Where Are Those Doctors and Engineers We Were Promised?

Indeed.

 

To wit:

Curbing the number of temporary workers and international students allowed into Canada would deepen an expected recession and blunt the country’s subsequent recovery, according to Desjardins Securities Inc.

But consider this:

Canada's immigration system does not provide much help to the construction industry, says Sam Sanderson.

"Money is never going to solve the problem. It's people, and if we don't start bringing those skilled people in, we're really going to be in more trouble."

During the 2021 census, P.E.I. residents were asked about their immigration status, including whether they were immigrants or non-permanent residents. In one census report, Statistics Canada combined that information with information about education.

The report found that out of more than 5,000 non-permanent residents on P.E.I., there were just 125 whose highest educational certificate was in the trades. That's fewer than one in 40.

Those non-permanent residents include recent arrivals seeking permanent residency in Canada as well as temporary foreign workers and students.

Among those nominated to immigrate to P.E.I. as permanent residents, even fewer had trades certificates.

According to a report from Island Investment Development Inc., the provincial agency responsible for immigration to P.E.I., the province nominated 1,421 people to come to the province. Of those, just 13 had a trades certificate, less than one per cent.

Among all Islanders in the workforce, about one in 15 listed a trades certification in the 2021 census.

Sanderson said the situation is not improving.

"Absolutely not," he said. "It's a discussion we've been having not only locally, regionally, but nationally as well — the low volume of skilled trades that have been coming into Canada."

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Why were they allowed to remain and in what way have they improved the economy in which they are allowed to occupy space?:

More than a third of a million foreign students were allowed to remain in Canada as permanent residents in the past three years, the Department of Immigration disclosed yesterday. The number coincided with the highest federal immigration quotas in Canadian history: “It is too much too fast.”

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Ottawa has put the country into a bind known as a“population trap.” That’s the conclusion of National Bank of Canada chief economist Stéfane Marion. A population trap is an unhappy state of affairs familiar to poor countries with very high birth rates. It’s unheard of in the developed world. Yet it’s what is happening in Canada today.

Canada’s population growth through immigration has been so high that it has outpaced the country’s savings, and its ability to invest in new capital stock. In plain English, the number of forks in the economic pie is growing faster than the pie, and faster than our capacity to invest in more ovens to bake more pie. The result is less pie per Canadian – declining GDP per capita, and declining living standards.

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Is this anything like the weapons that never managed to make it to Ukraine?:

Grants to Ukrainian war refugees will cost nearly a half billion, says a federal briefing note. To date 189,194 Ukrainians in Canada have applied for subsidies to temporarily resettle here: “It’s one thing to promise the money. It’s another thing for that money to hit Ukrainian bank accounts.”

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Where are you going to put these socially cohesive migrants, you Nazi cow?:

When the floor was opened for questions, however, CBC reporter Simon Dingley asked why the government had not lowered immigration levels following warnings two years ago that high levels could affect housing costs, and that construction had not kept pace with population growth. Freeland’s answer skirted the question.

“As a country, Canada is probably the country in the world which is the most welcoming of new Canadians,” she began. “That is a huge economic strength. It is a real driver of our country’s economic growth … at a time when all of the industrialized countries in the world are facing huge demographics challenges, we are extremely fortunate … that we have the social capacity to welcome immigrants.”

Freeland continued: “If we want to be a country that welcomes new Canadians — and I strongly believe that’s the right thing for all of us — we have to build more homes faster. And that’s one of the reasons I’m here. Our government is totally committed to getting more homes built for Canadians.”

 

The Liberals expect one thing and one thing only of these migrants - to one day vote Liberal.

Where they sleep, what they eat, where their children go to school is, in no way, relevant to them. 

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The bigger question is why are they even brought here:

The security screening the federal government has brought in for people applying to flee the Gaza Strip is facing criticism from both lawyers who feel its questions are too invasive and others who think it should dig even deeper.

 

Do we actually an October 7th here?