PM Carney says government has ‘taken back control’ of immigration – Except for those 50,000 Indians on student visas who have disappeared

PM Carney says government has ‘taken back control’ of immigration – Except for those 50,000 Indians on student visas who have disappeared

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government has “taken back control” of immigration.

The prime minister made the remarks at a press conference in Red Deer, Alta., after being asked about the upcoming referendum that will ask Albertans how they want the province to deal with immigration.


Carney never lets reality get in the way of his BS.

h/t Patti Jo

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Canadian Population Underreported, Artificially Improving Job Data: CIBC

Canadian Population Underreported, Artificially Improving Job Data: CIBC

Canada’s population decline may just be a distant memory after the data is updated. In June, Statistics Canada’s (StatCan) population estimate contained a stark warning that its data will see an unusually large revision. CIBC economists expect the revision will be large enough to reverse the reported declines and expose a new problem—Canada’s job numbers may be worse than reported, and there’s no longer an excuse for poor economic growth.

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Immigrants to Canada have adopted the country’s low-fertility rates, new research finds

Immigrants to Canada have adopted the country’s low-fertility rates, new research finds

Economic migrants, who make up the bulk of Canada’s immigrants, have adopted their new country’s behaviour in one significant area — they have very low fertility rates, new research suggests.

“Immigrants are feeling the low-fertility pressure of Canada here, like everyone else,” says demographer and sociologist Rachel Margolis, a professor at Western University, and one of the authors of a new paper on immigration and fertility.


I doubt anyone has accurate data on how many foreigners documented or not currently reside in Canada.

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Joel Kotkin: Immigration alone won’t solve Canada’s population decline

Joel Kotkin: Immigration alone won’t solve Canada’s population decline

This year, Canada’s population decreased, the first time since Confederation 160 years ago.

The reasons vary, but include a reduction in mass immigration, a very low birthrate and a stagnant economy sending ambitious Canadians to — horror of horrors! — the brutal nation just to the south.


That decrease is smoke and mirrors. The Liberals continue to import replacement migrants.

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Indian students arranged marriages of convenience for spouse work permits to Canada, warned New Delhi migration official

Indian students arranged marriages of convenience for spouse work permits to Canada, warned New Delhi migration official

The number of Indian undergraduate students applying to come to Canada has dropped over the past few years, in part because Ottawa ended a program granting the spouses of international students work permits, an internal government communication shows.

The communication discloses how marriages of convenience by some Indian students had enabled their spouses to accompany them to this country to work and to help them pay for their studies.

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1 in 10 emergency physicians leaving Canadian ERs, national survey suggests

1 in 10 emergency physicians leaving Canadian ERs, national survey suggests

Dr. Kaitlin Stockton has watched far too many patients suffer in overflowing emergency departments.

The Vancouver-based physician has given patients she just met a cancer diagnosis, with little privacy in the middle of a noisy room. She’s cared for a man with an intracranial brain bleed on an ambulance stretcher in a hallway. And she can’t shake the memory of one patient who had septic shock after spending eight hours in a waiting room, dangerously close to death.


Mass Immigration’s strain on limited resources is never mentioned of course.

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New permanent residents down 20% in Canada. Nearly half the drop came from India

New permanent residents down 20% in Canada. Nearly half the drop came from India

Canada admitted 20 per cent fewer permanent residents in the first three months of this year, with study permits and asylum claims also falling.

The country took in 83,130 permanent residents between January and March, down from 104,320 over the same three months in 2025, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada data analyzed by the Association for Canadian Studies. It is the second consecutive year admissions have fallen. New study permits dropped 24 per cent and asylum claims fell 35 per cent over the same period.

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The math of Canada’s immigration enforcement no longer works—and organized crime knows it

The math of Canada’s immigration enforcement no longer works—and organized crime knows it

When U.S. prosecutors unsealed indictments against 37 people tied to India-based crime syndicates earlier this month, they exposed a distinctly Canadian vulnerability: nearly every accused Bishnoi gang foot soldier arrested here entered from Punjab on a study or temporary work permit—many, the indictments allege, obtained with fraudulent information. As Hub senior correspondent Graeme Gordon reported, the years-long Operation Hard Ball investigation traces how Canada’s immigration system became a recruitment pipeline for transnational organized crime—one running through what criminologist Kelly Sundberg calls “a broken, and in places effectively non-existent, security screening process.”

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A Trucker and an Investigative Reporter, One Week Before the Punjabi Narco-Trucker Indictments Came Down

A Trucker and an Investigative Reporter, One Week Before the Punjabi Narco-Trucker Indictments Came Down

OTTAWA — When Gord Magill asked me onto his podcast on July 1, I said yes for a reason I don’t often get to act on. Magill is not commenting from a distance. He is a third-generation trucker who has driven the ice roads of northern Canada, the Australian outback and the American interstate system, and who wrote End of the Road: Inside the War on Truckers.

When a practitioner who has spent thirty years in the cab wants to talk about how North American workers are getting squeezed out of a critical industry by immigration scams, or as I explain, how transnational organized crime has exploited our borders and vulnerable migrants to capture an essential economic tie between the U.S. and Canada, threaten our national security and sovereignty, and move cartel loads through the freight system, that is a conversation worth having, and worth sharing with readers of The Bureau.

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Canada does not owe international students a path to residency

Canada does not owe international students a path to residency

Canadian residency was available for purchase just a few short years ago. Everyone involved knew what was going on – the colleges, the universities, the immigration “consultants,” the provinces and federal government, and prospective new Canadians. They all recognized that if an individual checked the appropriate boxes, made the correct attestations and could muster up tuition for one of the hundreds of Designated Learning Institutions (DLI) in Canada, he or she could probably stay in Canada for the long-term. In 2024, 98 per cent of those who applied for postgraduate work permits (PGWP) were approved.


Those who signed off on this criminal act of national subversion should be jailed.

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DONOVAN: The urbanization of small-town Canada — rural Canada should reject Ottawa’s radical demographic makeover

DONOVAN: The urbanization of small-town Canada — rural Canada should reject Ottawa’s radical demographic makeover

Ottawa is redirecting immigration into small and remote communities, a move which threatens to replicate in small-town Canada the same immigration-fuelled social and economic problems plaguing major urban centres.

The Rural Community Immigration Pilot (RCIP) was launched in January 2025, one of the last immigration policies implemented by the Trudeau government. A total of 14 communities are included, ranging from Claresholm in Alberta, Steinbach and Brandon in Manitoba, Peace Liard and West Kootenay in BC, and Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan.

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Immigration museum projects years of deficits as public attitudes shift

Immigration museum projects years of deficits as public attitudes shift

Canada’s Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is forecasting years of operating deficits as federal funding declines and management warns changing public attitudes toward immigration are affecting its long-term financial outlook.

According to the museum’s Summary of Corporate Plan 2026-2031, the federally funded institution expects to post a $137,000 deficit this year, with annual shortfalls projected to grow to $1.6 million by the end of the planning period.

(Incognito)

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What some immigrants could lose if Alberta votes yes to Danielle Smith’s questions

What some immigrants could lose if Alberta votes yes to Danielle Smith’s questions

If Albertans vote yes to the five immigration questions on this fall’s referendum, many of Alberta’s 260,000 temporary workers and other non-permanent residents could lose their health and education coverage — while all the rest could have to pay access fees on top of the taxes they pay.

When it comes to the most prominent question on Alberta’s Oct. 19 ballot, Premier Danielle Smith has said she is against separating. But she endorses and has vowed to campaign for the other nine questions she’s put to Albertans on immigration and constitutional reform.

She’s pitched them as a third-way option for supporters to express frustration with Ottawa without going as far as endorsing secession.

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Liberals pause ‘Give Grandma’s Hospital Bed To Some Freeloading Foreigner” Immigration Program

Liberals pause ‘Give Grandma’s Hospital Bed To Some Freeloading Foreigner” Immigration Program

OTTAWA – The federal government will not accept any new applications this year from people who want to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada as permanent residents under a program meant to promote family reunification.

The Immigration Department said the change is part of an effort to responsibly manage the system and reduce wait times.

In a statement posted online, the department said interest in the program continues to exceed the number of available spaces.


Reduce wait times? This program should not exist. Bastards.

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LILLEY: Canada keeps rewarding those who stay after their visas expire

LILLEY: Canada keeps rewarding those who stay after their visas expire

A recent tribunal ruling in Ontario saying illegal immigrants are entitled to welfare may look like a single case, but it could turn into four million cases. That’s how many temporary visas are expiring between last year and this year, and the Liberal government in Ottawa has no plan to ensure people leave.

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