Geoff Russ: The data is in — fewer newcomers in Canada means lower rent - "The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) announced recently that advertised rents had fallen across major Canadian cities. The July 8 report projects that, compared to last year, the cost of renting a two-bedroom apartment declined in the first quarter of 2025 by 4.9 per cent in Vancouver, 3.7 per cent in Toronto, and 4.2 per cent in Halifax. What is causing this relief? According to the CMHC report, much of this decline occurred alongside the reduction in international students and non-permanent residents allowed into Canada. This contradicts the received wisdom, and the views of lobby groups like the Century Initiative and others who downplayed or overlooked the impact of recklessly growing the population. As late as 2023, Macleans was publishing articles declaring that “limiting immigration isn’t the solution” to the housing crisis. If slashing the annual intake is not a silver bullet for fixing affordability, it certainly has not worsened it. For years, immigrationists asserted that this immigration-driven demographic expansion was worth it , despite the risks of a dwindling housing supply , a rising cost of living , and a flooded job market . The housing crisis worsened as immigration hit modern record highs that inflated the population by three per cent in 2023... Trudeau’s successor, Mark Carney, has promised to bring the number of new permanent residents down to under 400,000 per year. To call this a modest improvement would be an overstatement, as even this drop far exceeds the steadier numbers of the Harper government, which reached 300,000 at their highest point, but were typically much lower, in the 200,000 range. Furthermore, international students and TFWs will supposedly be capped at five per cent of the population, which will come out to over four million people. The supposed negligible impact on affordability was one of many myths used by the Trudeau government and its supporters to justify its immigration policy. Another myth was that mass immigration would “raise living standards for all Canadians,” as stated by Century Initiative co-founder Mark Wiseman in 2016. On July 7, the Conference Board of Canada released a report that found the slowing rates of immigration could help accelerate wage growth across the country, as businesses are forced to compete for labour. It has been a long time since blue-collar Canadian workers were treated as valuable. Simply put, many business owners hire newcomers for low-skilled, low-wage jobs. Michael Bonner, who worked as a policy advisor in the Harper government and later as Director of Policy for the Government of Ontario, has written that , “wages and prices are kept artificially low, and Canadians — usually young people — are priced out.”... Right now, young Canadians are feeling the worst effects of the government’s policies. The rate of youth unemployment stood at 8.2 at per cent at the beginning of 2020, but now it has risen to an alarming 11.2 per cent nationwide for those aged 15 to 24. University graduates, born and raised in Canada, are spending their dwindling summers desperately churning out resumes in the hopes they can secure any meaningful employment before returning to school. The fortunate among them receive a polite rejection, and many have been forced to compete with temporary workers (TFWs) for low-skilled, minimum-wage jobs. Needless to say, Canada’s standard of living has not improved. In fact, it has steadily fallen since 2019. Another myth of modern immigration policy is the canard that Canadians will not work the same jobs as foreign workers. This is true in some sectors, such as manual agricultural labour , but these are the exceptions. Canada may have a low birth rate, but young people did not suddenly disappear between 2019 and today. When nobody else is available, native-born citizens are perfectly capable of taking these allegedly undesirable jobs. Last year in the Globe and Mail, Christopher Worswick, an economist at Carleton University, wrote that the TFW program should be abolished completely. He outlined how many companies deliberately keep wages low and avoid improving working conditions, adding that, as foreign workers often cannot legally switch employers."
Weird how lower demand makes landlords less "greedy". It's almost as if left wing economics is based upon delusion. Meanwhile there're still left wingers pretending zoning is the problem, because you can build houses overnight (even if you ignore how left wing policies reduce housing supply)
Time to blame Harper again for high immigration under Trudeau
I saw someone claim that saying that higher labour supply due to immigration reduced wages was the lump of labour fallacy. But low skilled labour works differently from high skilled
Chris Selley: Canada's refugee system — and the world's — is overdue for an overhaul - "The first case involves Angel Jenkel , a gender non-binary American. She hadn’t actually claimed refugee status, it seems, but rather overstayed her visitor visa. But the result is being hailed as precedent-setting by those who argue Canada ought to offer LGBTQ Americans asylum : A Federal Court judge recently ordered Jenkel’s scheduled deportation stayed, arguing the “pre-removal risk assessment” — which anyone being deported from Canada can request, including failed asylum claimants — hadn’t taken into account the current conditions in Donald Trump’s United States. Jenkel may yet be deported. But it’s quite silly nonetheless. Leave aside for now the fact we often hear about how dreadful it is to be transgender or otherwise gender-non-conforming in Canada. The fact is, the United States has Portland, San Francisco, Las Vegas and other famously LGBTQ-friendly cities in it — indeed, more LGBTQ-friendly cities to choose from, and more cities period, than in Canada. Not wanting to move to another part of your country has never been justification for claiming asylum in another. Expand article logo Continue reading “I … fear not being able to travel to see my family, as most of my family lives in the South, which has already been deemed unsafe for transgender people to travel,” Jenkel told the Globe and Mail — rather oddly, because there’s nothing Canada can do to remedy Jenkel’s travel wishes. Meanwhile, goodness only knows how many LGBTQ people are living under threat of persecution in countries that offer no areas of respite or sanctuary whatsoever. Only they don’t get nearly as much press in Canada as Americans. This is a classic example of how many of Canada’s refugee advocates can’t see past the ends of their noses. Meanwhile, United Way Greater Toronto released a study finding that asylum-seekers who settle in Canada’s biggest city from Africa are having a tough go of it. Major obstacles identified include housing, employment, recognition of foreign credentials, language barriers and insufficient legal support. Well … yeah. Everyone is struggling with housing. Toronto’s shelter system was so overtaxed in 2023 that this supposed “sanctuary city,” led by a supposedly progressive mayor, barred refugees from the city’s homeless shelters. They formed a makeshift encampment on a sidewalk downtown , before several evangelical churches stepped up to offer them food and shelter on their own dime. Language barriers? If you don’t speak English, and if you’re not part of a very well-established ethnic community in the city, then … yeah, you’re going to have trouble. (As of the 2021 Census, just six per cent of immigrants to the Greater Toronto Area came from Africa.) Mistrust of foreign credentials? Again, as our former prime minister Justin Trudeau might say, welcome to Canada. Some credentials can’t even cross provincial boundaries . Insufficient legal support? That checks out too. Google “Ontario legal aid crisis” and just watch the results flow in. (Aspiring refugee claimants might want to do that before they come.) The simple fact is, Canada is not equipped to handle as many refugee claims as we currently accept. If we were, there wouldn’t be African migrants sleeping on Toronto sidewalks. There wouldn’t have been 281,000 pending asylum cases as of March 31. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is certainly aware of the issue. Bill C-2 proposes a one-year deadline after arriving in Canada for claiming asylum — so people with expired or revoked visas couldn’t apply, for example — and to eliminate a loophole in the Safe Third Country Agreement that allows illegal border-crossers who evade capture for two weeks to apply for asylum nevertheless. Both are entirely reasonable. But the current issue of The Economist, cover headline “Scrap the refugee system,” suggests the sort of wholesale changes to the global refugee system that I have been arguing for forever. It’s interesting not so much as a piece of journalism as it is to know that liberal (and Liberal) policymakers very much tend to read The Economist... For the money that rich countries spend processing everyone who manages to make it to their shores — who are generally by definition not the world’s most imperilled or downtrodden, else they wouldn’t be able to get here — they could help vastly more people to safety, even if not First World prosperity. (The latter was never the goal of the current system.)"
Clearly, Canada needs to "tax the 'rich'" to pay for an unlimited number of refugees, and anyone who disagrees isn't a decent human being
Toronto to face $107M shortfall if feds don’t give more funding for refugees: Chow
Virtue signalling as a sanctuary city has costs. But if others don't pony up for the bill, they're bad people
Michael Bonner: We need an immigration policy that will serve all Canadians - "Canadians deserve an immigration system that serves the national interest. This is exactly what we once had when most Canadians agreed with the economic and cultural arguments in favour of immigration. For a long time, Canada avoided the sort of backlash seen in many places abroad. But the economic argument for immigration has collapsed during a time of stagnant wages, housing shortages and high youth unemployment. Likewise, cultural arguments about diversity and multiculturalism have given way to doubts about our ability to integrate newcomers. Now, half of Canadians believe immigration harms the country. And according to a 2024 survey by the Environics Institute, 57 per cent of Canadians agree that too many immigrants “are not adopting Canadian values.”"
Canada took in 817K new immigrants in first four months of 2025
Crash Test Canadian on X - "On track for another 2.4 mil this year. 9.6 mil over the course of Carney’s first term alone. For reference that’s a million more people than currently reside in Quebec, our 2nd largest province by population. The next 4 years are going to get hunger games level fucking wild."
EDITORIAL: What’s going on with immigration? - "the Liberals haven’t released immigration data in months and critics are wondering why... Prime Minister Mark Carney and Immigration Minister Lena Diab have done little to improve a chaotic immigration system. The deregulation of the Temporary Foreign Workers (FTW) program by the previous government of Justin Trudeau in 2022 opened the floodgates. It raised caps on the percentage of immigrants that workforce industries were allowed to hire under the TFW program. It also removed the stipulation that if unemployment was above 6%, TFW approval would not be granted. At the same time, the official Liberal immigration plan called for an increase to 465,000 in new permanent residents in 2023; 485,000 in 2024; and 500,000 in 2025. Meanwhile, figures released by Statistics Canada show unemployment in July was 6.9%, down slightly from the 7% high in May. Youth unemployment is particularly problematic, StatsCan said. “Youth continue to face challenging labour market conditions; the youth employment rate fell 0.7 percentage points to 53.6% in July — the lowest rate since November 1998 (excluding 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic),” the report said. With the looming impact from U.S. tariffs threatening thousands of jobs in our economy, surely it would make sense for the government to keep close tabs on immigration, so it doesn’t add fuel to the unemployment fire. Instead, it seems, the feds have thrown up their hands and opened the floodgates. And we can’t see the numbers to know how bad it could get."
Conservatives say the justice system favours non-citizens. Experts disagree : r/canada - "According to the text of the article - experts don't disagree on if immigrants receive different sentencing, just on if that is ok or not."
Conservatives say the justice system favours non-citizens. Experts disagree : r/canada - "Immigration experts disagree, is what the headline should say. Legal experts are more neutral, as would be expected."
"But how is the CBC supposed to insinuate the conservatives are wrong if they don't use a misleading headline?"
Conservatives say the justice system favours non-citizens. Experts disagree : r/canada - "I’ve been told that any bias you might see is all in your own head. State funded media is always really impartial apparently."
CBC media bias is a far right myth
The Federal Court halted an Indian man's deportation order because of his wife's ADHD. She would suffer "irreparable harm" without him and thus he should stay, says the court, even though it's in the public interest that he is deported "as soon as possible." : r/Ontario_Sub - " He came to Canada in 2021 and claimed asylum (though India is not at war). In 2025, he got married, withdrew his refugee claim and applied for PR. He's no longer here legally, but the judge is allowing him to wait for his PR decision in-country. canlii.ca/t/kds89 https://x.com/sarkonakj/status/1955815618751684633 Justice Avvy Yao-Yao Go, who was the director of a legal clinic before being appointed to the FC in 2021. Wikipedia describes her as an activist. Interestingly in the early 2000s she tried to get the government to pay reparations for the Chinese head tax. https://x.com/sarkonakj/status/1955830244189069633"
Meme - "r/Torontology
Modern-day Toronto is proof that this multiculturalism shit isn't working
We got people in the city protesting and literally fighting over conflicts and shit that has nothing to do with Canada. (Russia-Ukraine, the Eritrean brawl, Hindus- Sikhs, Israel-Palestine, etc) Different groups segregate themselves so much that entire regions in the GTA are now dominated a single ethnic group. (Markham = East Asian, Brampton = South Asians, Vaughn = Europeans, etc) People are struggling to find jobs and/or places to rent simply because they don't belong to the preferred ethnic group. All these different groups don't actually like one another. They tolerate each other at best, and only interact when absolutely necessary. Even in this sub, mans will say the most foul shit in order to disrespect an entire group just because someone made a joke, or said something that offended the other person. People don't come to Canada to be Canadian. They come to Canada to be whatever they were before while living in Canada. There's little to no actual loyalty to this country."
Canada’s immigration system is deeply broken - "Seventeen thousand. That’s the approximate number of individuals with criminal convictions who were admitted to Canada over the past decade.The government has not disclosed how many of those convictions were for serious offences that could have otherwise barred entry. This number, recently revealed by the CTV news and the lack of transparency, raises concerns of the integrity of our immigration system. Canada’s immigration framework, once admired for its fairness and balance, has drifted into crisis. For years, policy decisions prioritized record-setting targets over planning, screening, and integration. The result? A system disconnected from the realities on the ground — and both newcomers and long-settled Canadians are feeling the strain. I grew up in India, trained as a surgeon in Britain and moved to Canada nearly two decades ago. As a physician, educator, father and community member, I have seen immigration enrich communities and transform lives. I’ve also seen the toll of unchecked expansion: overwhelmed emergency departments, ballooning wait times, a shortage of family doctors, and fraying social trust. These are not abstract concerns — they’re happening in clinics, classrooms, and neighbourhoods across this country. Since 2014, Canada’s population has grown by more than six million — roughly 15 per cent — but essential infrastructure hasn’t kept up. We are short more than 3.5 million homes. Young people are being squeezed out of entry-level roles. The youth unemployment rate is among the highest it has ever been. Many students — immigrant and Canadian-born — struggle to find not only housing but also summer and part-time jobs, once considered a rite of passage. Meanwhile, many newcomers face underemployment and are pushed into survival jobs just to stay afloat. Some of these pressures reflect broader economic challenges. But immigration remains the hinge on which many of them turn. And under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the system became increasingly misaligned with the country’s actual needs and capacity. The international student stream, originally meant to attract talent, has become a backdoor to residency. Study permits surged, while many institutions lacked academic oversight. Nearly 50,000 students were listed as “no-shows” by the schools that admitted them. The result: overloaded housing, strained services, and thousands of students left underemployed and adrift. Worse still, Ottawa’s enforcement mechanisms have faltered. The federal government acknowledged that Canada may now have up to 500,000 undocumented residents. Tens of thousands of people overstay visas each year without consequence. A system that overlooks such lapses is not generous — it is negligent. It jeopardizes the very trust on which public support for immigration depends. Support for immigration still runs deep in Canada, but it’s not without limits. Canadians value immigration when it’s fair, focused and transparent. But when the system starts to look porous or easily gamed, confidence frays. And everyone pays the price
Damn Harper!
Clearly the writer just wants to pull the ladder up behind him and is ignorant in not knowing that the reason Canadian healthcare is in crisis is due to Conservatives underfunding it, or that importing boatloads of minimum wage workers to work at Tim Hortons helps build houses and creates more jobs for young people, and that ultimately, it's capitalism that is to blame
Indian students regret coming to Canada : r/CanadaUniversities - "Why should I have sympathy for people who came here with forged documents and no intention of going to school here?"
"Because they’re fucking humans? jfc it’s like you people need to be personally put into the same situation to feel an ounce of empathy. I hope that day comes."
"Forged documents? The vet done by govt is to be blamed. No intention of going to school? These people where scammed by the government..they comes with student loans with a promise of a partime with weeks of arrival to repay their student loans."
Empathy and being a decent human being means if you're a minority and a foreigner and you break the law and forge documents, it's not your fault. In fact, it's the government's fault
BC drunk driver could be deported after getting caught multiple times - "A driver who has racked up 32 driving prohibitions or suspensions, as well as 16 24-hour driving bans, failed to convince a British Columbia judge he should get a lighter sentence than normal for drunk driving because more than six months in jail could get him deported to India. Vernon’s Gurinder Pal Singh Bajwa, a permanent resident of Canada who escaped deportation in 2019 on an impaired driving conviction with a sentence of five months and 29 days, got a reduced sentence this time around because Mounties captured him on surveillance cameras using the toilet in a holding cell after he was arrested for impaired driving again on May 11, 2022, after rear-ending a white Hyundai Tucson with his Mercedes sport utility vehicle in the parking lot of a Wholesale Club. His blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. But the judge refused to lighten Bajwa’s sentence on convictions for impaired and prohibited driving to a level that wouldn’t have immigration consequences for the 57-year-old. Any sentence over six months can result in deportation from Canada... “I am flabbergasted that Crown counsel has only sought a four-month consecutive jail sentence (for driving while prohibited),” Patterson said in his decision dated June 2. “Given the circumstances of the offence, it is hard to imagine a more suitable case for the two-year less-a-day maximum sentence allowed.” Bajwa’s lawyer argued for a conditional sentence or no more jail time than he got in 2019 — five months and 29 days behind bars. He noted that would allow Bajwa to remain in Canada. The court heard Bajwa “has no one in India” and that he’s in the process of getting a divorce “as his alcohol usage ruined his relationship with his estranged wife and his children,” said the judge, who noted they live in Canada."
I saw left wingers defending cases where immigrants get lighter sentences to not get deported as not being two tier justice, because the prosecution agreed to the sentence
Dan Knight on X - "Michelle Rempel: “Why did the Liberals bring in 500,000 foreign students during a housing crisis?”
Liberal Minister: “That number’s wrong! MISINFORMATION!!!”
Rempel: “I got it from your website.” #FFS 500,000 permits = the population of Halifax. #cdnpoli #BillC2 #housingcrisis"
Misinformation is anything that threatens the left wing agenda
Immigration to Canada not a right, Saskatchewan court rules - "The case, as reported by Blacklock’s Reporter, stems from a lab technician from India whose decision to use a sketchy immigration broker resulted in her work permit being revoked. “Foreign nationals do not have a right to immigrate to Canada,” wrote Justice Andrew Davis, of the province’s Court of King’s Bench. “Neither is there any right to a privileged immigration process.” The technician was granted a work permit under the “occupation in demand” category of Saskatchewan’s Immigrant Nominee Program, which was revoked due to her decision to employ Travel Jockey Immigration & Holidays of Surat, India — located about 300 km north of Mumbai. Evidence entered during the hearing included allegations that Travel Jockey offered fake job offer letters and fake college degrees for $1,000 a piece, and the would-be technician’s permit was revoked despite her denials and explanations of irregularities in her application. “Program integrity is essential to a workable immigration system,” Davis wrote in his decision, adding the province was broad powers in accepting or denying immigrants. “It is essential to maintaining public confidence in and support for a government’s immigration policies.”"
Time to protest that the Canadian government broke its promises
Non-citizen johns shouldn't get sentence discounts for their crimes - "In December 2023, Akashkumar Khant, 30 (plus or minus some months), made the mistake of arranging to have sex with a 15-year-old at a Mississauga Holiday Inn for $140. Only, when he got there, that 15-year-old turned out to be a cop. He was arrested at the hotel (with $140 in cash on hand) and subsequently ended up in court — but he won’t receive a criminal record for his actions, in part because of his immigration status. On June 25, Khant was sentenced to a conditional discharge for committing an indecent act. For three months, he will be under house arrest — during which time he can go shopping for three hours every Sunday, attend religious services, medical appointments and travel to and from work. Twelve months of probation will follow afterward. Whether Ontario will appeal remains an open question, as the province won’t reveal its plan until after July 25... Crown prosecutors asked for 90 days, but they didn’t get their wish — and much of the reason why came down to the fact that the accused was not a citizen. Originally from India’s Gujarat state, Khant came to Canada in 2019 for school, specifically, a master’s of engineering. He finished in 2021 and obtained permanent residency in 2023. Also, in 2023, he married his wife, who is currently here on a work visa set to expire in September. This was an important consideration for Justice Paul Thomas O’Marra, who joined the Ontario Court of Justice in the Kathleen Wynne era. Crown prosecutors asked for 90 days, but they didn’t get their wish — and much of the reason why came down to the fact that the accused was not a citizen. Originally from India’s Gujarat state, Khant came to Canada in 2019 for school, specifically, a master’s of engineering. He finished in 2021 and obtained permanent residency in 2023. Also, in 2023, he married his wife, who is currently here on a work visa set to expire in September. This was an important consideration for Justice Paul Thomas O’Marra, who joined the Ontario Court of Justice in the Kathleen Wynne era. Logically, Khant would be getting a higher sentence if he were Canadian — which is why this sentencing practice is so deeply unfair... This is an uphill battle. At the top end, Canadian law requires that judges take immigration consequences into account in sentencing “provided that the sentence that is ultimately imposed is proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of responsibility of the offender.” At no point did we explicitly legislate this: rather, in 2013, it was decided by the Supreme Court, in a judgment authored by now-Chief Justice Richard Wagner... This is happening all around Canada. In Calgary last year, a man on a study visa was found guilty of groping a woman’s genitals at a club; he was given a conditional discharge to lessen his chances of deportation."
