Philip Cross: Why is youth unemployment so high? Government policies

Young people are struggling in the labour market for two main reasons: high immigration and high minimum wages

Young people have borne the brunt of the recent deterioration in Canada’s labour market. Youth unemployment usually runs at about twice the rate for adults, reflecting young workers’ lower productivity and inexperience at searching for a job. But now it’s nearly three times the rate for adults, which puts it at “crisis levels” according to some commentators.

The likely cause of this crisis? Government programs that have raised the minimum wage and sharply increased the supply of low-skilled foreign workers.


Our Titans of Industry, our so called “Business leaders” demanded and received more cheap foreign labour than was ever needed with no questions asked from the Liberal government.

They sold us out, all of us.

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London is in trouble and there’s no point denying it

Whitechapel Market London

The media elites’ classist indifference to the fraying of social bonds is gross.

A new high-status opinion just dropped: London is fine. From their converted Edwardian houses in the leafy suburbs where you won’t get a burger for less than 15 quid, London’s preening opinion-shapers have taken to X to say all is well in the capital. Ignore the ‘Trumpist’ talking points about London going down the swanny, they cry between glugs of pinot noir – life’s never been better! One envisions the grimaces of people on the other side of town when they see such hot takes pop up on their mobile phones that they cling to for dear life lest some wanker on a stolen Lime bike should snatch them.

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Ottawa pressed to factor in 500,000 undocumented residents as it consults on immigration targets

Economists are urging the government to factor in the estimated 500,000 undocumented residents in Canada as it consults on its forthcoming immigration levels plan.

Immigration Minister Lena Diab is consulting on targets for the number of temporary and permanent residents Canada plans to allow in the next three years, in what some consider a litmus test of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s position on immigration.

The immigration levels are annually presented in October or November to help planning for housing, schools, health care and infrastructure.


First erect walls encircling the city then ship them all to Ottawa.

Farking lying bastards.

From Torontology – When did everyone in the GTA turn Indian?

“So I just came back to Canada after being out of the country for a couple years, an after searching for a few months I landed a forklift warehouse job in the GTA, paying about $23/hour.

Whole crew? Indian.

Managers? Indian.

I was literally the only non-Indian guy there.

They all speaking Punjabi or Hindi or something the whole time I didn’t understand a thing

The lunchroom absolutely smelled like ass I couldn’t even my meal in there so I went and ate it in my car.

Then after my shift I hit McDonald’s to grab a drink… same thing. Staff, customers everyone there was Indian too.

Not tryna be rude or weird or nothing, I was just shook. Like when did this happen?? Was there some big immigration wave recently or is this just how it’s been in Ontario now?

Genuinely curious haven’t been around in a few years and it feels like the GTA changed heavy. What the fuck happened?”

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Shorter Globe: Canada’s Corporate Welfare Class Needs More Cheap Foreign Labour

Corporate Canada

Why to drop a bad idea on immigration

The federal government seems to be quietly abandoning a program that would have opened a door to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers employed in low-wage jobs in Canada.

The program, mentioned unceremoniously in a bulletin in the Canada Gazette in April of 2024, appeared to offer a quick path to permanent residency for international students and temporary foreign workers making a living as food and beverage servers, delivery drivers, cleaners and general labourers.


What sort of scumbags would happily sacrifice Canadians for cheap foreign labour?

Corporate Canada that’s who.

I swear they’re gonna make me some sort of new wave communist.

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LILLEY: Carney’s Liberals hiding immigration data as questions mount

The Carney Liberals have been hiding immigration data from Canadians for months. Now, after being called out on it, the government says it’s all in the name of openness and transparency.

Normally, government numbers on the number of new arrivals, the number of asylum seekers and more are released on the government’s open data portal. As of now, the government hasn’t released any data since May and that information only covers until the end of March.

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Stop Importing People and Start Exporting an Idea

In nature, systems operate in dynamic equilibrium. There is a flow and balance, a yin and yang to all parts. We see the same process in the evolution of societies as the wonders of modernity flow throughout the civilization.

What does this have to do with immigration? Everything. With modernity the old immigration thinking based on only more and more bodies is in direct conflict with present physical and technological reality.

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Corporate Welfare Class Hardest Hit: Ottawa yet to launch program announced last year that would grant permanent residency to low-wage workers

More than a year after announcing a new immigration stream that would have granted permanent residency to low-wage workers already in Canada, the federal government has yet to move ahead on formally launching the program – suggesting that Ottawa could be backing away from the plan altogether.

The plan targeting low-wage workers was informally announced in April 2024, through the Canada Gazette. Consultations were set to begin last year on amending immigration laws to admit a “new permanent economic class of workers in TEER 4 and TEER 5 jobs.”


Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is a feature not a bug. Yes they are out to get you.

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Young Canadians suffer as a result of temporary workers programs

It seems like a lifetime ago, but Justin Trudeau was Canada’s prime minister until only a few months ago.

As he gets smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror, we’re coming to terms with some of the public policy disasters that came out of Trudeau’s time as prime minister.

(Go incognito)

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Toronto Star Concerned AI Is Catching ‘So-Called Asylum Seeker’ Scammers

How do Canadian officials detect plagiarized refugee claims?

A failed refugee claimant came to Amandeep Singh in May for help after he was refused because his claim was “nearly word for word” identical to others before the refugee board.

While the Edmonton-based immigration consultant had heard for a long time that some claimants and their counsel have plagiarized claims to game the system, what struck him was what tool the refugee board and immigration officials use to flag these cases, which he says seems to have happened more often.


Don’t worry Carney and his pal Wiseman will make it easy for the unvetted … Immigration lawyers say rising number of CSIS security screenings causing delays

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The tradition of a summer job is threatened by Canada’s misguided migration strategy

Ottawa has exponentially hiked the number of low-wage migrants it brings into the country, creating more competition for job-seeking young people.

The search for a summer job is a rite of passage.

Filled with anxiety and reward, the quest in Canada offers young people an introduction to the marketplace, where they will spend a large portion of their lives, hopefully leading to independence and self-confidence.

But this summer in Canada, opportunities for people between the ages of 15 and 24 are abysmal. Their hunt is full of dead ends and discouragement. Talk about making hope-filled young people feel unwanted.


The Liberal government and their Corporate cronies should be jailed for the ruin they have visited upon Canada with their hateful mass immigration policy.

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Irish Lawyers Blame Mass Migration for Homelessness Crisis

An Irish lawyers’ group knows what the true root cause of the housing crisis in Ireland is: mass illegal migration.

While activists are riling up anger against Airbnb, Lawyers for Justice Ireland (LFJI) insists that there is a more sinister reason underlying the ongoing Irish housing crisis, one that the leftist government deliberately fueled: mass migration. In recent years, major demonstrations against illegal immigration and its deleterious effect on Ireland have highlighted the growing anger over the government’s insistence on moving in hordes of foreigners, many of them Muslims, who have no interest in assimilating.

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Experts seek fact based analysis to convince public that the destruction of their economic & social well being by mass immigration is a good thing

As premiers push for more immigration power, experts call for a fact-based debate

OTTAWA – Some premiers say they want to have more local control over the immigration system — but experts say what the system really needs is a national conversation on immigration reform that shores up public support.

“Most of the existing policies have been formulated on the fly without any evidence or serious impact evaluations of what the various classes of immigrants are, how they’re performing economically and otherwise,” said Michael Trebilcock, a retired academic and co-author of two books on immigration policy.

“So it’s basically research-free.”

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The secret Labour plot to silence migrant hotel critics

A secretive Whitehall unit complained to US tech giants about social media posts criticising asylum hotels, immigration and ‘two-tier’ policing, it has emerged.

Officials working for Technology Secretary Peter Kyle warned TikTok about videos with ‘concerning narratives’ and claimed they were ‘exacerbating tensions’ on the streets.

Emails sent by the Government’s National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT) during last year’s Southport riots have been obtained by a US congressional committee.

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Anthony Koch: Just because I’m a child of immigrants doesn’t mean I support mass immigration

I am the grandchild of four immigrants. On one side, southern Italian peasants from small, scorched villages where life was bitter and short. They came to Canada with no English, no status and no illusions. They worked, they scraped, they built.

On the other side was a family that was expelled from Egypt — cast out, humiliated and dispossessed by the country they called home. They arrived here not to be celebrated but to be left alone, to rebuild in peace, far from the politics that ruined their lives. That is the blood that runs through me. And I will not let it be used as a cudgel against my reason.

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EISEN: Canada’s summer job market slump is bad news for young people in more ways than one

According to new data from Statistics Canada, young Canadians are facing a historically challenging job market. In June, the unemployment rate for young people (aged 15-24) was 14.2%, up from 13.5% in June 2024, which was already a bad year in historical terms. By comparison, in the pre-pandemic years from 2017 to 2019, the average youth unemployment rate in June averaged 10.9%.

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