New provincial legislation will target “bad-actor” immigration consultants who prey on newcomers with fines and lifetime bans as punishment.
Announced Wednesday in Brampton by David Piccini, minister of labour, immigration, training and skills development, the measures will set out new, tougher rules for immigration representatives that could require them to issue written contracts, show proof of their licence, and give applicants the right to see their files.
Amid the last-ditch effort to reverse the wreckage of his government’s radical immigration policies, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing ahead with a series of restrictionist moves designed to signal to Canadian voters that he has heard their frustrations.
… One expected route people appear to be making is asylum claims, a.k.a. refugee claims. Canada saw 133k refugee claims made as of September year to date (YTD), up 38% from last year. More so, 63.9% of those claims were filed at inland offices, meaning those making a claim were already in the country. Inland filings hover around 50% of total annual claims in previous years, so these filings are a large part of the soaring claims.
One segment of temporary residents, international students, saw a big jump recently. According to an analysis in the Globe, about 13.7k of this year’s refugee claims YTD were people on study permits. At 4.5x the average volume seen in prior years, this volume is unheard of in Canada.
Migration has spiralled under his leadership, and the political backlash has been immense
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced his Liberal government was going to cut immigration levels for the first time in years. The number of permanent residents in 2025 will decrease from a previously announced target of 500,000 to 395,000, or 21 percent.
What caused this abrupt shift? Trudeau said in an Oct. 24 press conference that Ottawa “didn’t get the balance quite right” in the post-pandemic period with respect to significant labour shortages. Hence, the government’s decision to “pause population growth” would help adjust this economic deficiency.
Hold on. The Left-wing Canadian PM actually did something right for a change? It’s a miracle! Hallelujah!
New survey finds Canadians are feeling anxious about immigration
Canadians are feeling increasingly uneasy about immigration and its role in generating “economic strain,” according to a new survey conducted by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Among other things, the survey found that many Canadians believe too much attention is being focused on newcomers and refugees, and that asylum seekers receive too many benefits.
In a contest for which liberal-minded policy project has gone most disastrously wrong, there would have to be big money on immigration.
There are rivals, of course. The massive debts racked up to finance heavy spending on well-meaning initiatives is one, but voters don’t care much about debt until it sparks a crisis. The climate war is another, except most people view it as a worthy goal, they just don’t want to pay for it.
According to a government document circulated online on Monday, people seeking asylum in Canada can receive $224 per day to cover housing and food while waiting for application processing — that’s $81,760 per year.
Claimants in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) operated hotels, regardless of how they enter Canada, are provided with accommodations and meals once they are relocated, says the document dated March 14, noting the average cost per room across all sites is $140 per night. The average cost per day for meals is $84.
Immigrants sick of being scapegoated plan one-day strike Dec. 18
This year “we’ve seen an aggressive shift against the temporary migrant in Canada, whether student, refugee, temporary worker, with numerous migration restrictions from one day to the next that are creating greater precariousness for migrant workers,” Immigrant Workers Centre organizer Hector Salamanca told reporters.
The Grift is over.
New from Pierre Poilievre on Trudeau’s deliberate breaking of immigration.
More of this. pic.twitter.com/U5C0kltS4z
— National Citizens Coalition (@NatCitizens) November 17, 2024
Maria Alfaro has built a life in Canada with two hard-earned postgraduation diplomas in human resources and organizational management.
Since arriving here more than five years ago, the former international student from El Salvador has made new friends, joined a church and worked as an administrative assistant at a Toronto law firm.
Lately she is feeling deflated as the window of her Canadian dream is closing and her days in the country are numbered.
Not bloody likely, the Trudeau government has already lost track of an earlier cohort of 1 Million temporary residents: A million more non-permanent residents live in Canada than official figures say, ministers told
And this is why you can’t trust the Liberal Party’s CBC propaganda … Liberal government’s immigration plan will cut housing gap almost in half, report says
Immigration targets slashed! Drastic reduction in temporary residents. Canada to reduce new immigration by 21 per cent.
Headlines like these dominated the news after Ottawa announced it was reducing Canada’s intake of permanent residents by 21 per cent over the next three years, alongside new measures to bring the population of temporary immigrants into line with goals for it.
Since we're playing blame games today, here's a clip from June 24, 2021 where 3 leaders of @CI2100 argue that Feds should expand economic-class PR pathways to low-skill workers to make it easier for employers to recruit temporary foreign workers without needing to raise wages. pic.twitter.com/IYBWimTasF
— Mikal Skuterud (@mikalskuterud) November 11, 2024
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown says he wants city council to pass a bylaw to keep Hindu and Sikh protesters away from each other after violent and raucous protests in the Ontario city.
The municipality’s move comes amid rising concern about foreign interference in Canada and as several other suburban centres impose buffer zones for houses of worship to shield them from heated protests by demonstrators responding to rising geopolitical tensions.
Sikh Canadians are mainstream Canadians. What the hell are you talking about?
You immigrated to Canada recently, spend your time infiltrating the local rightwing media by saying borderline racist stuff, and have zero connection to the country whatsoever.
Go back home. https://t.co/2FItLE6P02
— deadlifts for blackrock (@jeetsidhu_) November 6, 2024
Tim Hortons parent Restaurant Brands misses sales estimates on muted demand
Restaurant Brands missed estimates for quarterly revenue on Tuesday due to weak demand across key businesses such as Tim Hortons, Burger King and international markets including China and the Middle East.
The Toronto-based company’s U.S.-listed shares were down five per cent before the bell.
The Canadian Immigration Department has admitted to ignoring whether foreign workers took Canadian jobs or kept wages low, Blacklock’s Reporter has reported.
Impacts are not monitored, said an internal report.
“The program is built on the assumption that benefits to Canada from the facilitation of select foreign workers exceed any potential harm to the domestic labour market,” said the Evaluation Of The International Mobility Program. “However document review and key informants pointed out that labour market impacts are not monitored.”
Trudeau, his cabinet, their corporate cronies and anyone else responsible for the Liberal Party’s cruel mass immigration scam should be jailed.
Peel police have ordered a large crowd gathered for a demonstration outside a Hindu temple in Brampton to disperse after officers observed weapons.
In a post on social media Monday evening, police said the demonstration on The Gore Road near Tyler Avenue had been declared an “unlawful assembly” due to the presence of weapons within the crowd, and as a result, the Public Order Unit had been deployed to clear the area.
“All individuals are to disperse immediately or face arrest,” police added.
@rcmpgrcpolice being attacked by Hindu Mobs in Brampton.
Absolutely unfathomable !!!— Kamran Chida (@ChidaKamran) November 5, 2024
