Jamie Sarkonak: Immigration levels plan doesn’t solve Canada’s overcapacity problem

The immigration levels plan Prime Minister Mark Carney released Tuesday addresses Canada’s population overload in the same way that partially mending a plumbing leak helps drain a flooded basement. It doesn’t.

Carney intends to give 380,000 people permanent resident status per year from 2026 to 2028 through regular streams; over the next two years, another 148,000 refugees and work permit holders will be granted PR as well — which means not everyone is going home, despite their temporary status. The government will also bring in 385,000 temporary residents (workers and study permit holders) in 2026 and 370,000 in each of the two years after. Altogether, that’s over 800,000 per year.

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This Trudeau minister kickstarted Canada’s immigration cuts. Here’s what he thinks about Carney’s new plan

Miller literally did that his 1st week on the job.

Whether people agree or disagree with Ottawa’s new immigration targets, the plan will help Canada regain control of the system, says the man who launched the mission to bring it back on track.

“It denotes stability, whether you like or not the important reforms that I put through in the last two years,” said Liberal MP and former immigration minister Marc Miller. Miller was tapped in 2023 by then prime minister Justin Trudeau to rein in rapid immigration growth amid a public outcry.

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Carney’s Liberals Keep 3rd World Migrant Floodgates Open

Federal budget 2025: Foreigners living in Canada will get permanent residence priority, Immigration Minister says

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says her department will prioritize foreigners living in Canada for permanent residency over people applying to settle here from abroad, as she published more details of the number of immigrants who will be allowed to settle here over the next three years.

Tuesday’s budget set out plans to freeze the number of permanent residents at 380,000 a year for three years.

But figures published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Wednesday showed that an additional 148,000 permanent residents will be added to the official targets over the next two years through one-off initiatives.


Meanwhile the Globe continues to platform Century Initiative Mass Immigration Gaslighting. Carney’s pal and advisor Wiseman likely has his hands all over this duplicity.

Ottawa’s new immigration plan risks lowering Canada’s quality of life

Lisa Lalande is chief executive of the Century Initiative.

It doesn’t take much to decode how the Liberals want Canadians to understand their new immigration strategy, unveiled in Tuesday’s budget.

The message is clear: quality over quantity. As Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne put it in his prebudget news conference, “On one hand [we’re] saying, ‘Yes, we’re getting back to sustainable levels.’ On the other hand, we’re really focusing on attracting the best and brightest.”

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Ottawa slashes temporary immigration by 43% after admitting system is ‘broken’

The federal government says it is “taking back control” of Canada’s immigration system with sweeping cuts to foreign student and migrant labour permits, following warnings from Prime Minister Mark Carney that the system had become unsustainable.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Immigration Minister Lena Diab is expected to table a new Immigration Levels Plan that reduces the number of temporary permits by 43% over the next two years, according to the federal budget Canada Strong.


As if they’re suddenly serious about asserting control, all BS all the time. (Incognito)

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Fearing fraud, Canada rejects most Indian study permit applicants

TORONTO — Canada’s clampdown on international students has hit applicants from India particularly hard, government data shows, as what was once a preferred destination loses its allure for Indian students.

Canada lowered the number of international student permits it issues for the second year in a row in early 2025 as part of a broader effort to reduce the number of temporary migrants and address fraud related to student visas.

About 74 per cent of Indian applications for permits to study at Canadian post-secondary institutions in August — the most recent month available –- were rejected, compared to about 32 per cent in August 2023, according to immigration department data provided to Reuters.


They should be rejecting every last one.

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New Data Vindicates Critics of Canada’s High Immigration Levels

Almost exactly one year ago, the federal government caved to rising opposition towards high immigration and announced a plan to hit the brakes and temporarily “pause population growth.” New data is now revealing that the Canadian public is reaping economic dividends from this immigration cut, confirming what opponents of high immigration have said all along.


Zero Immigration and remigration of the 3rd World malcontents should be the law.

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It’s time to declare a national emergency over violent crime by migrants

Despite what the BBC would have you believe, people are right to be fearful of the consequences of our open borders

How could any decent human being possibly object to mass immigration? That, it would seem, is the mystery puzzling the BBC. Yes, even after all these years. Because earlier this week it sent reporters to Buxton in Derbyshire to ask residents the following question: why are you people all saying you’ll vote Reform, when practically everyone in your town is white British?

Buxton, noted the BBC’s reporters, has experienced “very little” immigration, is a good 250 miles from Dover (“where the small boats arrive”), and has “no hotels housing asylum seekers”. Yet almost everyone they spoke to, apart from some wonderfully compassionate teenagers at a local school, viewed the small boats, and mass immigration in general, as a major source of concern. How baffling. If you work for the BBC, anyway.

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Jamie Sarkonak: The secret reason Alberta teachers went on strike — skyrocketing immigration

The problem with simply cramming never-before-seen volumes of students who can’t speak English into overcrowded classrooms is that, one day, the teachers will snap. And that’s kind of what we’re seeing in Alberta — though neither the government nor the teachers’ association has made a point of trying to solve the issue.

Most kids have been locked out of schools for a whole month because, we’re told, classes are reaching 40-plus students and because classroom needs are becoming more “complex,” a euphemism for kids with disabilities and/or low English capability. Teachers have been without pay in that time, as their union didn’t build a strike fund over the past 20 years. Alas, the strike ended Tuesday with the passing of back-to-work legislation reinforced by the notwithstanding clause.


Our criminal elites should be rotting in jail for the rest of their scummy lives for having unleashed a tsunami of incompatible cultures on unsuspecting Canadians.

It was an act of pure evil and I doubt Canada will ever recover.

If the goal was to balkanize the populace and undermine society prior to breakup they have succeeded.

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Young Canadians struggle to land minimum-wage jobs as youth unemployment hits new highs

Young Canadians are finding it increasingly difficult to land even minimum-wage jobs as the country’s youth unemployment rate climbs to its highest level in years.

According to Statistics Canada, the youth unemployment rate reached 15 per cent in September — the highest level since 2010, excluding the pandemic years.

Statistics Canada’s chief of labour force survey analysis, Andrew Fields, said young people are particularly affected by the tightening job market.

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Jamie Sarkonak: There is a distinct pattern of trucker crashes in Canada

When a foreign trucker killed three people in Florida in August with a careless, illegal U-turn on a highway, I was not shocked. We Canadians hear about news stories like this on a regular enough basis.

But completely foreign to me was prompt action taken by American officials in response to the senseless deaths: driver Harjinder Singh was immediately charged with three counts of vehicular homicide and three counts of manslaughter, and one week later, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio halted the issuance of all work visas for commercial truckers, acknowledging the increasing safety risk they posed.


We Chased Driverless Trucks In Texas. What We Saw Will Scare You.

The comments on the true nature of the so called “Driver Shortage” are interesting.

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B.C. companies dominate Canadian migrant worker violations

B.C. companies have racked up over a third of all federal penalties for breaching migrant worker protection laws in the last decade, far surpassing every other Canadian jurisdiction, a BIV analysis has found.

Since 2016, B.C. companies have been fined over $6.1 million—more than a third of the nearly $18 million in nationwide penalties issued for non-compliance under the federal Temporary Foreign Worker and International Mobility programs.

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The consensus on immigration is crumbling as 8 in 10 Conservatives say too many are coming in: poll

The number of Canadians who say the federal government is letting in too many immigrants has spiked in recent years — and among Conservative voters the swing is even more dramatic, according to a new poll from Environics Institute.

The Canadian consensus that adding more newcomers is generally a positive development is crumbling — and it’s largely driven by most Conservative voters moving to a starkly more negative position on the immigration system.


Only the most stupid of Lib-Left ideologues believe the lies we’ve been fed about the benefits of not being able to afford a home or access healthcare in the name of immigration for the “Greater Good”. The rest lie out of habit.

Mass immigration only benefits the corporate class and vote whoring politicians (Which is all of them with rare exception).

And living in a low trust society where our government treats us like 2nd Class citizens reminds us every day that diversity is our strength.

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Criticizing Immigration Laws is Not Racist

“I’m not racist, but”, “I don’t want to sound racist, but”, is what I’ve been hearing from some of my Canadian friends in recent conversations.

Growing up in Canada, our immigration policy was a source of pride. We had a robust system that made sure we took in highly educated immigrants from all over the world. I remember in high school, my math teacher had immigrated from Algeria, and had a PhD in computer science. Canada even welcomed a modest amount of refugees from oppressed countries, and I would hear stories from Uber drivers tell me how grateful they were to be in Canada.


The author wants you to know that frank discussion about immigration is a recent thing in his genteel circles.

That’s not the case on this blog or among it’s readers.

He encourages readers to be bold and speak freely about difficult subjects but perversely ends with a warning about the rise of populism which evidently should not be mentioned in polite company somehow overlooking that populism gave voice to the people most harmed by mass immigration.

The author resides in Texas. Why do I suspect the blog and it’s author are an AI fiction?

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Canadians’ views on immigration see growing split along political lines: Survey

Canadians’ views on immigration have become slightly more positive but the opinion gap along political lines has widened to a record level, according to a poll that tracks public attitudes toward immigration and refugees.

The annual Environics Institute survey found that 56 per cent of Canadians believe the country accepts too many immigrants, declining by two percentage points from last year, following a dramatic increase in negative sentiments between 2022 and 2024.

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