Mark Carney is repeating Justin Trudeau’s immigration mistakes

Mark Carney is repeating Justin Trudeau’s immigration mistakes

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to enjoy an extended political honeymoon. His approval ratings hover around 65%, his Liberal Party commands a consistent polling lead, and the Democratic blue wave in the US will likely strengthen Canada’s position in Donald Trump’s trade war. Yet the first inklings of an anti-Carney backlash are now evident in public reaction to his second government budget, specifically on immigration targets that seem eerily similar to the excessive policies that scarred the Justin Trudeau years.


Many of us have had a similar inkling …

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Blarney from Carney on immigration

Blarney from Carney on immigration

A rule of thumb when assessing any announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney is to look for the fine print.

It doesn’t matter if it’s the deal to open the Gordie Howe bridge, negotiations around the sale of the Stellantis plant or the budget; the devil is always in the details.

Look at what Carney used to think about TFW’s

Don’t let temporary foreign workers drive down wages: Carney

OTTAWA—Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney warned the federal government not to allow temporary foreign workers to take jobs away from Canadians or drive down wages.

“One doesn’t want an over-reliance on temporary foreign workers for lower-skilled jobs,” the head of the central bank told the Commons finance committee.

Relying too much on temporary employees from abroad distorts wage adjustments that lead to Canadians getting better pay and delays changes that make companies more efficient, Carney said.

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Liberal immigration skews wildly male. They call it ‘gender balanced’ anyway

Liberal immigration skews wildly male. They call it ‘gender balanced’ anyway

Gender balance for cabinets, but not for the population. The contrast is stark for federal Liberals who rebuilt their political brand in no small part on a commitment to equity. Over the last 10 years, Canada’s historically steady male-to-female ratio has skewed as yet another side effect of unsustainable, under-considered immigration policies.

Prior to 2016, the gender ratio hovered in a narrow 98 to 98.5 men per 100 women band for decades, maintaining a very slight female majority. As women tend to live longer than men, the long-term average difference between the sexes in their prime years was zero.

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Young Canadians are facing historically long bouts of unemployment

Young Canadians are facing historically long bouts of unemployment

Landing a new job after being unemployed can be tough. For a growing share of out-of-work young people, the hunt hasn’t been this difficult since the early 1980s, according to a new study.

Among unemployed men aged 20 to 24, the share who have been out of work for six months or more has spiked to 27 per cent, the highest level since 1983.

For many unemployed women in the same age group, the job search is even worse: 28 per cent have been looking for work for at least half a year, the highest share since at least 1976.


Who exactly are the young Canadians they are referring to?

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Sabrina Maddeaux: Carney’s immigration accounting is so creative, it should qualify for the new artist tax break

Sabrina Maddeaux: Carney’s immigration accounting is so creative, it should qualify for the new artist tax break

Mark Carney is a known art enthusiast, but who knew he had such talent? Canada’s newest immigration updates read like a Jackson Pollock painting — impressively chaotic, twisting in multiple directions at once, and near impossible to decipher beneath layers of obscurity.

Federal Liberals have recently released a series of such works, best exemplified by the 2027-2029 Immigration Levels Plan in last week’s budget. This pièce de résistance managed to unleash mass confusion even among economists and policy experts.

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The Carney government’s immigration targets are a fib and a dodge

The Carney government’s immigration targets are a fib and a dodge

My fellow Canadians, I am pleased to present Tony Keller’s 2026-27 diet targets.

As promised, these involve a significant reduction in my daily caloric intake, compared to my previous Trudeau Diet. As promised, next year will see me maintain the lower caloric levels adopted this year.


I would march on Ottawa.

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Changes to temporary foreign worker program could increase lower wage hirings

Changes to temporary foreign worker program could increase lower wage hirings

Changes to the federal government’s much-maligned Temporary Foreign Worker Program could beef up lower-wage employees from outside the country.

On Friday, Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families, said the changes will “strengthen” the program, created to address labour shortages in critical sectors where there are not enough Canadian workers to fill the gaps.


“COULD”?

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Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney’s immigration subterfuge a threat to his nation-building project

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney’s immigration subterfuge a threat to his nation-building project

Prime Minister Mark Carney has a problem. He promises that Canada can become more economically independent. He wants to accelerate major projects and expand energy exports. He’s pledged to build housing for the homeless, pipelines for petroleum, and army bases in the Arctic. All good things, all long overdue, and all projects that could, at first blush, bring Canadians together.

But ironically, they could also tear us apart.

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Diab says immigration plan about predictability, doing the ‘right thing’

Diab says immigration plan about predictability, doing the ‘right thing’

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to make the system more predictable while doing the “right thing” by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream.

The levels plan, published Thursday, includes targets for 380,000 permanent residents and 370,000 new temporary residents annually through 2029, along with a pledge to make upwards of 200,000 longtime temporary residents permanent by the end of 2027.

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Why Ottawa’s move to grant 200,000 temporary residents permanent status is facing backlash

Why Ottawa’s move to grant 200,000 temporary residents permanent status is facing backlash

In last week’s federal budget, Ottawa announced a one-time immigration measure that took policy-watchers by surprise: It plans to grant permanent residency to 200,000 temporary residents already in Canada.

The new spots would be in addition to the 380,000 spots previously allocated for permanent residents in 2026, an unexpected move given the Liberal government’s recent efforts to clamp down on immigration.

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Mark Carney cranks up immigration again, while pretending not to

Mark Carney cranks up immigration again, while pretending not to

On Friday afternoon, which is the unofficial time for governments everywhere to publish information they hope no one will pay much attention to, Canada’s federal government came out with some news: It has decided to again loosen restrictions on the hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers.

The government didn’t frame it quite like that, of course. Instead, it announced what it called “targeted reforms” to “respond to labour market needs,” which is a much more polite way of saying it will facilitate the continuing suppression of Canadian wages by allowing employers to hire from abroad, rather than improve worker incentives domestically.

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FORSETH: Mass immigration targets are a Liberal political calculation

FORSETH: Mass immigration targets are a Liberal political calculation

Ottawa plans to hold immigration levels mostly steady over the next three years, according to Budget 2026. The Liberals claim the updated immigration plan aims to strike “a balance” that favours the needs of the economy, housing, healthcare, and social services. Such claims have not been true in the past and are unlikely to be true going forward.

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Carney extends employment periods for temporary foreign workers to help out his corporate welfare pals

Carney extends employment periods for temporary foreign workers to help out his corporate welfare pals

OTTAWA — The federal government is extending the period of time a business can employ a low-wage temporary foreign worker.

The change will lengthen the maximum duration of a low-wage Labour Market Impact Assessment — the document an employer needs in order to employ a temporary foreign worker — to two years instead of one.

The government said restrictions on hiring temporary foreign workers in cities with unemployment rates above six per cent will remain in place. But Ottawa is adding early childhood educators to the list of professions exempted from those restrictions — a list which also includes certain jobs in health care, construction and food processing.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Young Canadians are struggling to find work: ‘I thought that by now I’d have some sort of job’

Young Canadians are struggling to find work: ‘I thought that by now I’d have some sort of job’

For Abby Daniel, graduating from university was supposed to mark the beginning of her career. Instead, more than a year after completing her degree, she’s still trying to find a job in her field.

Daniel, who graduated from Ottawa-based Carleton University in 2025 with a degree in health sciences, expected to land work in public health, government or a health-care organization.

“When I graduated, I thought that … by now I’d have some sort of job that is linked to my actual undergrad degree,” she told National Post.


This is why we need mass immigration.

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