A tyranny foisted on a people can be overcome.
When the people inflict this kind of suffering on themselves, well ... :
Minister Miller says he’ll listen to arguments about whether current immigration targets are correct. The official target has been bumped up to 500,000 a year from 400,000, though in 2022 we hit 1.2 million — the only target Ottawa has bested in recent years.
But the minister will only listen so much. Attack lines are at the ready. As he said shortly after taking his new office: “In every wave of migration that Canada has had, there has been a segment of folks that have blamed immigrants for taking houses, taking jobs, you name it. Those are people that don’t necessarily have the best interest of immigrants at heart and we have to call that out when we see it and we won’t hesitate to do that.” No one who has watched the prime minister drive wedge after wedge into Canadian policy debates over the last eight years has the slightest doubt the Liberals will do that. People who would like to debate the immigration targets may well be anti-immigrant, Miller’s statement suggests, which is but one step of slippery logic away from the R-word: racist.
In this day and age, of course, we never actually discuss a policy issue: we look for the slightest doctrinal misstep in our ideological adversaries’ arguments and pounce, self-righteously claiming the moral high ground while accusing our opponents of having fallen into an ethical ditch.
Immigration seems an area where informed and informative debate will be especially difficult. So kudos to TD Economics for recently issuing a short study of the issue: “Balancing Canada’s pop in population,” by Beata Caranci, James Orlando and Rishi Sondhi. At a time when big banks seem to specialize in serving up politically correct pablum, this piece raises hard questions about how desirable a big boost in immigration is.
It gets better.
Increased immigration keeping people on the streets is not going to stop.
No word on what streets these people are to live on.
Somewhat related - increased migration was about building loyal voters block and cheap labour.
Federal inspectors have stepped up six-figure fines against employers accused of breaching migrant labour regulations, records show. The labour department as late as 2017 conducted no in-person spot inspections under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program: “They have had ample opportunity to act on this.”
Battaglia concurs that housing affordability is holding up well in Alberta, but says there are early signs that Maritime provinces — an earlier hot spot for interprovincial migration — are seeing housing market competition heat up.
Even if buyers end up increasingly boxed out of Alberta markets, Battaglia highlights Winnipeg, St. John’s, N.L., Saskatoon and Regina as a few cities carrying the flame of affordability. She argues, however, that the need to rapidly add housing supply will perpetually be a national concern as long as these hot spots remain in the country and Canadians uproot themselves to find an affordable life.
“Demand is not going to wane,” she says. “Cities grow, populations expand, and we just need to increase the supply of housing to accommodate that.”
According to this article, it takes anywhere from six to ten months to complete a single family dwelling in Canada.
The first day of fall is on September 23rd of this year.
The weather dips from there.
Are there jobs for these people claiming to be refugees? How will they pay for these houses?
China could have been fined $25,000 for flying a suspected spy balloon over Canada without a federal permit, according to a Department of Transport briefing note. The balloon instead was shot down by U.S. fighter jets last February 4 and recovered in the Atlantic off Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: “Any individual that breaks these rules can be subject to fines.”
It's just money:
A South Pacific junket led by Commons Speaker Anthony Rota cost taxpayers more than $150,000, records show. Guests invited to a three-day conference included a Liberal-appointed Commons clerk who resigned after he was accused of sleeping on the job: “Cooperation is a prerequisite for furthering people-to-people contact.”**
Five months after the federal budget abandoned plans to balance Canada’s books by 2027, new data from the country’s budgetary watchdog suggest a return to balance might not happen until the next decade.
Released late last month, supplementary data provided alongside Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux’s 2023 Fiscal Sustainability report projects the earliest the government could balance the budget would be 2035.
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The federal government spent more than $20 million on public opinion research last year, nearly twice what it spent just three years ago.
In the last fiscal year, the government commissioned 164 polls spread across 34 departments and spent $20.3 million. The money went to 20 different public opinion firms.
It has always been about himself:
Justin Trudeau appears to want privacy for his family like Meghan and Harry want privacy for theirs, selectively at best.
Just days after posting about his separation from wife Sophie and asking for privacy, especially for the children, Trudeau was posting personal photos to social media.
And, no, he won't leave office.
Nor will his dad's foundation admit that it is occupied by creeps.
Coilten Boushie went to the Stanley farm with the express purpose of robbing those who resided on it.
The RCMP braced for backlash across rural Saskatchewan and kept a close eye on Indigenous groups after the not guilty verdict of a farmer charged in the death of Colten Boushie, emails show.
The former top Mountie in the province also warned officers to watch their opinions, and police carefully watched and weighed in on testimony in the highly charged murder trial that exposed racial divides.
Essentially, the Stasi lived in fear of a minority that refused to accept that Boushie brought his fate on himself.
Silence is big in this industry.
Mr. Baja’s disclosure that Mr. Gadhafi secretly stashed “billions” in Canadian financial institutions during his 42-year rule in Libya – made in an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail – comes at a critical time for both countries.Libya is renewing its efforts to recover billions of dollars’ worth of missing assets that were looted by Mr. Gadhafi and his inner circle. That global hunt is resuming as political deadlock threatens to thwart plans to hold long-promised elections in Libya this year, fuelling fears of additional delays in repatriating state assets.Canada, which has seen its internal affairs rocked by Libya-related scandals in recent years, is facing international criticism for its failure to find and freeze dirty money, and for its lax enforcement of global sanctions.Given Libya’s shaky security situation, Mr. Baja says it’s his responsibility to prevent the financial assets uncovered in Canada from falling into the wrong hands, including Libyan militias. In the years following the overthrow of Mr. Gadhafi, rival factions attempted to abscond with some of his recovered assets. That’s why Mr. Baja chose to hide the cache of Canadian financial records until his country has a democratic government.“I cannot give it to anybody else except an elected government – a legal one,” Mr. Baja said in a telephone interview from Benghazi, Libya. He declined to provide the documents to The Globe.“There is money in these [documents], the account numbers, in fact,” he later added.When asked to be more precise about the amount of money traced to Mr. Gadhafi at unnamed Canadian banks, Mr. Baja declined to provide specifics. “We are talking about a billionaire,” he said.Mr. Gadhafi used front men, including Canadian proxies, to open bank accounts and shell corporations on his behalf to hide part of his fortune outside of Libya, according to two other people familiar with the matter. Additionally, Mr. Gadhafi intermingled his personal wealth with Libyan state funds in bank accounts in Canada and other countries, they said.
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