Pierre Poilievre’s housing movie: What it gets right and wrong, and what was left unsaid

… Which brings me back to the elephant in the room, which Housing hell never mentions: immigration.

In the long run, over decades and centuries, Canada can match housing supply to housing demand, regardless of whether the national population is 40 million or 400 million. But in the here and now, a surge in new arrivals, particularly since the pandemic – with one million new residents in 2022, and likely more this year – has introduced housing demand at a far faster pace than supply can be built.

It’s simple math. There’s no getting around it. And both the Prime Minister and the man after his job would rather not talk about it.

Finally.

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Current levels of temporary immigration are unsustainable

Canada and Quebec experienced a sudden and unexpected explosion in their populations in 2022. At 2.4% and almost 1.8% respectively, this is the strongest one-year population growth in at least half a century.

The main source of this explosion is the extraordinarily high level of temporary immigration. However, political leaders tend to focus their attention purely on the number of permanent immigrants (for example, 500,000 in Canada in 2025, or 50,000 to 60,000 in Quebec in 2027) and “omit” temporary immigration.

This is a serious error of assessment.

Google translate used.

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Liberals hike income requirement for foreign students, targeting ‘puppy mill’ schools

OTTAWA – Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa will require foreigners applying to study in Canada to have double the amount of funds currently required.

Miller says the change is among those meant to ensure international students aren’t left vulnerable to sketchy employers and unable to afford life in Canada.

He is also warning provinces the Liberals might limit visas if colleges and universities don’t adequately support students, but he tells reporters that governments need to have more conversations before such changes.


This is garbage. The Liberals are doing their best to keep the scam going. No one will be monitoring results of the “fix.”

Always a silver lining … York University’s low enrolment and reliance on international students putting school at risk: auditor general

York University’s reliance on international students from China and India, as well as its steadily decreasing domestic enrolment, is putting the institution at risk, according to Ontario’s auditor general.

A report released by acting auditor general Nick Stavropoulos on Wednesday found that 23 per cent of the university’s undergraduate programs had 20 or fewer students enrolled.

Despite this, the number of senior administrators have increased by 37 per cent between 2018-19 and 2022-23. The audit found that 250 new positions had been added primarily to academic staff and faculty while tuition revenue and government grant funding remained flat.

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Trudeau’s Canada: Refugees and newcomers changing face of homelessness according to Calgary front-line workers

Calgary outreach worker Chaz Smith and his team of volunteers have been distributing food, clothes and referrals for services to the city’s unhoused for nine years.

The founder of BeTheChangeYYC says most of those facing homelessness during that time have been Caucasian or Indigenous.

But these days, he’s noticing more newcomer faces.

Keep those immigrant floodgates open.

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Corporate Crony Class Win: Canadian Unemployment Rises, Immigrants Sold On Non-Existent Opportunities, Depressed Wages For All!

Canada’s labor market is stronger than expected, but most weren’t expecting much. Today’s Statistics Canada (Stat Can) Labor Force Survey (LFS) update shows the economy added more jobs than expected in November. However, the data also revealed more laborers were added than work, boosting unemployment. The trend is seen continuing near-term, with recent immigrants bearing the brunt. Most were struggling to find the relevant work they were sold on at record low unemployment. It doesn’t get easier as competition rises for roles in a downturn.

We are a Banana Republic.

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Pierre Poilievre promises to put Canadians before corporate interests: ‘I’m not interested in a free lunch’

“When I’m prime minister, I will only do things that workers and consumers have been convinced are good for them. So, in the future, businesses that want a policy decision made are not just going to have to convince me that it’s the right thing, they’re going to have to convince workers and consumers,” he said.

“I’m not interested in a free lunch over at the Rideau Club.”

Mass Immigration was never mentioned by Poilievre if the Star story is accurate.

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Illegal alien invaders land boat on Malibu beach close to home of whiny Barbra Streisand who lashed Trump’s wall

Astonishing footage captured a boat filled with migrants landing on the beach in ritzy Malibu – close to the home of famed bleeding-heart liberal Barbra Streisand.

Around 25 people were seen leaping out of the vessel around 1am November 28, near the $100 million compound of Streisand an arch critic of Donald Trump, who called his border wall a ‘monument to himself’.

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Double Standards on Hate Speech Follow Dublin Riots

A Limerick politician has called for the killing of participants in the November 23 Dublin riots. Abul Kalam Azad Talukder—celebrated as Limerick’s first-ever Muslim city councillor upon his election earlier this year—stated he wished to see the rioters shot in the head or beaten to death following last week’s violence, sparked by the stabbing of several children and a teaching assistant by a naturalised Algerian immigrant.

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Ireland needs to talk about immigration

The elites have maintained a conspiracy of silence following the Dublin knife attack.

The knife attack on three primary-school children and a school-care assistant in Dublin last week shocked Ireland. It happened in broad daylight on Parnell Square, close to Dublin’s busiest streets. And it was witnessed by tourists, Dubliners and thousands of CCTV cameras.

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Three in Four Canadians Say Higher Immigration Is Worsening Housing Crisis: Poll

A large majority of Canadians agree that higher immigration is fuelling the housing crisis and putting pressure on the health-care system, a new Leger poll suggests.

New federal voting intention numbers from the polling firm also show that the Conservatives are maintaining their sizable lead over the governing Liberals.

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Ireland on the Verge of Establishing an Oppressive Censorship Regime

The ferocious desire of Ireland’s myopic and feckless governing class to crack down on speech that it considers “hateful” seems at last to be reaching fruition. After a riot in Dublin was blamed on “far-right” agitators, the country’s taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, renewed his push for a stricter set of legal restrictions on the free expression of the citizenry. “It’s now very obvious to anyone who might have doubted us,” Varadkar said last week, “that our incitement-to-hatred legislation is just not up to date.” “We need that legislation through,” he insisted, “and we need it through in a matter of weeks.”

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It’s not ‘far right’ to want curbs on immigration

Almost every day brings fresh evidence that immigration is a crisis in the midst of which the government is flailing. Legal migration totals have hit a record high. Provisional figures from the Office for National Statistics show that, in the year ending last June, 672,000 more people came into the country than left it.

This is a staggering rise from a net migration rate of 212,000 a decade ago. If this rate continues, by the year 2046 the UK’s population will increase from approximately 67 million people today to about 85 million. The pressure on housing, schools and health services will be unsustainable. In addition, with so many coming from countries that don’t share cultural values or historic links with the West, the country’s character will be transformed in ways for which the public has never voted.

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Almost 16000 so called “Foreign Students” have asked for refugee status in yet another immigration scam tolerated by Trudeau government

Maybe they’re women who have transitioned to male!

More international students are seeking asylum in Canada, numbers reveal

The number of international students who seek asylum in Canada has more than doubled in the past five years, according to government data obtained under an access-to-information request.

The number of refugee claims made by study permit holders has gone up 2.7 times to 4,880 cases last year from 1,835 in 2018, as the international student population also surged by 1.4 times to 807,750 from 567,065 in the same period.

Over the five years, a total of 15,935 international students filed a refugee claim in the country.

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The Death of the Old Europe—and the Rise of the Right

Europe is in shock. Geert Wilders—variously called “far-right,” an “anti-Islamist populist,” and the Dutch Donald Trump—won last Wednesday’s election in the Netherlands. His party is now the biggest in the Dutch parliament. For years, Wilders has been an outcast, considered too toxic by mainstream politics and too extreme by the overwhelmingly liberal media. And yet he has won—and not by a small margin.

Europe is in shock. We are not.

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