Violations of Canada’s temporary foreign worker program cost employers more than $6.8 million in penalties

The federal government issued more than $6.8 million in penalties to employers violating the rules of the temporary foreign worker program from January to September 2025, already surpassing the total from 2024’s record-setting year of fines, according to data from Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada.

That is about a 65 per cent increase from the $4.1 million in penalties handed out last year.

From January to the end of September this year, Ottawa levied 214 fines against non-compliant companies, averaging $31,971 per decision, according to the Star’s analysis of the data. That’s up from 155 fines last year, which averaged $26,776 — nearly double the 2023 average of $13,860.


Star propaganda on behalf of the Liberal Party and their corporate cronies. 

The fines are small and treated as the cost of doing business. They are not a deterrent.

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Exclusive Tory club delights in the nostalgia of its imported Wog servants

I am told on good authority that this is a typical day at the Albany Club

Exclusive Tory club hires foreign workers under program Pierre Poilievre vows to kill

OTTAWA — Toronto’s Albany Club bills itself as the “premier private club for leaders in Canada’s business and Conservative political spheres,” and offers luxurious suites, brings in Australian Wagyu beef for the dining room and allows members to buy imported wines not available at the LCBO.

But one thing it couldn’t procure last year was Canadian staff.

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Majority of Canadians continue to oppose new immigration: poll

A majority of Canadians feel that the country does not need new immigrants and people are divided over whether newcomers should have to give up their customs, according to a new national poll.

The survey, conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies found that 60 per cent of respondents disagreed that “Canada needs new immigrants,” with the highest levels of opposition found in Alberta (65 per cent), Ontario (63 per cent) and Quebec (61 per cent), followed by Manitoba and Saskatchewan (60 per cent), the Atlantic provinces (56 per cent) and British Columbia (48 per cent).

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As unemployment climbs, the promise of a grocery store job lures hundreds … from the 3rd World

The ethnic composition of this job lineup indicates Canada desperately needs more unskilled 3rd World labour.

Not long ago, Casey McLaughlin was executive director of the Yukon Transportation Museum in Whitehorse, but earlier this month she found herself lining up with hundreds of others at a job fair in Ottawa, vying for a coveted position at a new Food Basics grocery store.

“I’m willing to go from being a boss to shelving vegetables because you have to pay the bills,” she said. “It’s really hard to find a job in Ottawa right now.”

Nafisa Ijie also attended the job fair at a hotel in Barrhaven, despite having a master’s degree and experience working as a business analyst in Nigeria and England.

(Link fixed)


Canada had a shortage of Nigerian business analysts?

Toronto definitely needs more 3rd World!

h/t Patti Jo

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Can the left learn anything from Denmark’s Social Democrats’ migration policy?

Douglas Todd: Those who pay the highest price for high migration levels, says Denmark’s Social Democratic PM Mette Frederiksen, are the working class. “It’s not the elite people.”

Unlike most social-democratic parties, Denmark’s has been winning elections since 2019.

That’s because the Nordic country’s centre-left party has stayed true to its working-class roots. Rather than allowing itself to be run by what French economist Thomas Piketty calls “the Brahmin left” — by which he means educated city elites — Denmark’s Social Democrats have been taking blue-collar workers seriously.

(Incognito)

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Alberta MP calls out Immigration Scammer president of Diploma Mill Conestoga College

Alberta MP calls out president of Conestoga College on Parliament Hill

An Alberta Member of Parliament called out Conestoga College president John Tibbits during a committee meeting on Parliament Hill this week.

It happened Tuesday at a Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration meeting, where Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner serves as vice-chair. The committee examines laws, programs and policies related to citizenship and immigration.

Earlier this month, the committee agreed to study Canada’s immigration system, with a specific focus on the international student program and study permits. The goal is to identify systemic issues and explore long-term solutions.

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Two Ontario diploma mills face deep cuts as foreign student scam hit by enrolment cap

Two Ontario colleges face deep cuts as foreign student cap shrinks enrolment, reports show

Two Ontario colleges are facing significant financial hardship if they do not slash costs to cope with weaker foreign student enrolment, according to reports prepared for the Ontario government.

Loyalist College in Belleville and Northern College in Timmins could suffer revenue declines of approximately 60 per cent and 35 per cent, respectively, between 2025 and 2030, according to the reports, which were authored by consulting companies KPMG and Deloitte and obtained by The Globe and Mail.

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Canada is failing to count how many overstay their visas

Douglas Todd: How can decision-makers plan for housing, jobs, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units and social services when a significant number of people who were supposed to leave the country aren’t being tracked?

It’s hard to run a city, or country, when you don’t know how many people actually live in them.

How can public officials and businesses plan for housing, workers, schools, water supply, physicians, rental units or social services when they don’t know how many individuals need them?

Yet, according to experts, that is the problem in Canada, especially in the Toronto and Vancouver regions. The federal government isn’t being transparent about how many people in Canada remain in the country after their visas expire.


My God but we need a Trump. (Incognito)

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Only one province in Canada showed decline in population: new StatCan data

Data shows that apart from the surge in 2022, 2023 and 2024, this spring saw more immigrants arrive in Canada than any second quarter since 1957

B.C. was the only province in Canada where the population declined between April and June, while the province’s birthrate remains the lowest in the country, according to new Statistics Canada data that shows the impact of changing federal immigration policy on B.C.’s population.

The drop is “the other side” of the surge in the number of temporary residents who came to B.C. over the last three years, said Werner Antweiler, a business professor at the University of B.C. Many of those people are now leaving as their work and study permits expire.

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Canadian society has high social trust—but can that survive our unprecedented immigration increases?

Toronto subway

Canada is a high-trust country. Surveys consistently show that Canadians are more likely than most people in the world to say “others can be trusted,” to respect the rules, and to view government and civic institutions as broadly legitimate. In Q4 2024, for instance, 43.5 percent of Canadians reported that “most people can be trusted”, which is significantly higher than global averages and among the highest in the OECD.

It won’t survive.

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Foreign student diploma mill laments loss of cash bonanza from lucrative immigration scam

New permits for foreign students plunge 97 per cent as Conestoga College braces for impact

Conestoga’s pipeline of fee-paying foreign students has collapsed with a 97 per cent reduction in students from abroad receiving new approvals to attend.

The federal government approved just 540 new international study permits for the Kitchener-based community college between January and June, according to new data released to The Record.

That’s down from 17,600 new study permits approved in the same months in 2023.

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Globe & Mail Hacked? Editorial calls for end to TFW!

Globe Editorial – The necessary pain of ending the TFW dodge

If the postings on the government of Canada’s job bank site are to be believed, hardly anyone in this country wants to work, whatever the wage. Never mind rising unemployment, particularly among young Canadians. Good help, it seems, remains impossible to find.

Companies seeking permission to hire a temporary foreign worker must first prove that they could not find a Canadian willing to do that work. As of Thursday, there were 4,594 positions listed. The type of positions, and pay, vary wildly, everything from a psychiatrist position in Ottawa paying (at least) $450,000 a year to a slew of minimum-wage jobs in agriculture and food service.


About time. And I doubt that the corporate class will “suffer” much at all when the scam is gone.

Boo Hoo! The Liberals will lose a GDP dodge and the affinity vote bloc harvest.

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Trump adds $100,000 fee for skilled worker visa applicants

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will add a $100,000 (£74,000) annual fee for applicants to the H-1B visa programme for skilled foreign workers.

Trump’s order mentions “abuse” of the programme and will restrict entry unless payment is made.

Critics have long argued that H-1Bs undercut the American workforce, while supporters – including billionaire Elon Musk – argue it allows the US to attract top talent from around the world.

Great work by President Trump to protect American citizens from the much abused H-1B program but in Canada the Corporate Grifters rule ...

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40 Percent of Canadian Youth Say Jobs a Major Concern: Poll

Nearly 40 percent of Canadian youth say unemployment is their top concern, according to a new poll.

The survey was conducted by the Angus Reid Institute. It found that nearly two in five of those between 18 years and 24 years (37 percent) said jobs and unemployment was the top issue facing the country.

That is up 9 percentage points from June (28 percent) and nearly double from Decemeber 2024 (18 percent).

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Alberta to increase provincial control over immigration and cease Carney government’s sinister abuse of Canadian citizens through it’s cheap foreign labour scams

Alberta premier directs minister to increase provincial control over immigration

Premier Danielle Smith is directing the provincial jobs minister to use all legal means possible to give Alberta more control over immigration.

In a new mandate letter given to Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Minister Joseph Schow, Smith says Alberta needs more control over immigration to ensure the province sees sustainable levels of newcomers.

“Our provincial immigration levels and policies should always ensure that Canadian citizens have first access to job opportunities, and that young Canadians are not losing out on employment opportunities to temporary foreign workers,” the letter says.

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