Canadians first? That priority conflicts with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s immigration agenda impacting a country he didn’t help build but one he’ll continue to methodically debilitate until Canada is free of him.
The Liberals are ignoring opposition protests and sticking to dangerously high 2024 immigration quotas they set, as struggling Canadians increasingly worry about having a place to call home. And many don’t even have a home anymore.
Councils are compulsorily purchasing empty properties to meet a surge in the number of asylum seekers being granted leave to remain in the UK.
Council chiefs have complained they are not being given enough time to find alternative accommodation for successful asylum seekers because of the Home Office’s faster decision-making to clear huge backlogs of cases.
The policy has been highlighted by the plight of an elderly couple who were told they had to give up their home to asylum seekers because of a shortage of suitable accommodation.
Some days you’re the dog and some days you’re the tree.
Housing minister Sean Fraser must have had that arboreal feeling as he read a Canadian Press story that said as immigration minister he ignored warnings from his department that allowing foreign students to work more than 20 hours a week could lead to “program integrity” concerns.
In other words, there was a concern among officials that hundreds of thousands of foreign students could arrive in Canada to work in low-skilled jobs and do a little studying on the side while, in the meantime, driving up housing costs.
Housing minister denies he ignored warning about immigration levels and housing supply
OTTAWA – Housing Minister Sean Fraser said he didn’t ignore warnings as immigration minister about the number of new Canadians the country was accepting exceeding the number of houses the country was building.
The Liberals immigration targets set to plateau next year at 500,000 permanent residents are twice what the targets were when they came to office in 2015.
Fraser appeared at the House of Commons finance committee, where Conservative MP Jasraj Singh Hallan demanded to know why he had failed to act on that warning in his last cabinet post as immigration minister.
There is no “labour shortage” – Canada’s much-touted labour shortage is mostly a mirage
… Despite that apparent shortage, wages are not rising in response. That could be explained in part by a lack of pricing power by some employers. They may not be able to increase their own prices enough to absorb the cost of higher wages.
The heart of the answer, however, is the rise in the number of temporary foreign workers who are willing to work for cut-rate wages and are not as able to shift jobs nearly as easily as Canadian residents. The number of such workers has exploded since the pandemic, jumping to 120,000 at the end of 2022 from 73,360 at the end of 2019.
Our Captains of Industry loved indentured servants.
As a victim-services advocate in Chicago, Zerlina Smith-Members struggles every day to obtain scarce resources and shelter space for victims of violence in the city.
As a black mother and activist on Chicago’s West Side, she can’t help but notice the poor-performing schools, the bad health outcomes, the food deserts, the homelessness, the high taxes, the gangs, and the illegal guns that plague her community.
“It’s just a lot, and it’s overwhelming,” Smith-Members said of the challenges.
Most people living in Canada who have been sent deportation letters in the past eight years are still in the country, according to official figures disclosed by the Canada Border Services Agency.
The figures show that 14,609 people were sent letters informing them they are facing deportation between 2016 and May last year.
But 9,317 of those were still living in Canada last year, including 2,188 people sent deportation letters in 2016 and 2017.
This is deliberate. The Trudeau government treats Canada like shit.
As the Biden administration and “shadowy network of secretive nonprofits” facilitate the greatest migration invasion this nation has ever seen on the southern border, new concerns are mounting that illegals are finding alternative routes into the country via the unfenced northern border with Canada.
New US Customs and Border Protection data shows more than 12,000 migrants were apprehended on the northern border last year, more than double the number from the year before of 3,578.
The record-breaking surge of illegal entries from Canada continues in Swanton Sector. A citizen’s report in Champlain, NY, led to the arrest of 10 Bangladesh citizens. Agents rely on the vigilance of our community.
If you see something, say something! Call 1-800-689-3362. pic.twitter.com/eSTMV8HwOu— Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia (@USBPChiefSWB) February 8, 2024
h/t DS
Failing to properly vet newcomers will hinder social cohesion
I came to Canada as a political refugee. In my home country of Iran, I was arrested, tortured and later received a prison sentence for my student-organizing activities. I had a month to surrender to prison. Instead, I decided to leave the country with the help of a smuggler. I escaped through the mountains, partly on horseback, to Turkey, where I applied for asylum through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In a dilapidated farm shed in New York’s rural North Country, the belongings of a migrant family who quietly took shelter one night were still visible months later: some clothing and children’s shoes, stiffened by the cold and a thin blanket of snow.
Thomas Brassard recalled his surprise when he saw the family — a husband, wife and two children — emerge from the shed as he started his truck in the early morning.
Over 980,000 Canadian study permits were issued to foreign students in 2023, according to recently released records.
The information was released by the Department of Immigration in response to a request by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, who inquired how many students were studying at each institution in Canada, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
In their eagerness to gain a foothold in Canada, some residents of the Indian state of Punjab and elsewhere have gone to unusual lengths — including transactional marriages.
Their families paid the migration expenses of individuals who passed the standardized English exam needed to obtain a study visa here — in exchange for the person marrying them. As spouses of those English-proficient students, the new husbands or wives were — until last month at least — allowed to obtain work permits in Canada.
… Ottawa fostered a parallel immigration system that is now far larger than the traditional, permanent immigration system. And unlike the regular immigration system’s economic-immigration stream, the focus is on low-wage labour. The impact is seen in falling gross domestic product per capita and rental housing prices rising much faster than the rate of inflation. Both have the effect of lowering living standards, particularly for low- and middle-income Canadians.
No other developed country is pursuing a policy anything like this.
Federal immigration authorities caught and released a Pakistani man who illegally crossed the southern border and whose name appeared on the terror watchlist, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Canada has long been a draw for people from India’s Punjab province seeking new opportunities elsewhere. But has the Canadian dream soured?
It’s hard to miss the ardour of Punjab’s migrant ambitions when driving through its fertile rural plains.
Billboards promising easy immigration to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK jut out through ample mustard fields.
Off the highways, consultancies offer English language coaching to eager youth.
Mexican cartels are among the organized-crime groups being investigated for smuggling people to Canada, a committee of MPs looking into the issue heard Wednesday.
The RCMP told the House of Commons immigration committee that people trying to make it to Canada were vulnerable and that “organized criminals of all stripes – Mexican cartels included – will exploit that.”
