Canada will cancel thousands of refugee claims under new retroactive law

Thousands of refugee claimants already in the system awaiting a hearing will have their asylum claims terminated under new eligibility criteria that are applied retroactively in a law that has just taken effect.

Under the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, which received royal assent Thursday night, anyone who first arrived in Canada after June 24, 2020, will not be allowed to make a refugee claim after one year, regardless of whether they left the country and returned.

Those who have come to Canada after that date and made their claims since June 3, 2025 — when the proposed eligibility rule was initially announced — will have their claims cancelled.

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Canada’s Identity Crisis Is Really a Cohesion Crisis

Canada does not have a diversity problem. It has a cohesion problem.

For the better part of a decade, the country was governed by an approach to identity that elevated difference, symbolism, and managed inclusion while treating any serious discussion of common culture with suspicion. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada increasingly spoke of itself less as a nation with a shared inheritance and more as a platform for competing identities, grievances, and moral claims. The effect was not unity but drift. It weakened the language of citizenship and made the idea of a common national story seem faintly improper.

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With hindsight, incompetent former immigration minister says he would have capped international students sooner

Sean Fraser – almost certainly lying if his mouth is open.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser, who was in charge of immigration during some of the years Auditor General Karen Hogan found instances of fraud in Canada’s international student program, said with hindsight, he would have acted sooner to fundamentally change it.

The Opposition Conservatives have been calling for his resignation, along with that of current Immigration Minister Lena Diab and Fraser’s immediate successor Marc Miller, from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet.

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The Pendulum of Canadian Immigration Policy Swings Again

Canadian immigration policy continues to swing back and forth, with the federal government already moving to ease certain restrictions only months after sharply cutting targets last fall.

In the latest swing, Ottawa announced on March 13 a relaxation of rules for the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program in rural Canada. At the request of any premier, it will boost the allowable share of low-wage TFWs in rural workforces from 10 percent to 15 percent.

The move highlights a growing tension at the heart of Canada’s immigration system: Ottawa is trying to reduce overall immigration levels and respond to a more skeptical public, while managing millions of temporary residents already in the country and accommodating employers who complain of labour shortages. The result is a policy that loosens even as it tightens.

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‘We’re taking back control’: Carney defends his record on immigration after damning auditor report

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his government’s record on immigration on Wednesday, following a report from the auditor general this week that showed the international student program lacked proper controls.

“We’re taking back control on immigration,” said Carney, on his way into a cabinet meeting.


He’s lying. Lying is all he ever does.

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LILLEY: Numbers show Canada’s immigration system failing on all fronts

Canada’s immigration system is a mess in more ways than one. Over the last decade, the Liberals have taken a system that was admired around the world, supported here at home and they trashed it.

Support for immigration is falling across the country, and other countries now look at us as a cautionary tale rather than an example to follow.

WTF?

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LILLEY: Why are Liberals expanding temporary foreign worker program?

On the same day that Statistics Canada revealed a higher unemployment rate of 6.7% and a youth unemployment rate of 14.1%, the Carney government made it easier for some employers to hire temporary foreign workers. On March 13, the latest Labour Force Survey showed that Canada had lost 108,000 full-time jobs and that over the past year had added more than 30,000 people to the unemployment line.

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Canada’s Criminal Government Not Tracking Foreign Students After Visas Lapse, Audit Says

Canada’s foreign student program lacks integrity controls to verify ongoing visa compliance, and the government does not track whether students leave the country when their permits expire, the auditor general said.

Karen Hogan’s audit of the program released Monday found that the government was successful in reducing the number of study permits it issued each year but fell short on improving the integrity of the system.


Our government is nothing short of criminal.

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Canadians Want Lower Immigration Even as Population Growth Stalls

As tighter immigration policies bring population growth to a halt, more than half of Canadians say the country should allow even fewer new immigrants and temporary residents in 2027 compared to this year.

Some 52% say the country should accept fewer people while 35% believe it should accept the same amount, according to a Nanos Research poll commissioned by Bloomberg News.

Fewer than one in 10 said Canada should accept more immigrants.

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Zero Population Growth From Immigration Is a Welcome Breather for Canada

A new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer projects that Canada’s population growth will be flat this year due to immigration cutbacks and major outflows of temporary residents. For the average Canadian, this is good news.

The report analyzes the “demographic implications” of the Carney government’s first Immigration Levels Plan, released alongside the federal budget in November 2025, finding that Canada’s population growth “will remain flat in 2026” and only inch up to 0.3 percent in 2027.

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B.C. premier signals he won’t support feds’ expansion of temporary foreign worker scam

B.C. Premier David Eby has signalled he won’t support the federal government’s move to temporarily increase rural employers’ allowances for temporary foreign workers, saying there should be a pathway to permanent residency instead.

It comes after an event Monday on the Sunshine Coast where the local MP re-announced a move to allow rural employers to have up to 15 per cent of their workforce be low-wage temporary foreign workers (TFW).

The new foreign workers cap is up from the current cap of 10 per cent, and would allow for eligible workers to get an automatic one-year extension on their work permits.

Send them back. Send the politicians who support this assault on our economic and social security back with them.

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Cardinal Müller: Mass migration could make Europeans ‘marginalized in their own country’

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has blasted mass migration and stressed the right of nations to defend and preserve themselves and their distinct culture.

In an interview with the European Conservative, the former Prefect of the Congregation (now Dicastery) of the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) said that European citizens and Western nations need to “decide if they want to be marginalized in their own country,” given the radical demographic shifts occurring.

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SHAW: Mass immigration is threatening democracy — but it’s not too late to save it

Established in July of last year, the Dominion Society — headed by former People’s Party of Canada director Daniel Tyrie — has made a noticeable splash in Canadian politics. The Dominion Society’s chief concern is mass immigration and its consequences. In their polemic against the policies of mass immigration, the Dominion Society says that the Canadian elite has manufactured a fictitious “mass immigration consensus,” and that this has been utilized to justify continued increases in the number of newcomers into Canada.

(Incognito)

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Douglas Todd: B.C. voices did speak up against Trudeau’s migration policies, but were ignored

Red flags about the Liberals’ plan to hike the volume of low-skill foreign workers, international students and transnational wealth were raised about a decade ago. But the Laurentian elite paid no heed.

One of the relatively few books written about Canadian immigration policy in the past decade says Justin Trudeau’s Liberals could have avoided “breaking the system” if they had just listened to some level-headed economists.

In “Borderline Chaos: How Canada Got Immigration Right, and Then Wrong,” author Tony Keller, a columnist for the Globe and Mail, reveals how in 2016 then-immigration minister John McCallum invited 11 labour economists to give their views regarding issues such as increasing low-skill temporary workers and international students.

The economists’ ensuing report was utterly ignored by the Liberal government — to the point the authors doubted their paper had even been read.

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Critics slam foreign worker expansion after Canada loses almost 84,000 jobs

CALGARY — While Statistics Canada released new data on Friday that Canada’s economy lost 83,900 jobs in February, Employment and Social Development Canada announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW), drawing consternation from many observers.

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