Rotten on every level:
According to an Abacus poll released in October, 72% of Canadians want lower immigration — a statistical supermajority that includes a majority of voters in all four major political parties and all age groups. A Leger poll released this September found that 66% of white Canadians — and 61% of non-white Canadians — feel this way. ...
It’s fair to say that Canada has had what I call mass immigration, or what might more politely be called a continuous and uninterrupted high inflow of immigrants, since Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s government departed from our historic “tap on, tap off” policy in 1990. Under then Immigration Minister Barbara McDougall, high immigration regardless of domestic economic conditions became the new norm — and has only gone up, up, up in the decades since!
It's been 34 years. How did the experiment work out? From 1967 onwards, Canada’s media age consistently increased, with this trend finally stopping in 2021. This year, the median age decreased very slightly to 40.3. The Statistics Canada document that reports this figure adds the very important caveat that even this slight downward trend is temporary “since population aging is unavoidable”.
That’s all that those 34 years of mass immigration accomplished for Canada’s age structure! If the Canadian people permit our political elite to continue this experiment for another 34 years, we can expect another exceedingly marginal median age decline — at the cost of further imploding our housing, healthcare, infrastructure, and social services.
Also:
Police say the group was spotted from the air crossing the border on foot near Emerson on Jan. 14.
Officers say some were not dressed for the freezing temperatures, and an ambulance was called to ensure their safety.
The six were from Jordan, Sudan, Chad and Mauritania.
They were put under arrest and transferred to the Canada Border Services Agency.
This Canada Border Services Agency:
Antony Vo, a 32-year-old Indiana man who fled to Canada to avoid a nine-month jail sentence last June is still being held at an immigration holding centre in Surrey, B.C. after his arrest in Whistler on Jan. 6. But Canadian lawyer Robert Tibbo said his client’s counsel in the U.S. all indicate that “yes, 100 per cent, he’s been pardoned.” ...
However, ahead of that hearing the CBSA sent a letter to the IRB last week stating “Vo was not on the list of individuals pardoned by the US President.”
“This has been verified with US government officials,” reads the letter supplied by Tibbo, who calls it spectacularly false.
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Of the 457,646 people in Canada's deportation pipeline, 29,730 failed to appear for their removal proceedings and cannot be located**
Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accommodate reception and meal distribution areas as well as a waiting room for up to 200 people at a time.In an e-mail, the Canada Border Services Agency says the planned processing centre is part of its contingency plans “in the event of an influx of asylum seekers.”The notice from Public Services and Procurement Canada says the building must be located within a 15-kilometre radius of the official border crossing area in St-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que., south of Montreal.The notice follows Ottawa’s $1.3-billion announcement in December to beef up border security in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to impose steep tariffs unless Canada reduces the flow of migrants and drugs across the border.
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The answer is "none", you troll:
Canada has a “limited capacity” to welcome people looking to resettle, the federal immigration minister said, as the country braces for a potential influx of migrants in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s border crackdown.
As part of a series of executive orders cracking down on immigration, this week Trump suspended America’s refugee resettlement program, leaving stranded thousands in war-torn countries across the globe who were approved to come to the United States.
Immigration Minister Marc Miller said the U.S. decision is “unfortunate” and Canada will continue to be there for people fleeing conflict, but there is a limit to how many it can support.
“Canada will continue to remain a humanitarian country. We have limited ability to welcome people in a proper way,” he told reporters before a Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa Friday.
We're all thinking it; let's say it out loud.
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Like Biden, Justin plans on being a petty, vindictive little sh-- before Carney takes over:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning a final wave of appointments to fill the 10 vacancies in the Senate before he retires in March, Radio-Canada has learned.
The move would allow him to leave a mark on Parliament for years to come, as these unelected legislators will be able to sit until the age of 75.
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Never send a "journalist" to do an economist's job:
Chrystia Freeland’s last budget as finance minister was rated by Canadians as “mediocre,” “unfocused” and “smoke and mirrors,” says in-house focus group research by the Department of Finance. Pollsters hired by the department said taxpayers, especially older Canadians, were upset by unchecked deficit spending: “Words used to describe the budget included ‘insufficient,’ ‘mediocre,’ ‘meh.'”
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Bribing Canadians with their own money will have to wait:
Cabinet’s promise of $250 pre-election cheques is dead, says Public Works Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Speaking as the Prime Minister’s “Québec lieutenant,” he said the $4.7 billion giveaway was now untimely: “We have concerns.”
Oh, do you?
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It’s that yes, our politicians really do believe voters have the memories of goldfish and are easily manipulated by political propaganda.
(Sidebar: but it's worked SO often.)
How else to explain Liberal leadership hopefuls Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould telling us the Trudeau government policies they were vigorously defending a couple of weeks ago were in fact bad for the country and they knew it all along?
How Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s signature national carbon tax, far from being the Holy Grail of fighting climate change, was in fact a failed public policy in need of reform. (Freeland)
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The federal Court Challenges Program yesterday said it funded Supreme Court intervenors in support of the carbon tax in the name of “human rights.” The Program refused to say which pro-tax advocacy group received a taxpayers’ grant to speak in favour of the federal tax on fuel: “We will not be making additional information available.”
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Canada has already been sold.
While the next steps and recommendations are unclear until the specific findings are revealed, the report comes amid two, potentially three, major electoral processes.
Voting in the Liberal leadership race will conclude on March 9 and the new leader — and by extension, prime minister — will be announced on the same day.
The Liberal leadership vote will be the first major party leadership race since the establishment of the foreign interference commission’s inquiry and has raised questions in recent weeks about whether the process could be vulnerable to foreign interference.
The new Liberal leader will become prime minister for as long as the party remains the government, and will lead the party into the next election.
Canada’s most populous province is also heading into an election soon. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that he will meet with the lieutenant-governor on Tuesday to trigger an election campaign beginning Wednesday, for a vote on Feb. 27.Experts have also speculated that Canada could be heading towards a spring federal election.
A federal campaign must happen no later than October.
Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said he’s looking forward to seeing the recommendations in the report.
“I’m told it’s an extremely comprehensive piece of work,” McGuinty told reporters Monday. “I hope we see a way forward pointed by the commissioner and her team on how we can make progress with a very, very difficult situation and a very difficult phenomena — one which the United States of America is (also) facing, which every western democracy is facing.”
Ahem:
The judge overseeing Canada’s Foreign Interference Commission of Inquiry has decided two people can give evidence in secret about how the People’s Republic of China “co-opts and leverages some Chinese Canadian community associations and politicians of Chinese origin.”
Justice Marie-Josee Hogue made the decision in a written ruling dated Wednesday now posted on the commission’s website.
Her ruling, obtained by Global News, grants two witnesses — “Person B and Person C” — the right to testify by secret affidavits that will not be disclosed to the public or inquiry participants.
Hogue also issued a simultaneous order to seal their affidavits from the public for 99 years, after commission materials are deposited at the National Archives of Canada when the inquiry ends.
Stick around for ninety-nine years.
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