Extortion suspects have all claimed refugee status, Canada’s border agency says - "Canada’s plan to expel those behind B.C.’s extortion epidemic has hit a roadblock after every single suspect sent for a deportation hearing claimed refugee status. The foreign nationals were identified by B.C.’s Extortion Task Force, but once the Canada Border Services Agency began investigating them, all claimed to be refugees. As a result, deportations of the 14 suspects have been put on hold until the Immigration and Refugee Board decides whether they have legitimate cases for asylum... The immigration enforcement agency spokesperson said he would not comment further on the matter, and did not respond when asked if all were citizens of India... by making refugee claims, the suspects may have delayed their deportations for years, said Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland... Deportations are key to Canada’s effort to tackle the extortions that have been targeting members of the South Asian community, particularly in B.C.’s Lower Mainland and Brampton, Ont. The extortions of South Asian business owners, in particular home builders, also in the Alberta capital of Edmonton has led to several arrests and charges. Indian crime groups such as the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, which Canada listed as a terrorist group on Sept. 29, have been demanding exorbitant payoffs from business owners and others. After threatening victims by phone, gang leaders in India will then send local foot soldiers to conduct arsons and shootings to pressure them to pay up. Because the Indian government has allegedly used the Bishnoi gang to attack its political opponents in Canada, the issue has become intertwined with foreign interference and repression. In September, the B.C. government formed an extortion task force to tackle “organized-crime activity involved in extortion-related threats.” It is led by the RCMP and composed of police and immigration officers... three Canadian Sikh organizations will hold a town hall meeting in Surrey, B.C. to discuss Indian transnational repression and extortion, which they said had reached “crisis level.” “Families, businesses, and community members are facing intimidation, threats, and violence that no Canadian should ever experience,” the Sikh Federation, B.C. Gurdwara’s Council and World Sikh Organization of Canada said in a poster promoting the event. The RCMP warned in October 2024 that Indian government agents were involved in “serious criminal activity in Canada,” including extortion. Indian diplomatic and consular officials were allegedly involved. India has still not acknowledged its alleged role in violent crimes in Canada, nor has it publicly vowed to stop. But since taking office, Prime Minister Mark Carney has moved quickly to mend ties with India in the hope of securing a trade deal."
Casey Babb on X - "Published today, this shocking article details how active Hamas is in Canada. "About 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas have ties to Canada," including Canadian citizens who hold leadership roles in the organization, like operative and financier, Usama Ali. Others, like Syrian refugee and Winnipeg resident Omar Alkassab, serve as lower-level fundraisers for the terror group. Simply put, there are potentially hundreds of people living in Canada who are supporting terrorist organizations that are killing Canadian citizens and our allies. This is a disgrace."
Andy Lee on X - "My favourite part of this heartwarming Canadian immigration success story is the part where the top Hamas financial terror guy had *three* different Canadian passports that the United States had sanctioned back in 2022 and now we don’t know where he is"
cbcwatcher on X - "Another story CBC is conveniently ignoring "A close associate of Mark Carney and generous donor to the Liberal Party is working behind the scenes to prevent Ottawa from cracking down on cheap truck drivers, who are costing Canada billions of dollars and are implicated in a growing number of accidents." https://journaldemontreal.com/2025/12/09/cha"
Lyle Stewart on X - "Just learned this. Here in Calgary there is a trucking company that operates 176 trucks! Out of the 176 trucks, 160 of them are being driven by new Canadians! Why? The company gets huge subsidies for hiring them! Ridiculous! @PierrePoilievre @MichelleRempel"
To combat hate in Canada, South Asians will have to move past their own divisions - The Globe and Mail - "The othering of brown people is a serious problem in the West. But there’s another insidious issue at play in Canada: Many South Asians are stoking the flames of hatred against each other, too. Growing up, it was near impossible not to hear the tales illustrating the many ways that South Asians don’t get along with one another. The conversations about infamous regional, religious and everything-in-between rivalries are unavoidable: Pakistan vs. India, Bangladesh vs. Pakistan, Hindus vs. Muslims vs. Sikhs, and absolutely everything about the discriminatory caste systems. It didn’t matter that we were in a country thousands of kilometres away from the region: Our differences were not only brought over here, but re-enacted here, too. Today, we see some South Asians targeting and extorting our own small businesses. We see clashes between subgroups at our places of worship, including Hindu temples and Sikh gurdwaras; indeed, the World Sikh Organization of Canada‘s statement about last year’s attacks noted that anti-Sikh hate was coming from both right-wing hate groups and Indian nationalists. We hear hypocrisy from a generation of older immigrants disparaging international students, or dismissing their challenges as being far lighter than what they experienced back in their day... so many of our people prefer to find community only with those who are part of their specific tribe. And so instead of operating as one diaspora in solidarity, we often create fissures amongst ourselves... But for a community that prides itself on maintaining traditions, this conversation is the most difficult thing to start. Indeed, any mention of change in front of extended family instantly gets me dismissed as the “Westernized child” who’s strayed far from home."
It's okay, just blame white people
To combat hate in Canada, South Asians will have to move past their own divisions : r/canada - "My buddy I grew up with and have been friends with since second grade, his parents immigrated to Canada from India. Same as my family but my family came from the Caribbean. But whatever, they came over in the 70s (we're 90s kids), and did the typical embrace Canada and Canadian customs and all that jazz. The only reason they can't stand the new immigrants is because they come here and just want Canada to be India 2.0. like if you want Canada to be India so bad, just stay in India. That's what pisses off so many Indian people that come here to start over in a brand new country and leave all the bullshit behind. And that's also what pisses off other Canadians. Like you want to come to Canada? Fuck yeah, Canada is awesome. Nobody is asking you to abandon your culture, but fuck, at the same time you gotta embrace Canada. Yeah we're a melting pot and growing up in the GTA that was awesome - and especially living out in the Maritimes now I realize how much I learned about other cultures just from living somewhere where I just exposed to many different cultures vs. people who grew up here where it was predominantly white - but we're also Canadian and part of immigrating to another country is adopting that country as your own. Not forcing that country to adapt to you."
Damn old immigrants pulling up the ladder behind them! Why do old immigrants hate new immigrants? This must be a status thing: they will never be equal to white people, so they gain social status by discriminating against new immigrants. Sad.
Dei Civitas on X - "In the Parliament of "Canada", a third world person talks about things in Sri Lanka. Then another third world person, who for some reason has been made a Cabinet Minister, holds forth about how he and the other third world people will send Canadian tax payer money to the third world. This is exactly how Trudeau and Carney intend Canada to work."
wastedcanadian on X - "Canadians are being discriminated against at the food bank 🇨🇦"
Man who killed Amnesty International worker found not criminally responsible - "A man has been found not criminally responsible due to his mental disorder for killing an Amnesty International worker and volunteer who had been helping him settle in Ottawa in 2023. Superior Court Justice Anne London-Weinstein issued her decision last week. London-Weinstein told court that Ahmed Ismail, 46, suffers from schizophrenia, resulting in psychosis and paranoid delusions. She ruled Ismail was not criminally responsible (NCR) at the time of the killing because his mental illness rendered him incapable of knowing his actions were wrong... The victim's twin brother Ted Bryant, who lives in Australia, said they "had a bond only twins can truly understand," and said he struggles to understand how such violence could have happened "to such a gentle, kind and lovable person." The Bryant family has been pacifist dating back generations to the Napoleonic wars and "instinctively avoided conflict," Ted Bryant said. "Will wouldn't hurt a fly," Ted Bryant said, adding that he found his brother's killing "inconceivable." Ted Byrant's wife Diane Bryant said she's "truly puzzled that this quiet, gentle man was able to provoke anger so great that he was viciously attacked and subsequently stabbed and murdered. I cannot imagine or let myself think of how frightened he must have been, how much pain he must have suffered, and how desperate he must have been to get away. "How can we be sure that you won't hurt anybody else?" she asked Ismail via video link from Australia. "How can anybody be sure they're safe around you?""
Man who killed Amnesty International worker found not criminally responsible : r/OttawaNewsPulse - "The irony, of course, is that Bryant and his brethren spent the last decades ardently supporting the import of immigrants and refugees like this guy into our country. They probably also were delighted when the government removed the need to get a medical certificate before you could come here. And Amnesty International has been completely opposed to deporting refugees for any reason whatsoever. The guy who killed Bryant was almost certainly a refugee. He should be deported. Canada should not be responsible for medicating and supervising this guy for the rest of his life."
Mocking others for voting for leopards eating people's faces is only good when it pushes the left wing agenda
Why Canadian bosses love hiring foreign workers - "“Temporary foreign workers work longer hours, are less absent and are less likely to be laid off than domestic workers,” say the professors of economics, Pierre Brochu, Till Gross and Christopher Worswick, in their peer-reviewed analysis Foreign workers put out more effort for lower earnings than domestic employees, the scholars found. One big reason they’ll grind away for less is that most come from countries with extremely low wages. A London School of Economics study found temporary migrants from the 11 largest developing countries — such as India, the Philippines and Mexico — can earn more than 400 per cent higher wages than in their country of origin by snagging even a low-skill job in North America... “We identify the unintended consequences of a TFW (temporary foreign worker) program: to lower wages and employment for domestic workers.” Even though Canada isn’t the only Western country opening its borders wider to guest workers, the Liberals have done so with more gusto than almost anywhere else. The proportion of foreign workers in Canada has tripled since the Liberals were first elected. Temporary residents now account for 7.1 per cent of the population, compared with 2.3 per cent in 2013. Their proportion is highest in B.C. — at 9.1 per cent. Even though the TFW program draws most media coverage, it accounts for only a small portion of the country’s guest workers. Most are in Canada under the little-known International Mobility Program (IMP), or here as international students, most of whom are allowed to hold jobs in Canada for at least three years after they graduate... Canadians’ standard of living isn’t significantly rising in large part because companies are relying heavily on guest workers, says David Williams of the Business Council of B.C. The OECD, a club of 37 mostly rich nations, projects that Canada will have the lowest growth in GDP per capita over the next four decades, he said. That happens when bosses rely on paying low wages to offshore workers, rather than innovating and increasing productivity. University of Waterloo labour economist Mikal Skuterud, Ontario analyst Ben Rabidoux and Pierre Fortin, past-president of the Canadian Economics Association, are among the many who ring alarm bells when corporations and lobby groups like the Century Initiative, not to mention politicians, claim the country faces labour shortages — when government statistics make clear that’s not the case. What’s worse, bad actors often take advantage of Ottawa’s openness to low-skill guest workers. Even Ottawa has admitted some employers exploit labourers. “Particularly under Justin Trudeau’s leadership, Canadian companies found it easier and more convenient to hire foreign workers since they were a cheap, obedient labour pool eager to work under terms and conditions set by their employers,” said Shinder Purewal, a political scientist at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. “For companies such as Canadian Tire (which has been fined for mistreating offshore hires) foreign workers are often viewed as affordable and dependable labour, who are less likely to demand or advocate for the same labour standards expected by Canadian workers.” Too many bosses have engaged in criminal activity, Purewal said. As reported by Postmedia News and other media outlets, such employers arrange for would-be migrants to pay them tens of thousands of dollars to fill out a fake labour market impact assessment (LMIA), which the employer uses to convince immigration officials that a suitable domestic worker isn’t available. Many migrants go along with the subterfuge because “LMIA has become a ticket for low-skill temporary workers to seek permanent residency,” said Purewal, speaking of the 528,000 permanent resident spots that Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to make available each year. The LMIA program for low-skilled workers had become so abused, Purewal said, that Ottawa cancelled it in March for regions with unemployment rates above six per cent... The way forward, Skuterud said, is for Ottawa to stop tying migration policy so closely to temporary fluctuations in the labour market — and to start ignoring the often-exaggerated claims of shortages made by some companies and lobby groups. Guest worker programs need more transparency, plus a renewed focus on skilled labour, Skuterud said. He recommends phasing out “low-skill streams, including in agriculture and caregiving, over three to five years.” It might sound dull, but Skuterud is right in saying Ottawa’s migration policies need to be steady, predictable, very long-term — and focused on the needs of all Canadians. “This horizon gives viable businesses time to make productivity-enhancing training and technological investments. (That will) reduce reliance on low-wage foreign labour, while supporting wage growth and productivity gains in the domestic workforce.”"
Weird. We're told that immigration doesn't depress wages, and that open borders boosts productivity. We're also told that businesses don't invest because everyone buys housing instead and the cure is socialism
When leaders complain about 'labour shortages,' be suspicious | Vancouver Sun - "Paradoxically, Fortin said, one impact of bringing in record numbers of people, particularly low-wage temporary workers, is that it contributes to new labour shortages. “The ‘common sense’ inference that more immigration must lessen labour shortages in the economy as a whole is wrong. What works for a single employer does not necessarily hold for the economy as a whole,” Fortin said. “There is no evidence that more immigration has reduced economywide labour shortages. In fact, it likely has made them more severe.” That’s because a growing population leads to more consumers, which requires businesses to then hire more people to provide more goods and services, whether sofas, fast food or housing... “immigration is not a private good, but a global and transformative phenomenon. There is a need for a better balance in sharing its costs and benefits.” High immigration rates, he says, have economic, social, cultural and humanitarian implications. “Society is morally obligated to welcome and integrate all immigrants in the most humane manner. This requires much time and money. (It can) provoke serious economic disequilibria in sectors that must absorb the increase in demand, such as construction, housing, health, education and social services.” A cultural problem famously pinpointed by Harvard sociologist Robert Putman in 2017 can also be exacerbated. That is, says Fortin, that the pace of immigration can happen so fast that it leads ethnic groups to “hunker down” into enclaves, reducing society-wide co-operation and increasing mistrust."
Highly skilled immigrants are twice as likely to leave Canada, report shows - "New immigrants are leaving Canada “at near-record rates, with highly educated and highly skilled immigrants leaving Canada at twice the rate of those with less education and lower skills,” a new report by the Institute of Canadian Citizenship and the Conference Board of Canada found... The likelihood of leaving Canada goes up as the level of education increases... Some of the next decade’s most “in-demand” occupations were among those where highly skilled immigrants were most likely to leave Canada within 25 years... Canada’s health care sector, which has suffered a lack of personnel in recent years, was also cited as one where highly skilled immigrants have a high likelihood of leaving within 25 years... Declining or stagnating incomes were cited as the key cause behind highly skilled immigrants choosing to leave Canada."
Time to import more minimum wage retail workers and their dependents to avoid a shrinking population, then "tax the 'rich'" to pay for more social benefits, while promoting degrowth
Opinion: Liberal immigration plan needs more clarity - "The annual headline target of 380,000 new permanent residents (PRs) is misleading. It doesn’t count new “ one-time initiatives ” over the next two years to give permanent residency to another 115,000 protected persons and 33,000 temporary workers already living in Canada. It’s a reclassification that gives twice. Subtracting them from the stock of non-permanent residents (NPRs) helps Ottawa meet its target of reducing the NPR share of the population to below five per cent by 2027. And not adding them to the target for PRs makes it look like the admission of new permanent immigrants over the next two years is more moderate than it actually is. But there’s an obvious transparency gap. It’s as if they’ve disappeared — removed from one column but not added to the other... Lack of transparency about how 33,000 temporary workers will get permanent residency is more troubling. The stated criteria — “strong roots” and “paying taxes” — are too vague. The 33,000 should be chosen by merit-based selection under Express Entry, prioritizing candidates with high human capital and language proficiency. Without clear criteria , what’s bound to be arbitrary selection will undermine public confidence... As the unemployment rate among core-aged temporary workers (ages 25–54) nears double digits — almost twice that for Canadian-born workers — continued high levels of temporary immigration become more of a problem. The 49 per cent reduction in new international student admissions (from 305,900 in 2025 to 155,000 in 2026) that’s also in the plan could have its own unintended consequences . The government is right to rein in temporary residency, but a straight cap penalizes high-quality universities and colleges while failing to target the real problem: predatory practices and weak programs. Finally, the sharp cut to business immigration is a concern at a time when Canada urgently needs more job creators and capital investment. This program, which falls under the broader economic immigration category, targets entrepreneurs and investors who can build businesses. Yet only 500 permanent residents are being admitted through it next year, down from 2,000 this year."
New 28-storey Broadway rental tower pivots to Indigenous-only medical care hotel : r/ilovebc - "As someone who had to wait 8hrs at a primary care clinic hoping for an opening two cities away with a 4 month old baby with a serious fever and breathing problems, I was elated to learn about a refugee only clinic near by me that my family cannot access: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Service-at-Location/C/A/new-canadian-clinic---burnaby For context, we tried emergency first and were told primary care clinic was our best chance as emergency would be a longer wait."
Two indian men being drunk and creepy. Redditors: No no thats not the issue. Anti-Indian racism in Canada is the issue. : r/CanadianConservative - "The top comment literally deflects the behavior by saying it's common to have drunk people try to grope you if you have floor tickets to a concert. For a sub that's supposed to preach compassion, they sure like to victim blame. Maybe the next top comment should point out what OP was wearing that night that made the behavior justified lol."
Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 on X - "🚨BREAKING - THE GOVERNMENT OF BC IS USING $1B OF TAXPAYERS MONEY to build housing for INTERNATIONAL students whove never paid ANY TAX in Canada. (Also, the 2 One BC MLAs are kickin ass) government minister responds with: "Diversity is our strength""
Immigrant who caused deadly crash on QEW wins chance to stay in Canada - "A Pakistani immigrant ordered deported 17 months ago for causing a deadly five-vehicle crash on a major highway in Mississauga, Ont., and then fleeing the scene, has won another chance to stay in Canada. The “tragic” Jan. 27, 2018, crash on the Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) resulted “in the death of one person and severe injuries to various other individuals,” according to a recent Federal Court decision. Yasir Baig “fled the scene of the accident but surrendered to the police” a dozen days later... According to the judge who sentenced him, Baig got angry that night because someone flashed their high beams at him and honked. That caused a chain reaction involving five vehicles, Superior Court Justice Bruce Durno said in June 2023... Seven people were rushed to hospital from the crash scene, including two women who suffered critical injuries. One of the women, Nicole Turcotte, 22, of Niagara Falls, later died in hospital."
IRCC on X - "Thinking about moving to Canada? Did you know Canada has public health care? Learn how it works, who can get it and what services are covered. Get the details and helpful tips:"
HoCStaffer on X - "Canadians: We need more docs & nurses.
Liberals: Everyone come get free healthcare!
Insane!"
Thousands of foreigners’ criminal convictions forgiven by Ottawa over 11-year span, raising transparency concerns - The Globe and Mail - "More than 17,500 foreigners have had their criminal convictions forgiven by the Immigration Department over the past 11 years, removing a bar to coming to Canada, federal government figures show. The disclosure has raised transparency concerns about the type of offences they committed... IRCC has not, however, released a breakdown of the kind of criminal offences that were forgiven... people with criminal convictions facing deportation from the United States may seek to come to Canada."
Left wingers think removing illegal immigrants from the US who have committed crimes is fascism, so good luck with that
Jamie Sarkonak: Committing a crime should guarantee deportation - " When he was about 22, a Jamaican national and Canadian permanent resident impregnated his 13-year-old stepsister. She said he forced himself onto her, he said he didn’t remember; you be the judge. She had a child. This happened in 2007, and in 2008 he was convicted of sexual interference and sentenced to five-and-a-half months. That should have been the end of his time here — his crime was considered “serious criminality,” and this rendered him legally inadmissible to Canada. But officials cancelled his deportation to give him another chance. He went on to commit more crimes, including domestic violence, and in 2018 he was still fighting before the courts. By then, he had three Canadian children — the oldest being the one conceived through criminal means — and he used them to argue against being returned to Jamaica. He lost his last appeal, but whether he’s still here, we don’t know. He could have not shown up to his flight and dropped off the radar. The Canada Border Services Agency’s position is that a criminal’s deportation status is private information, even though such information should be as public as a court docket... Canada only considers crimes over a certain threshold — those with a maximum of 10 years or greater, or cases where the individual’s sentence was over six months — to count as “serious criminality” warranting possible deportation of a permanent resident. This is one reason that immigration discounts are used in Canadian law: in cases where doing so will make a difference, judges will sometimes sentence a permanent resident below six months to help keep the offender here. When courts do sentence foreign offenders to the point of reaching “serious criminality,” it renders the individual in question legally inadmissible to Canada. Inadmissible status is generally followed by a removal order, which should lead to actual deportation. But that process can be interrupted. One route involves convincing a judge to pause the order and put the offender on probation of sorts, giving them time to prove their rehabilitation and worthiness to Canadian society... In June immigration appeal adjudicator Harold Shepherd (appointed in 2022) paused the deportation of Fiji national Ricky Ravikash Lal, 43, whose long criminal record runs from 2006 to 2020 and includes obstructing police, impaired driving, ignoring court orders, mischief over $5,000 and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose. Though Lal’s probability of rehabilitation was considered low, and though he “has not demonstrated a settled desire to overcome his issues and rehabilitate himself to the extent that he no longer poses a risk to the public or of reoffending,” the adjudicator decided to give him another three years here to turn things around. In August, immigration appeal adjudicator Catherine Gaudet (appointed 2022) paused the deportation of Trinidad and Tobago national Avinash Ryan Persaud, 22, who has been convicted of robbery 13 times since 2018. During these proceedings, he was charged with another 30 counts involving drugs and weapons. What remorse he has shown has been superficial. But the adjudicator believed in the faint hope that mental health treatment, which Persaud had never seriously pursued, could turn his life around. And earlier in November, 42-year-old Philippine national Jaques Delgado Lazaro, who was convicted of “several criminal offences” in 2021 and was in the news for ramming a Toronto police cruiser while breaching bail in 2023, was fortunate enough to have his deportation paused by Federal Court Justice John Norris... Under the current system, the mental health of a foreign perpetual criminal is more important than the physical safety of Canadians and the preservation of an ordered, high-trust society."
Somali woman in polygamous marriage lied to get into Canada - "A Somali woman barred from Canada for five years for giving false names and birth dates for herself and her two children while applying for refugee status here, dodging the fact that she had entered into a polygamous marriage with a Canadian-Somali man, has won another chance at staying in this country. Fadumo Yusuf Mohamed Abdille came to Canada in 2012 and was granted refugee status, but that was vacated in 2023 due to misrepresentation on her refugee claim, according to a recent Federal Court decision out of Toronto."
Vancouver/Surrey racial arrest rates, what do you think? : r/ilovebc - "A lot of people probably have no idea this exists, but a few years ago we saw the most detailed report on policing in the history of this country come out. The numbers are probably much worse than you can imagine, just wondering what you all think.... I think the numbers are pretty damning and state what a lot of people already know. Immigration from Africa & the Middle East has resulted in a very dramatic increase in crime, very similarly seen in Europe. Personally I think that the government should force all police departments to collect and release similar data."
The stats: Indigenous people are the least hospitable to mass immigration. by @Bratt_world(Brattani) | Twitter Thread Reader - "The stats: Indigenous people are the least hospitable to mass immigration.
CBC: that’s xenophobic
My favourite part is where cockring tries to imply that second generation conseBrianna Lyman on X: "This girl justifies her actions because “As a Mexican-American” she felt obligated to help illegal aliens Her allegiance isn’t with America it’s with a bunch of foreigners Mass migration is national suicide There is no room for a hyphenated American in America" / Xrvative south Asians from Brampton and Surrey are also xenophobic and racist because they too are against mass immigration"
Jury acquits teen in fatal Toronto school shooting (aka "Jury acquits teen who claimed self-defence in fatal Toronto school shooting, saying he carried gun because his neighbourhood was ‘like Iraq’")
If parts of Toronto are like Iraq, why is Canada endangering asylum seekers by accepting their claims?
Canada Proud on X - "#REPORT: New data shows that a quarter of immigrants brought to Canada to fill nursing quotas in response to an ongoing labour shortage were never hired for any nursing positions."
Proof you need to bring in even more and that if you're against mass migration you want healthcare to collapse so conservatives can privatise it
