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.
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.
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.”
Om Kachhadiya picked Canada for his postgraduate studies because its immigration rules and pathways were clear and predictable.
The 26-year-old, who already had a civil engineering degree in India, knew the criteria to meet for his study permit and what he needed to do to qualify for the postgraduation work permit, so he could get a job and earn Canadian work experience — and ultimately his permanent residence.
But what has happened to Canada’s immigration system between his arrival in 2022 and graduation in 2024 — and thereafter — has been anything but clear and predictable.
I have ZERO sympathy for Om and whoever vetted his entry to Canada. Remigration Now.
It’s no secret the long-held Canadian consensus on immigration has fractured — pulled apart by a rapid increase in new arrivals post-pandemic and growing affordability challenges. Now, that fracture is starting to show up at the ballot box.
The Parti Québécois won a minority mandate in Quebec on a platform that included promises of tighter immigration controls, which the party linked to protecting French culture and easing pressure on public services and housing.
Federal immigration policy, and its effects on the ongoing housing and affordability crisis, is front and centre in Canadian politics once again.
First off, Prime Minister Mark Carney, while speaking outside of Canada to journalists at the New York Times on Sept. 23, suggested his Liberal government is looking to increase immigration following efforts to reduce numbers since forming government in 2025.
Who except a few twisted self-flagellants would vote for their own erasure?
No one.
This is a criminal act against the citizens of Canada.
NEW:
The top 10 Countries with the largest decline in share of White population over the last 20 years. https://t.co/QIPTxgLhFK
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) October 17, 2026
OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Lena Diab is signalling immigration levels will be going up, as Canada’s population growth has seen a significant slowdown over the past two years.
In September, Prime Minister Mark Carney told The New York Times that Canada will eventually resume a “controlled increase” in its population once the immigration system remains fully under control.
Greedy bastards are happily destroying Canada to line their pockets.
I welcome a US invasion rather than being overrun by Carney’s 3rd World Mercenaries
Reminiscent of former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s famous social media invitation a decade ago, Canada’s “come on in” welcome sign has again been placed in the country’s front window to entice foreign workers.
