a political science professor at the University of Guelph.
“So I think what we’re hearing from other provinces right now is they want the federal government to give them more of a say over the numbers they get in existing programs,” he said.
I bet Ford won’t. He just wants bodies for his pals to exploit.
Referendums tend to raise as many questions as they answer. And so it may be for the 10-part questionnaire that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith put to her province — although with a series of no’s Albertans have seemingly foreclosed on a number of possibilities.
“I am well aware that not every grievance Alberta has with Ottawa has been resolved,” Smith told Albertans on Tuesday night. “There are still many political and constitutional battles ahead of us.”
I hope so.
For years, the experts insisted that the laws of supply and demand do not apply, uniquely, to immigration.
Now that the taboo has lifted, the evidence is arriving thick and fast. Three studies published in the past week alone should settle the argument.
The first, from Cambridge Circus Research, uses previously unpublished HMRC payroll data to measure migration’s effect on pay. Outside London, the typical British worker reportedly earns around £1,060 a year less than they would have if migrant employment had been frozen at its 2015 level, and the loss hits hardest at the lower end of the pay scale. Little wonder that millions of Labour voters have given up on their party and turned to Reform.
h/t kiki9
The federal Conservatives are accusing Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada of exaggerating the decrease in new permanent residents in official messaging posted online.
Immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner is calling for better data disclosure following the publication of a graph promoting efforts to restore immigration to sustainable levels.
The graph shows the number of new permanent residents each month since 2023. But starting in 2026, instead of one bar showing the total number of permanent residents, it breaks them into three separate bars.
OTTAWA — The Conservatives are calling on the government to implement temporary resident exit tracking, boost collaboration with the provinces and further reduce permanent residency admissions in the coming immigration levels plan.
Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel Garner outlined these and other demands in a press conference Thursday. She also blamed government policy for a rise in anti-immigrant sentiment in recent years.
She pointed to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent New York Times interview in which he discussed a link between Canada’s slow GDP growth and declining immigration.
This morning myself and @bradredekopp unrolled the Conservative Party’s position on immigration levels ahead of the Liberal’s release of the immigration levels plan.
🇮🇳🛬🇨🇦🏘️ : Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner says the last 6 years of mass immigration to Canada, directly benefited Brookfield.
Brookfield owns numerous rental properties and sells private insurance.
Canadian immigration rates are still very high & Mark Carney wants to increase them even more.
This despite the vast majority of Canadians who believe immigration rates are unsustainable & destructive to Canadians.
— Bruce McGonigal (@bruce_mcgonigal) October 22, 2026
Immigration levels must go way down, not up. Here’s why. https://t.co/y5cq9agFe1
— Michelle Rempel Garner (@MichelleRempel) October 22, 2026
Federal Liberals could be forgiven a sense of hubris on viewing recent polls that suggest more than half of all voters support their party.
But they should remember that the balloon can be popped by a single pinprick of reality.
TORONTO — The Canada Border Services Agency has charged five people in an alleged immigration fraud scheme that involved 243 temporary resident visa applications for 209 Bangladeshi nationals.
Rashel Mirza and Mohammed Aminul Islam, both of Montréal, Md Mudassar Alam Bhuiyan of Toronto, and Md Rakibul Hassan of Bangladesh appeared at the Valleyfield courthouse on Thursday. A warrant has been issued for Hassan, who is reportedly in Bangladesh. CBSA said a fifth unnamed accomplice is also facing charges.
The Liberal Party cannot be trusted to manage immigration.
Another Punjabi Indian wedding has seized residential streets in Brampton: loud music, blocked roads, illegal parking, endless hours. Neighbours are disturbed and annoyed to the point where they have no choice but to move out.
This is what you get when groups treat public streets as private party zones and the municipalities decline to enforce the same noise and traffic rules it applies to everyone else.
Brampton is the preview for the rest of Canada.
🎥: IG sharmeyandamunda
— Seinfeld’s Puffy Shirt 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 (@JoniWagner) October 21, 2026
h/t Hermes
Temporary foreign workers can be financially attractive to businesses, says a University of Waterloo economist, but access to that worker pool can undermine the push to be more productive.
“Labour shortages are not a problem, they’re a blessing,” said Mikal Skuterud, a professor in the university’s Department of Economics.
His comments come as Ottawa prepares to release its next Immigration Levels Plan and introduce changes to how Canada selects skilled immigrants for permanent residence.
Carney is the worst of men. Evil, greedy, serpentine.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will “not budge” from its commitment to bring immigration to sustainable levels, as Immigration Minister Lena Diab declined to answer reporters’ questions Wednesday morning.
“We are not going to budge from getting immigration levels to sustainable levels,” Carney told reporters while entering the weekly Liberal caucus meeting on Parliament Hill.
“We’re getting them to that level now.”
Carney the inveterate liar has declared war on us.
World cities with the largest decline in White population, 1991 to 2026:
1. 🇨🇦 Brampton: White population 1991 – 75%, in 2021: 18.9%. Decline: 56 percentage points.
2. 🇨🇦 Surrey: White population 1991 – 78.5%, in 2021: 30.8%. Decline: 47.7 percentage points.
3. 🇨🇦 Richmond: White population 1991 – 65%, in 2021: 18.9%. Decline: 46 percentage points.
4. 🇬🇧 Leicester: White British population 1991 – 72%, in 2021: 33.2%. Decline: 38.8 percentage points.
5. 🇨🇦 Toronto: White population 1990 – 76.8%, in 2021: 43.5%. Decline: 33.3 percentage points.
6. 🇬🇧 London: White British population 1991 – 72%, in 2021: 36.8%. Decline: 35.2 percentage points.
7. 🇬🇧 Birmingham: White British population 1991 – 74%, in 2021: 43%. Decline: 31 percentage points.
8. 🇨🇦 Vancouver: White population 1991 – 57.7%, in 2021: 43.2%. Decline: 14.5 percentage points.
9. 🇺🇸 New York City: White population 1990 – 43%, in 2020: 30.9%. Decline: 12.1 percentage points.
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) October 20, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is rewriting the rules of its economic immigration system to favour foreign workers in well-paid occupations, allowing employers to bypass looking at the Canadian talent pool first. Returning to a merit-based point system for high-skilled immigrants is a shift economists have long urged after years of high-volume, low-wage intake, but the latest policy change could cause controversy with Canadians given current polling trends.
What Carney tells reporters in French "We want to arrive at sustainable immigration levels. Well, we’ll see"
"Quebec is distinct, it’s unique because of its culture, its language and other aspects of its nature. So it’s appropriate in the case of Quebec." @MarkJCarney https://t.co/OHmJtP1Rai
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) October 21, 2026
A Canadian friend of mine, who is currently teaching in China, recently sent me an interesting video. It recorded a dark-skinned man who spoke perfect English, telling how he and his family, in 1996, immigrated to Canada. They “went through the process,” legally, to become Canadian citizens, working hard, earning what they got, and honoring the country. That kind of immigrant most countries don’t mind having.
But, he said, “it was a whole lot different back then.”
