Indian gangs are terrorising Canada - "South Asian communities across Canada are being terrorised by gangs – and city officials in Surrey, BC are calling on the federal government to declare a national state of emergency. The crimes follow a distinctive pattern. South Asian gangs demand money from members of their own communities. Intimidation, threats and even shootings follow. Gang members drive to someone’s home or business, and video themselves shooting at buildings and vehicles. They then post the recording online or send it to the target, with threats of worse to come if payment is not made. The city of Surrey has seen a drastic uptick in these crimes, with police reporting 35 extortion attempts since the beginning of January. But the problem is perhaps even more severe in Brampton, Ontario with regional police reporting nearly 500 extortion cases each year since 2023. Edmonton, and more recently Calgary, have had their share as well. Dharmjit Mand in Ontario says he was contacted in the autumn of 2025 via WhatsApp and told he had been chosen to ‘donate’ $2 million to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, a transnational criminal organisation that is based in India but has reportedly put down deep roots in Canada. Mand blocked the number and told the police. But in late November, he got a call from another number with a threat: ‘We’re going to show you what we can do.’ The next night, a car drove by Mand’s farmhouse and seven shots were fired out the window. A video of the shooting was posted online with threats against Mand, accusing him of being a drug dealer. Police told Mand to move, so he went to live with his brother – only to have his brother’s house shot at a couple of weeks later. Mand said he now intends to move his family to the US... Critics of current bail legislation point out that police are effectively forced to carry out a catch and release programme, arresting violent offenders only to see them back on the streets 24 hours later, pending an often distant court date. And when that day comes, the Canadian judiciary’s focus on reintegration into the community, combined with ‘identity-based justice,’ mean that sentences are often light and parole easily earned. Gangs are also expert at exploiting the weaknesses in Canadian immigration policy. Many of their members are present in Canada illegally, often on expired student visas. Some were already known criminals in their home countries, who somehow escaped proper vetting on entry. Last December, at least 14 suspects avoided deportation by claiming refugee status, buying themselves years of time in Canada, along with subsidised health care and social programmes, according to Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland. They now cannot be deported until the Refugee Protection Division rules on the merit of their claims – with a multi-year backlog of refugee cases to be processed ahead of them. Back in Surrey, authorities worry that people aren’t reporting incidents of extortion out of fear. Some are perhaps even paying the money demanded. Locals say there is a strong sense that police are unable to protect the public effectively. Some are calling for stronger ‘castle’ laws in Canada so they can arm themselves in self-defence. Police have called for Surrey residents to abide by the law, concerned that the situation may descend into vigilantism. One extortion victim was reportedly investigated after allegedly responding to a drive-by shooting by firing back."
Time for even more restrictions on legal gun owners!
RCMP head of B.C. Extortion Task Force sorry for challenging term ‘crisis’ - "Despite dozens of new extortion threats and eight extortion-related shootings this year, the B.C. RCMP says progress is being made to curb extortion violence and to hold those responsible accountable... Brewer said that the extortion-related cases, most of them in Surrey, are not a crisis. “There’s not a crisis,” he said. “What’s happening out there with drug overdoses — that’s a crisis, people are dying. This [threat of extortion] is a threat to public safety, absolutely, and I take it very seriously.” On Wednesday, Brewer doubled down on that message. “When I say, yes, is it important to people? Yes. Do people feel scared? Do individuals believe it’s a crisis? Absolutely. Are we taking it extremely seriously? Yes. “Are we putting all the resources we can towards it? Absolutely are. But my point being, if we just call everything a crisis, right, I have to focus on those that are important. Extortions are a primary focus for us in policing right now, particularly in the Lower Mainland, but across the country.” Surrey journalist Gurpreet Singh Sahota said that at first, he thought Brewer was going to say something else. “If it’s not a crisis then what is the crisis?” he said. “People are getting shot in the shoulder, people get shot in the jaw and we don’t know even if the killings are related to these extortion-related things. Then what the crisis is? What we call the crisis if it’s not the crisis.” Sahota said he thought Brewer’s comments showed the mindset of the B.C. RCMP — that they don’t think this is a crisis situation. “Honestly, we are here, Punjabis here from the last 125 years. And Canada is here for 159 years. We as a community build Canada and somehow, we feel today that we are not part of it, that we’re not part of mainstream,” he added. “Still, we’re immigrants.” “And if the same thing happens to a non-Punjabi, maybe then it will be a crisis.” B.C. Premier David Eby said on Wednesday that if Brewer did not think the situation was a “crisis,” then he needed to step aside. However, on Wednesday afternoon, Brewer issued a statement saying he wanted to apologize for challenging the term “crisis” as it has now become the focus of the issue and has called into question the RCMP’s commitment to addressing extortions in the province... Surrey radio host and former MLA Jinny Sims called the task force update on Tuesday “superficial.” She said that what she sees in Surrey does not feel like Canada anymore."
Whatever you say will be racist and xenophobic. You can't win
Canada is losing control of a major city to gangsters - "In September, the federal government declared that the Lawrence Bishnoi gang — an organized crime group from India that has been linked to many of the alleged extortions — would henceforth be a designated terror entity. Last week, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said he had deputized two RCMP helicopters to help stem the crisis. And in late January, Surrey City Council called for their community to be placed under a state of emergency. But the extortion crisis is underlain by two problems that are worsening crime almost everywhere else in Canada. First, foreign criminals have been able to exploit a porous and overwhelmed Canadian immigration system. Second, a justice system is proving chronically unable to send these foreign criminals home or even keep them in jail. The result is that Surrey, B.C. is now plagued by threats, shootings and arsons by criminals predominantly targeting the South Asian community... starting just after New Years, the attacks massively accelerated. Almost every day this year has seen Surrey Police announce some new shooting, threat or arson attack believed to be perpetrated by extortionists... In January alone, Surrey Police tracked 36 separate extortion attacks. And those are just the ones being reported to the police. In January, a police investigator told independent journalist Sam Cooper that extortion targets, many of whom are often repeat victims, were losing faith in Canadian law enforcement. “I’m hearing of people living in hotels and they’re footing the bill for themselves, or they’ve left the country,” he said. Or, in some cases, they’re reportedly shooting back. Last month, Surrey Police announced that homeowners believed to have fired at alleged extortionists were under investigation for “vigilantism.” The dual problems of lax immigration and a toothless criminal justice system were probably best highlighted in December, when Surrey Police arrested 15 Indian nationals suspected of extortion-related crimes, only for all 15 to immediately claim status as refugees. Such an obvious exploitation of Canada’s asylum system drew public condemnation from all three levels of government, with Eby calling the whole thing “ludicrous.” But it worked; even as Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada vowed in a recent media statement that asylum claims would not shield criminals from punishment, the claims did indeed throw a wrench into Canada’s normal removal procedures for accused criminals. Reversing such “misuse of the system,” said IRCC, would require an Act of Parliament. Prior extortion arrests have revealed suspects who entered the country on student visas, capitalizing on an unprecedented surge of temporary migration into Canada that often left immigration officials unable to perform even basic screening. Vikram Sharma, an Indian national accused of two Bishnoi Gang extortion attacks, was one of hundreds of thousands to enter Canada on a student visa in 2022. That was the same year that the number of study permit holders in Canada would soar to a record-breaking 807,000. Meanwhile, last month, Crown prosecutors revealed the details of an accused double murderer alleged to have killed a Guelph, Ont., couple in a robbery “less than a month” after arriving in Canada as a student. Two of the alleged hitmen accused of carrying out the 2023 assassination of Sikh nationalist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. had similarly entered Canada on student visas that the suspects themselves would boast had been “obtained in a few days.” All the while, in a law enforcement pattern that is now routine in every corner of Canada, arrested suspects are usually given bail. That was the general theme of a small anti-extortion protest in Surrey this week, with protest organizer Rasinder Kaur telling the CBC “the fear in our community is because (perpetrators) are not getting punished.”"
Harman Bhangu on X - "The irony is hard to miss. While Mark Carney praises Canada’s international student program last week, Lovebir Singh was here on a student visa According to federal records, Lovebir Singh who held that visa is believed to have fired shots into a Surrey home after a $500,000 extortion threat. Canadians are supposed to believe this is just an isolated failure of the system. People in British Columbia are not buying that anymore Let’s start with the obvious: we are glad he is gone. The Canada Border Services Agency removed him from the country and deported him. Let me be clear, that is exactly what should happen to criminals that are not of this country tied to violent criminal activity Now investigators need to go much further. Every associate, accomplice, sponsor, recruiter, and anyone connected to the school program that brought him here should be investigated. These operations do not appear out of nowhere. Someone sponsored him, someone enrolled him, someone helped him get settled, and someone connected him to the people behind this extortion network And there is a bigger question Ottawa needs to answer: are criminal networks exploiting the international student visa system as a doorway into Canada? Because if someone can arrive on a study permit and end up allegedly participating in an extortion shooting months later, something in the system is clearly being abused @MichelleRempel"
Editorial: Stop crying 'racism' to kill refugee reforms - "Canada’s immigration, refugee and asylum system has long been broken, and to claim any questioning of it is based on racism, as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet ministers often do when they are challenged by the Conservatives, is absurd.
Among the failings:
The federal government has lost track of 30,000 individuals scheduled for deportation, some convicted of serious offences.
Almost nine in 10 rejected asylum seekers in Canada since 2020 are still in Canada — 55,320 out of 63,436, or 87%. Of the smaller group of rejected asylum seekers who have already gone through the refugee appeal process since 2020, more than eight in 10 are still in Canada — 26,153 out of 31,631 or 83%. The current backlog of refugee claims is nearly 300,000. Because of that, tens of thousands of refugee applications have been approved solely on the basis of paperwork, without an oral hearing. Since it typically takes two years or longer to decide a claim, claimants need to be provided with the necessities of life...
Even the Liberals admit the system needs fixing and have introduced various half-measures to do so, making their accusations against the Conservatives even more bizarre. In fact, many of these problems originated with a 1985 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada extending Charter protection to non-citizens — basically, to almost everyone who arrives here, regardless of how they got here — which Canadian governments of all stripes have failed to address."
AITAH for explaining the consequences of his actions to my son? : r/AITAH - "My family lives in Canada. This is important. My kid was being bullied at school. He is a big kid and I have always told him to resolve his problems with words. I've told him to report bullying to teachers, and if they don't listen to tell the principal. Also to tell me and his mom so we can follow up. My son's after school program is a taekwondo class. Also important. He's been in taekwondo since he was in kindergarten. He also plays hockey. There are a group of kids at his school that have been assholes to my kid and his friends. My kid did the right thing and told the teacher monitoring recess. She told him that the kids were new to Canada and that they didn't know how to fit in yet. He went to the principal and got told pretty much the same thing. So he told his mom. She wanted to go confront the parents and she likely would have ended up in custody. She's Irish. Like real Irish from Ireland not Marky Mark Irish. I told her I would take care of it. I made an appointment to talk to the principal and teacher along with my son. I went into the meeting with a simple goal. To stop the bullying. The principal and teacher both tried the same excuse on me. That these kids were newcomers and they weren't fully aware of how Canada was different from their home country and what they saw on American TV. I asked what was being done to stop it. They said they had talked to the boys. I asked if the parents had been brought in and talked to. He said no. Okay. So I turned to my kid and I explained that in Canada kids under twelve years old CANNOT be charged with a crime. In fact they can't even be arrested. Worst case scenario if anything happened he might have to do some community service. The principal and teacher went crazy telling me that I can't tell him that. I asked them if I was lying? They both shut up. I pointed to them and told my kid to remember that they didn't say I was wrong. I told him to tell me in a week if he was still being bullied. My understanding is that all the bullies parents were called in and told to control their children. The bullies were also given library detention instead of recess for a month. I'm satisfied with the result but the teacher and principal seemed upset. My wife thinks I should have given him the information privately."
Canadians now spending $1 billion per year to cover health-care costs of refugee claimants - "Paying the health-care premiums of refugee claimants will cost Canadians a record $1 billion this year, with some of the beneficiaries continuing to receive free health care despite their claims having already been rejected. That’s according to a new analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it’s just one of several ballooning costs wrought by the unprecedented number of foreign nationals currently living in Canada by virtue of a claim of refugee status. The Interim Federal Health Program, which offers premium health benefits to asylum claimants, is soon set to hit $1 billion in annual costs for the first time... This is a five-fold increase from just six years ago, when the program was costing $211 million per year. The analysis also projects that costs are expected to surge for the foreseeable future, with the annual budget likely to hit $1.5 billion as early as 2029. All told, between now and 2030, Canadians are on track to spend $6.2 billion on health care for refugees or refugee claimants... the Interim Federal Health Program can be accessed even by asylum claimants who have had their case rejected. It also offers a higher level of care than that enjoyed by the average Canadian citizen. In addition to hospital care and surgical care, the IFHP also covers dental care, vision care, pharmacare and other services not typically covered by public health plans... As of the most recent count by the Immigration and Refugee Board, there were 299,614 foreign nationals in Canada waiting for their refugee claim to be reviewed. This is larger than the entire population of either Saskatoon, Sask., or Windsor, Ont. It’s also a more than an 1,800 per cent increase from the 16,058 who were in the country when the Trudeau Liberals first took power in 2015. The figure includes tens of thousands of illegal border-crossers who entered the United States on tourist visas before entering Canada illegally to make a refugee claim. It also includes a recent spike in foreign nationals who entered Canada on student visas, but claimed refugee status as soon as their visas expired. As asylum claimants are often allowed immediate access to government benefits, the spike has incurred several uncontrolled surges in federal spending. Another example is the Interim Housing Assistance Program, which pays the shelter costs and even food bills of asylum claimants. In 2024, Conservative MP Lianne Rood published disclosures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada finding that some asylum claimants were receiving room and board benefits in excess of $200 per day. While the benefits were not universal among asylum claimants, those accepted to receive food and shelter supports were getting the equivalent of $84 per day for meals and $140 per day for hotel rooms. And this was in addition to a whole latticework of additional federal payouts to asylum seekers, including one that gave $3,000 cash payouts to Gazans entering Canada... The Carney government recently announced reforms to the Interim Federal Health Program intended to curb its ballooning cost — although, the coverage still remains far more generous than that enjoyed by the average Canadian. Starting May 1, asylum claimants will have to pay $4 per prescription instead of nothing, and if they access “supplemental health products” such as counselling or dental care, they will have to cover 30 per cent of the bill themselves."
Damn Conservative governments trying to destroy Canadian Healthcare!
Canada has a hidden asylum-policy problem - The Globe and Mail
Howard Anglin on X - "This report into the breakdown of the Canadian refugee system by the former director of policy at IRCC and a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada should be a major scandal. In a sane country, heads would roll, starting with the ministers who oversaw this catastrophe. Key takeaways: as the Liberal's lax border and asylum policy led to a flood of claims, the agency that hears the claims adopted a short-cut to deal with the volume: it effectively rubber stamped tens of thousands of applications without a hearing to assess their credibility. As the author notes, global asylum flows are sensitive to approval rates in different countries, and the incredibly high approval rate in Canada (80% compared to European countries with approval rates half that), means we have become a magnet for bogus asylum claims -- which are then waived in without a hearing, leading to more claims. Rinse and repeat. It's a disaster will ripple through our country for generations, as the bogus claimants from this cohort are almost certainly here to stay. They and their families have defrauded their way into a permanent home here. The government let them do it, and is still doing nothing to stop it. A start would be to do retrospective quality checks to see how many claims were wrongly approved under this rubber-stamp policy, and if enough are identified to indicate a problem, to re-do them and remove protection for cases of fraud. But that would be an admission of failure by the government, and no government wants to admit it willfully turned a blind eye to mass fraud."
Adam Zivo on X - "When I got my Master of Public Policy at the Munk School (2018-2020), it was taboo to acknowledge that immigration fraud is a significant problem. I remember during one major lecture, I raised my hand and suggested that, if certain countries are associated with asylum fraud, then their applications should be subjected to additional scrutiny. The guest lecturer basically called this idea racist, and my conservative classmate (who was quieter about her beliefs) later remarked that this seemed to be the point where I had been “cancelled” by my classmates. I bring this up because I want people to understand the ideological culture that allowed our immigration system to crumble."
Elbows up!
Clearly, a former director of policy at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada doesn't know anything and is just a xenophobic far right extremist who has no "empathy"
The judge determined to dismantle Canada's immigration safeguards - "In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth activist for politicians to contend with.” She was an advocate of chain migration, a former member of the Ontario law society’s equity committee, a vocal critic of journalists and politicians, and once, she even tried to force the government to pay reparations to descendants of Chinese-Canadians impacted by the head tax (after losing one appeal in this process, her organization accused an appeal judge of racism; the complaint was tossed out). Ideally, she wouldn’t be in charge of waving migrants into the country from a judicial seat. Nevertheless, Go was made a Federal Court judge in 2021 and much of her job is playing immigration gatekeeper. The results are what you’d expect, and they’re not favourable to Canadians. Most recently, Go halted citizenship revocation proceedings against a pharmacist whose immigration application appeared to fail Canada’s residency requirement, and whose husband had ties to immigration fraud that involved faking Canadian residency. It was unfair to go after the pharmacist, Go wrote, because the immigration application was made and approved in the early 2000s, the investigation into its shadowy nature was made in 2014, and it was only in 2024 that the federal government officially decided to revoke citizenship. Indeed, that wasn’t the only time in recent history that Go has rewarded rule-breaking. In September, she paused the deportation order of a Mexican man who came to Canada in 2022 and didn’t report to Canadian border officers one day afterward, as was required. Despite this, he was still in the country three years later, fighting deportation and alleging cartel persecution. Notably, Go paused the deportation proceedings of an Indian man on the basis that his removal from Canada would prevent him from helping his Canadian wife (whom he married only weeks after meeting) cope with her ADHD. In December, Go paused the deportation proceedings of twoNigerians who each claimed asylum on the basis of bisexuality after their Canadian study permits expired. Asylum officials were skeptical; Go, less so. Even better was her decision in May to halt the deportation of a Nigerian who claimed asylum in Canada in November 2023, returned home the next month, and came back to Canada in September 2024 to make yet another claim on the basis of sexuality (he had a wife, but he claimed to have had a same-sex relationship two decades ago). His evidence was weak, his story had holes, and it was clear by his return that Nigeria wasn’t all that dangerous, hence his rejection by immigration officials. Go put a stop to that on the basis that officers didn’t properly explain why his claims weren’t credible. In May, Go also permitted a Nigerian family to remain in Canada as they continued their long fight against deportation. They came to Canada in 2018, claimed asylum, and were rejected; afterward, they failed their pre-removal risk assessment. They challenged that determination and lost, and then tried to stay by applying for permanent residency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. They failed on that ground, too. Go set aside the immigration officials’ decision to reject the family’s permanent residency application on the ground that the officer didn’t properly consider the best interests of the family’s two children — aged 18 and 16 — to remain in Canada. In this case, they weren’t even anchor babies; the fact the kids had been here for several years was enough in Go’s mind to greenlight the family’s abuse of the asylum system. She also paused the deportation proceedings of Hedjer Etti Becher of Chad, who claimed asylum on the basis of political persecution. That man claimed to be a political organizer of a persecuted group but later changed his story and said he was merely a member; he also failed to present any documentary evidence to support his claim, and, despite stating that he was forced into hiding with 17 of his “comrades,” he couldn’t name a single one. Immigration officials wanted to deport him accordingly, but Go got in the way. Interestingly, a man with a similar name appears to be interested in Canadian politics, as his Facebook cover photo depicts him beside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Similarly, Go intervened in the favour of two Sri Lankan men — one in 2022, another in 2024 — who tried to claim asylum in Canada and initially failed. Both fled to the United States initially and then crossed the northern border, an indication of country shopping, and told immigration officials that they were in danger due to being perceived as members of the Tamil Tigers. Immigration officials didn’t buy it, but Go seemed to. The first man appears to have succeeded: his name is listed as the director of P.K.Kobi Inc., a Canadian corporation based in Oshawa, Ont. And in March, Go extended the stay of a Somali asylum seeker who had lived in Sweden since 2007 under false pretenses. Nearly a decade later, she entered Canada using fraudulent means with her four kids. Immigration adjudicators eventually rejected her claim, but Go granted the woman’s application to have that rejection reviewed by a different decision-maker. Finally, in December, Go cancelled an immigration official’s denial of permanent residency to a 71-year-old grandmother from India on compassionate grounds, who had only come to Canada in 2019. While integration is unlikely and the cost to taxpayers and health-care capacity is certain, what mattered to Go was the woman’s ability to pass her culture on to her children. The matter has been returned to immigration officials."
Michelle Rempel Garner on X - "Here's where I moved the exact change that Premier Eby was asking for - preventing non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making bogus asylum claims. The Liberals didn't support it."
Meme - "r/CanadaMassImmigration
Happened at my work
I live in a pretty "white" town and work at Canadian Tire. Our new store manager is an Indian woman. I didn't think anything of it until a bunch of new workers started showing up. They're all Indian and half are related to her. They have no clue what they are doing and walk around the store all day doing nothing. Honestly saw this subreddit posted to X and thought I'd share. It's out of control."
"CANADAMASSIMMIGRATION: BANNED. This community has been banned. This community was banned for violating Reddit's rule against promoting hate."
