OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country welcomed more than 145,000 immigrants during the first three months of the year.
That’s the highest number for a single quarter on record, since comparable data became available in 1972.
No one in the PC Party has spoken out about this assault on Canada.
As Canada’s population reaches the milestone of 40 million people, economists and housing experts are warning that accelerating immigration numbers could strain the country’s housing market and health-care system.
“My first reaction is that it’s great for the people coming to the country, but maybe it’s not so great for the people in the country,” Frank Clayton, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Toronto Metropolitan University, said in an interview.
Immigration has been depoliticised in the EU
Exactly seven years ago today, time stopped: when the Brexit vote came in, heartbroken British liberals and exultant Brexiteers both preserved for their warring purposes an image of the European Union forever frozen in time on an eternal 23rd June 2016. But history moves on, and eventually even the British comment class notices. As a perceptive recent Telegraph piece noted, the political polarities attached to Britain’s relationship with the EU are almost certain to shift, as European leaders become increasingly receptive to their voters’ demands to radically limit immigration, and British liberals become more deeply enmeshed in the utopian dreams of American liberalism.
Should Canada deny care to ”birth tourists,” pregnant women who visit Canada with the sole purpose of delivering their babies here, thereby obtaining automatic Canadian citizenship for their newborns?
It’s a provocative, and, some say, dangerous suggestion. However, a leading expert in preterm and multiple births is arguing that Canadian hospitals and doctors should have “absolutely zero tolerance” for birth tourism, a phenomenon that is rising once again now that COVID travel restrictions have been dropped.
Getting rich off the poor.
As the immense human tragedy at the nation’s southern border unfolds, an organization claiming to fight for the vulnerable remains breathtakingly silent.
That organization, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, vigorously fought President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a wall to curtail the trafficking in human lives — especially children — and drugs that accompany the kind of open borders Pope Francis advocates. But since Joe Biden became America’s virtual president, and especially since Title 42 expired, the bishops’ public opposition to federal policy evaporated.
Why the glaring reversal?
Of the 7,141 cases where security screeners sent IRCC a ‘non-favourable’ recommendation during the years covered by the audit, 3,314 were allowed into Canada
OTTAWA – Nearly half of foreign nationals flagged by security agencies to the Immigration Department for ties to serious offences including war crimes, espionage and terrorism were allowed to take up residency in Canada between 2014 and 2019.
An internal audit of the Immigration National Security Screening Program found that immigration officials ultimately approved temporary or permanent residency, or refugee applications for 46 per cent of the more than 7,000 cases where the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) recommended against applicants being allowed into the country.
It’s an argument that comes up time after time whenever there is a discussion about the housing crisis that plagues Metro Vancouver or anywhere else in Canada.
If Canada can’t house the people who already live here, we should stop letting more people into the country.
On Friday, the country’s population hit 40 million, with nearly all of last year’s growth due to immigration. The federal government has signed on to allow up to 500,000 newcomers into Canada annually by 2025.
This should have been headlined CBC Explains Why You’re A Racist For Objecting To Trudeau’s Mass Immigration Policy That Will Destroy Your Social & Financial Security.
The usual garbage “analysis” is thrown up i.e. immigrants are necessary for economic growth.
They fail to mention that immigrants themselves age and thus are not a fix for Canada’s aging demographic or that Canada no longer attracts the “younger immigrant” that can give as much as they take over the course of their working lives.
Our immigration policy is so sick that most granted permanent resident status can’t even be bothered to take out Canadian citizenship any longer because we’re just a waystation on the route to greener pastures to them: In 2021, of the permanent residents who had come to Canada within the last 10 years, just 45.7 per cent had become citizens. In 2001, that figure was 75.1 per cent.
The cost of family reunification with grandma and grandpa to Canada? Not mentioned.
They lie about a non-existent labour shortage and make no mention of how mass immigration depresses wages.
The impact of Automation and AI on employment? Not a factor in CBC land!
But they do let you know that you’re a racist for daring to defend your own best interests.
A different take on Mass Immigration …
Douglas Todd: Five things the West can do for the ‘left behind’
Oxford University economist Paul Collier told a North American says there are better ways than immigration to help the world’s poorest, whose ongoing plight will eventually destabilize the globe.
Despite the rain trickling down Saturday morning, about 100 protesters gathered at La Fontaine park in Montreal with plastic rain ponchos, umbrellas, signs and flags to set off on a three-day march toward Roxham Road, in the Montérégie.
Refugee advocacy groups, migrants and supporters will be walking 73 kilometres to protest the recent closure of Quebec’s irregular border crossing to asylum seekers arriving in Canada from the U.S.
Despite setbacks during COVID-19, Canada’s population is now growing at a “record-setting pace” and will soon pass the 40 million mark, reads a new update from Statistics Canada.
According to StatCan’s real-time population clock, Canada’s numbers will hit the 40 million mark just before 3 p.m. EST Friday, the organization said.
Given the housing shortage and the strain all services are suffering Trudeau’s mass immigration scam is a cruel and heartless act inflicted on Canadians.
It’s a sleazy plan concocted by Junior’s fellow China class crony Dominic Barton & others that will solely benefit the Corporate Class.
There is no labour shortage and asylum seekers are sleeping on the street.
Contrary to Junior’s Star this is nothing to celebrate as mass immigration is a criminal fraud in progress..
Only the People’s Party is speaking out about this travesty.
… And now suddenly, we’re seeing where — in the emergence of shantytowns now beginning to ring America’s major cities such as Houston, making them resemble Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Mexico City, Caracas, Medellín, Lima, Quito, San Pedro Sula, and other places — all of which have nice ritzy centers, housing for the rich and upper-middle classes, and endless rings of shantytowns in the hillsides and valleys outside these big cities, where the desperately poor live in tin-roof hovels, some precariously positioned on cliffs, with no flush toilets, no running water, no paved roads, no electricity, or only pilfered electricity from power lines to power the television sets and sometimes refrigerators inside. When I first saw the shack cities (known as ranchos rather than colonias in Venezuela), I needed to lie down, almost feeling as if I would faint. They were so huge and overwhelming…and awful. I felt the same way when I saw the shack cities ringing Tijuana, utterly horrified that such human misery could be so close to the prosperity of the United States. And Manila, Jakarta, Shenzhen — the same sensation.
Two weeks after the City of Toronto said it would begin referring refugee claimants seeking beds in its at-capacity shelter system to federal programs, asylum seekers who recently arrived in Canada are struggling to find places to sleep.
Birck Teklau arrived in Toronto from Ethiopia on June 3 hoping to claim asylum because, he says, of political persecution in his home country.
The 34-year-old says he’s been sleeping on the streets ever since — after being turned away from the city’s shelter system day after day.
“I tried many times…. They say that we don’t have [a] place,” Teklau said in an interview. “I never expected this from Canada.”
Perfect Manufactured Storm … Annual rate of housing starts in Canada fell 23% in May
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of housing starts in May dropped 23 per cent compared with April as starts of apartments, condos and other types of multi-unit housing projects in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal fell.
The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts was 202,494 units in May, down from 261,357 units in April.
… A recent Statistics Canada report suggested there are no widespread labour shortages for jobs that require high levels of education as the number of unemployed Canadians with a bachelor’s degree or higher education since 2016 has always exceeded the number of vacant positions that require at least an undergraduate education.
Akbar knows a number of people who have left Canada after completing their PhDs because they couldn’t find a job and moved to the U.S. or returned home, where their Canadian education is highly regarded.
… The 2021 census found that just 45.7 per cent of permanent residents became citizens within 10 years, down from 60 per cent in 2016 and 75.1 per cent in 2001.
The two countries from which Canada gets the most immigrants — India and China — don’t recognize dual citizenship. That has likely had an effect on Canadian citizenship uptake as newcomers are afraid Beijing and Delhi will strip their Chinese and Indian citizenship.
In a nutshell our immigration policy is horseshit and harms Canadian citizens and immigrants, but you knew that.
The only sectors of society to benefit are the corporate and permanent political classes who exploit shortages to profit from your misery.
“… Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada confirmed to The Globe there are “not set levels or limits” to the number of the work or study permits, as they are “driven by demand” from employers and postsecondary institutions. Ottawa has effectively created a shadow immigration department. “Increasingly, our immigration system has moved from state-run immigration to a system that is really controlled by non-state actors – the employers, the educational institutions,” said Rupa Banerjee, a Canada Research Chair in immigration and economics at Toronto Metropolitan University.”
Sick making how broken our immmigration system is.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson publicly denounced his country’s poor management of immigration this week in a landmark opinion piece for the Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet.
The article is just the latest sign of a political volte face in the Scandinavian country’s infamous immigration outlook, but one that makes sense with respect to Kristersson’s Moderate Party’s electoral pact with the right-wing Sweden Democrats, in place since 2022.
” … a new working paper from a trio of Canadian academic economists digs deeper into the issues around immigration. The paper, currently circulating in draft form under the title, The Economics of Canadian Immigration Levels, offers a scholarly but withering critique of current policy.
The authors – Matthew Doyle and Mikal Skuterud of the University of Waterloo, and Christopher Worswick of Carleton University – argue that policy makers are mistaken to conclude “that if some immigration is good for the economy, then more must be better.”
