University and college leaders say limiting international student scam will create financial risks

A federal cap on study permits for international students will create financial risks for postsecondary schools in some parts of the country, which could lead to layoffs and program closings, and affect Canada’s reputation, according to university and college leaders.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Monday that he’s imposing a two-year cap on international study permits that will cut the number of new permits issued by about 35 per cent this year. The number of international students in Canada grew rapidly in recent years to more than 800,00 in 2023, which Mr. Miller said put pressure on housing and health care.

More than a few universities should go under.

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Elon Musk Says Biden Administration ‘Actively Aiding Illegal Immigration’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sharply criticized the Biden administration’s legal actions to force Arizona to dismantle a makeshift border wall and later to allow federal agents to remove Texas’s razor wire barrier, accusing the executive branch under President Joe Biden of “actively aiding illegal immigration.”

Mr. Musk made the remark in a message on X, commenting on a post by the End Wokeness account that pointed out that the Biden administration sued both Arizona and Texas over the states’ respective efforts to bolster the security of their border communities amid record waves of people crossing into the United States unlawfully.

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B.C., Ontario vow to crack down on diploma mill schools exploiting Trudeau’s mass immigration scam

B.C. and Ontario are vowing to crack down on private post-secondary institutions that are accused of exploiting international students, after the federal government announced Monday it will cap the number of student permits issued in the next two years.

Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced the government will reduce the number of student visas by 35 per cent for 2024, stating the goal is in part to target private institutions he described as “the diploma equivalent of puppy mills.”

I don’t believe this for a minute.

A very good explanation of the housing crisis and why the Liberals can’t fix it doing what they’re doing.

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CBC – More immigrants will fix our collapsing heath care system that’s collapsing from mass immigration!

Canada’s population is booming — access to family doctors hasn’t kept pace

Canada is going through an unprecedented growth spurt, having added well over a million people last year after a similarly historic intake in 2022.

Some economists have argued this record-setting surge could be a boon to an economy heavily dependent on immigration. A recent Desjardins report cautioned the federal government against slamming the door on non-permanent residents like students and temporary workers, who make up most of the recent newcomers.


CBC’s Liberal Party spin– More immigrants will fix our collapsing heath care system that’s collapsing from mass immigration!

These heartless bastards will lie about anything for the Liberals.

 They don’t give a damn about the harm Justin’s insane mass immigration scam has caused Canadians.

Anyone who works for CBC or Dejardins deserves to be pissed on.

Read this…

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Will Canada FINALLY shut the migrant back door? Ottawa weighs forcing Mexican asylum seekers to have visas before they enter – to stop them flying in and sneaking across the US border

Canada looks poised to shut the ‘side door’ into the US by finally imposing visa requirements on Mexicans flying into the country.

A lack of visa requirements for Mexicans has turned into thousands of asylum-seekers, Quebec’s premier said earlier this week.

‘We’re looking at a whole series of options, which would include visas, of course,’ the Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

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FIRST READING: Canada’s rapidly fraying social cohesion

Polls are beginning to show signs that Canadians are breaking with their traditional reputation for tolerant social cohesion.

In just the last few months, there’s been a significant breakdown in the numbers of Canadians viewing immigration as an automatic good. At the same time, tensions between Canada’s various demographics are on the upswing – most notably when it comes to Canadian Muslims.

For decades, immigration polls have typically showed that the average Canadian is skeptical about increasing immigration levels, and worried that newcomers aren’t integrating. But these fears were usually checked by an overall acceptance that immigration was a net good for the country.

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Foreign Student Scam: Canada unveils new restrictions on work permits for international students, spouses

The federal government has announced new measures to limit and curb the abuse of Canada’s international student program.

Starting on Sept. 1, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Monday, the federal government will stop issuing postgraduate work permits to international students who graduate from programs provided under so-called Public College-Private Partnerships.

Furthermore, for most of the international students who are not studying in graduate schools or in a professional program such as medicine or law, their spouses will no longer receive a work permit to work in Canada.


WTF! The Liberals were letting the spouses in too?

It’s only a 2 year cap and the number of permits is being reduced to 364K, a reduction of only 35% that’s still too many as this was just a Liberal party scam to begin with.

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Joe Biden’s Death Wish

His border policy is Trump’s greatest gift.

Should Republicans, as Donald Trump is arguing, steer clear and let President Biden continue to bear the political costs of the border crisis? Or should they move the ball on policy as much as possible, even if it somewhat alleviates Biden’s difficulty going into the election?

This is a fascinating discussion, but it raises the question why Biden wouldn’t make it moot by helping himself out of his own border crisis.

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Number of international students now exceeds one million, official figures show

Vicious idiots run Canada

The number of international students in Canada now exceeds one million, according to official figures that show an increase that has escalated far faster than the government’s own internal forecasts.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada told The Globe and Mail that at the end of December, there were 1,028,850 study permit holders, with just over half of them in Ontario.

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THOMSON: Bernier was right on immigration, wasn’t he?

Finally.

In the lead up to the 2019 federal election, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was uncannily prophetic on immigration.

Right now immigration, and its impact on housing, jobs and affordability becomes a successively bigger topic each week.

More and more columnists, journalists, economists and politicians are talking about it. Yet none of them has given even a grudging acknowledgement to Maxime Bernier’s 2019 platform on this issue.

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Canada is buckling under record immigration

Rising migration levels are putting public services under strain

Population growth used to be determined by birth rates. But in the infertile West, it’s increasingly immigration policy which makes the difference. One might think, then, that no government would use this power beyond reasonable bounds. However, that’s to reckon without Justin Trudeau. During his eight years in office, the Canadian Prime Minister has pursued a recklessly liberal immigration policy. 

H/T SweetPea

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‘Huge spike’ in population adding to pressures on Ontario ERs

“Huge spikes” in population are adding to the “sustained pressure” felt by the province’s emergency rooms, the Ontario Hospital Association is warning.

In a statement Wednesday, the group said Ontario’s rapidly rising population is linked to growing wait times and high levels of hospital occupancy amid the circulation of rampant respiratory illnesses.

As of January 13, there were 1,274 COVID-19 patients, 445 flu patients and 158 RSV patients receiving care at Ontario hospitals, according to the OHA.

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Douglas Todd: Ottawa insider warns about immigrant-investor schemes

“The strange story of Vancouver” is the name of an internal immigration department memo that reveals the many things wrong with Canada’s earlier business-investor programs. That hasn’t stopped Ottawa from expanding a related scheme.

An adviser within Canada’s immigration department is warning about the dangers of entry programs that favour entrepreneurs, given the failure of earlier initiatives.

The internal cautions come at the same time the immigration department, which has been under fire from top bank economists for damaging the economy by bringing in a record 1.25 million permanent and temporary residents in a year, is expanding another program that gives preference to would-be entrepreneurs.

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