Your Contempt-Ridden and Contemptible Government and You

Vote for them all you want.

They still hate you:

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Fraud in Canada’s refugee system is difficult to gauge but may be significant, says Immigration Minister Lena Diab’s department. A “meaningful proportion of claims” from illegal immigrants and other refugee claimants are ineligible, it said: “Indicators provide a broader picture of integrity pressures.”

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An insider report authored by a former director of policy at Immigration with the Canadian government has shown that, for nearly a decade, Canada let in 25,000 asylum seekers without any of them ever being properly vetted.

The report, by the Toronto-based C.D. Howe Institute, and authored by James Yousif, who is the former director of policy at Immigration, noted how the federal government “slashed all its usual controls to weed out fraudsters, human traffickers and terrorists” in letting these people into the nation.

When looked at in detail, some 24,599 people were allowed into Canada between 2019 and 2023, with none of them ever having an interview done by immigration officials at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB).

“A person from a country on the IRB’s Country List can enter Canada, make a claim for asylum, and receive a positive determination in the mail, without being asked a single question,” noted the report.

The report shows some 24 countries, mostly nations rife with crime and terrorism, as being places where the new so-called asylum seekers come from, including North Korea, Yemen, Venezuela, Eritrea, and Afghanistan.

In his report, Yousif noted how government officials cannot, and should not, take asylum seekers at their word, which is why in-person interviews are vital.

“Asylum claims cannot be presumed to be true. Fabricated narratives and forged documents are a real and persistent risk,” he wrote.

“In-person questioning is the primary means to test the truthfulness of each claim. A policy that accepts claims without questioning exposes Canada to fraud and may encourage misuse of the system.”

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National security nightmare.

- Canada is now the source of 80pc of the known watchlist terrorists interdicted in the USA the past three years now.

- More than 1000 known terrorists were captured on American soil from Canada residency/citizenship/origin the past three years.… https://t.co/zBoyFOrIeC

— David Knight Legg (@KnightLegg) February 25, 2026

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The Commons yesterday by a 198 to 134 vote rejected a Conservative motion to suspend free medical benefits for illegal immigrants. The vote followed pointed debate: “It is disgusting.”

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Cabinet yesterday gave Cuba an advance on $8 million in yearly foreign aid before the April 1 start of the budget year. Emergency shipments of Canadian petroleum products to ease fuel shortages were not considered, Foreign Minister Anita Anand told reporters: “Why aren’t you sending fuel?”

(Sidebar: more here.)

But Australia is ... to Canada:

Besides importing foreign oil, Eastern Canada now imported its first shipment of LNG from Australia.

Instead of building infrastructure domestically to be self sufficient, the self described environmentalists prefer imports from a tanker that traveled 25,750 km.

"Buy Canadian" pic.twitter.com/x4Hu8K0KbL

— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) February 25, 2026

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The only viable job market in the country:

The most recent labour force numbers published by Statistics Canada show that 4.6 million Canadians now work in the public sector, as compared to 13.8 million working in the private sector, and 2.7 million who are self-employed.

This means that public-sector workers – those working for government or a government-funded sector such as health care – now represent one quarter of all Canadians working as employees, and 21.8 per cent of all workers generally.

As first noted by economist Charles Lamman in an analysis for The Hub, this means that Canada’s public sector is approaching a size last seen just before Canada was plunged into fiscal crisis in 1994.

In the early 1990s, the size of Canada’s public sector briefly peaked just above 22 per cent of the workforce, before entering a period of rapid decline as the government of then Prime Minister Jean Chrétien dramatically slashed program spending to avoid default.

By 1999, these cuts had resulted in the public sector’s share of the job market dropping to a low of 18.6 per cent.

And the rising imbalance of the Canadian labour market becomes ever starker when considering that Canada has been hiring public-sector workers at highs not seen since the Second World War – all while private-sector hiring remains largely stagnant.

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Former prime minister Brian Mulroney personally petitioned the Liberal cabinet to approve full combat benefits for Canadian veterans of the Persian Gulf War, newly-disclosed Access To Information records show. Cabinet dismissed the appeal: “They must not now be forgotten.”