Who Owns Canada, Anyway?

Not the people born here or who immigrated here and have a vested interest in actually being Canadian as opposed to buying up property or hating Jews in a different part of the world:

Cabinet is committed to raising last year’s immigration levels 117 percent to the highest rate in Canadian history, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said yesterday. This year’s quota eclipses the previous record of 400,900 immigrants set in 1913: “Those who possess the skills and experience will accelerate our economic recovery.”

 

Yes, about that: 

Three in five new immigrants to Canada hold a university degree but what appears to be a bonus is actually causing problems in meeting Canada’s actual skilled labour shortage, according to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), whose 110,000 members include construction contractors and renovators.

The majority of occupational shortages reported by small businesses are for jobs that require a college diploma or apprenticeship (46 per cent), followed by those that require a high school diploma or on-the-job training (31 per cent), a new CFIB report noted. 

However, of the economic immigrants admitted to Canada in 2017, CFIB notes only 17 per cent had a college diploma or apprenticeship experience and only 2 per cent had a high school diploma or on-the-job training. 

“In contrast, 60 per cent of immigrants had a university degree, but less than one in 10 occupations experiencing shortages require one,” explained Corinne Pohlmann, CFIB’s senior vice-president of national affairs. 

So much for that plan. One might as well just let them into a country that shows no discernment.

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The economic and life disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted some recent immigrants to leave Canada and return to their countries of origin, where they have more social and family connections.

The number of permanent residents who have been in Canada for less than five years declined by four per cent to 1,019,000 by the end of 2020 from 1,060,000 the year before, according to an analysis of Statistics Canada's labour force survey that measures the number of workers between 15 and 65 years old by their immigration status.

The number had grown three per cent a year, on average, in the previous 10 years.

The data show that the number of permanent residents who have been in Canada for five to 10 years also dropped from 1,170,000 in 2019 to 1,146,000 in 2020.

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Parks Canada proposes to introduce Mandarin-language programs in celebration of “a great Canadian hero,” Maoist propaganda figure Dr. Norman Bethune. The agency said Bethune’s Ontario birthplace will become a shrine to the Communist surgeon: “The man is a giant!”

  

I'll just leave this here:

One statue that remains unmolested is the one of Norman Bethune that sits peacefully on the campus of the University of Toronto. Yet, if ever there was a statue associated with the evils of a political idea, it is the good doctor’s. While his defenders will remind us of his courageous work saving lives during the war between Japan and China through his battlefield medical innovations, a complete story tells of a nasty and reckless surgeon who never quite earned the respect of his Canadian colleagues, and who sternly defended Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong, whose regimes starved and killed millions.

The mythology surrounding Bethune didn’t originate in Canada; it was created by Mao himself in a famous essay read by schoolchildren throughout China. Today, we use Bethune’s memory to attract thousands of Chinese tourists to his birthplace in Gravenhurst, Ont.