Before joining cabinet, public safety minister wrote immigration support letters for terror group ‘member’ - "Before he was appointed to the federal cabinet two years ago, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wrote letters urging Canadian officials to approve the immigration application of a man they had determined was a member of a terrorist organization. The letters, dated 2023 and 2016, were written on Anandasangaree's House of Commons letterhead and sent to the Canada Border Services Agency on behalf of an alleged member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers who wanted to move to Toronto... Anandasangaree said the agency's refusal to grant Selvakumaran permanent residence had separated the 48-year-old Sri Lankan from his Canadian wife and child, which the Toronto-area MP called “cruel and inhumane.”... In his new portfolio, Anandasangaree has been given the task of helping fend off a White House trade war by bringing in legislation to toughen Canada’s borders, which President Donald Trump has complained are a threat to the United States. But documents on Selvakumaran’s case suggest that Anandasangaree’s support for the would-be migrant may have put Canadian public safety officials in a potentially awkward position: standing up for border security against the wishes of the MP who is now their minister... Waldman said he was disappointed with the court's ruling. He said his client “made a mistake well over two decades ago and claimed refugee status in the United Kingdom based on a false story of relatively low-level involvement with the LTTE.”... In his statement to Global News, Anandasangaree said he had recused himself from decisions related to the Tamil Tigers and the World Tamil Movement, which Public Safety Canada alleges is its Canadian front organization... the CBSA wrote in its report that Selvakumaran’s daughter was born almost a decade after he was informed he was not allowed into Canada due to membership in a terror group. “It should be noted that Mr. Selvakumaran would have been aware, when he started a family with his wife, that he was inadmissible to Canada; he therefore would have been cognizant of the fact that he might not be in a position to join his wife and daughter,” it said... Throughout his dealings with Canada’s immigration system, he has given evolving versions of his past — at first providing details of what he said was his role in the LTTE, and then denying any involvement at all. He initially sought asylum in the United Kingdom, where he told immigration authorities his duties with the LTTE included delivering the group’s propaganda newspapers from house to house... Britain rejected his refugee claim, citing his lack of credibility."
If you don't let admitted terrorists live in your country, you're cruel and inhumane
Sarkonak: Public Safety Minister Anandasangaree is unfit for office - "he went on to make veiled complaints of racism, directed at Global News’ journalists and Canadian society more broadly: “As a Tamil Canadian, active for decades in my community, I have faced innuendo and whisper campaigns that question my allegiances to Canada. “The questions sent to me by Global News infer something that no other minister has to face: their premise is that I somehow support a terrorist organization and would make decisions that would favour a terrorist organization. That is false.” Well, no other ministers have had to proactively bow out of discussions regarding particular terror groups, have they? The implication is that it’s irrational — immoral, even; an act born from subconscious bias — to question a Canadian immigrant’s sympathies for home country terror organizations. But such considerations are regularly weighed in immigration proceedings, and it’s undeniable that some members of some diaspora communities let their factional roots get the best of them. Just look at the Khalistani movement, the Eritrean riots, the pro-Hamas, glory-to-the-Houthis chants. These aren’t out-of-bounds concerns. So, when a minister raises an ethics screen between himself and two literal terror groups, and supports the immigration bid of one of their affiliates, questions should be expected. Anandasangaree could have chalked his letters up to a constituency-level oversight and promised better care in screening out bad apples from his to-help list. Alas, he made no such commitment and instead tried to get his investigators to avert their eyes for fear of being called racist. This has backfired: his response has only raised suspicions."
If you don't let admitted terrorists live in your country, you're racist
Immigration grew six times faster over past decade: Study - "Canada’s immigration levels grew six times faster over the past decade than it did from the turn of the century, says a new Fraser Institute study. The numbers, which include temporary foreign workers and international students, are contained in a new report entitled Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns, 2000–2024. “Immigration, after 2000 and especially after 2015, is characterized by substantial increases in the absolute number of immigrants admitted, as well the share admitted as temporary foreign workers and international students,” authors Jock Finlayson and Steven Globerman wrote in the study. Between 2000 and 2014, annual immigration in Canada was around 618,000 people, but between 2016 and 2024 — excluding the pandemic-impacted 2020 — immigration more than doubled to around 1.4 million annually. These increasing numbers can be directly attributed to changes in government policy, the study points out — specifically mentioning 2014’s International Mobility Program (IMP), which allowed employers to fill gaps in lower-paying jobs with temporary foreign workers. “A key development shaping immigration policy under the Liberal government of former prime minister Justin Trudeau was the work done by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, appointed in early 2016, ” the study states, adding the Trudeau government welcomed their recommendations enthusiastically... “At the same time, Ottawa stepped away from providing meaningful policy and administrative oversight of the burgeoning international education ‘industry,'” the study continued. “Thanks to this hands-off approach, Canadian universities, colleges, and technical and language schools ramped up enrollment of international students, essentially without limit.” Unchecked immigration and international student enrollments greatly contributed to Canada’s cost-of-living and housing crisis, with foreign students snapping up the limited number of housing rentals and part-time jobs in many cities. Foreign students not fortunate enough to find housing ended up in shelters and even living rough on the streets , relying on social services and food banks to support their studies."
Left wingers are still blaming Harper for high immigration. Weird how Trump is responsible for everything bad that happens in the US and the world not just when he is in office but after, but the Liberal party isn't to blame for a federal responsibility during its term of office
Wages will rise as population growth slows: Conference Board - "The Conference Board of Canada expects wage hikes will pick up speed in the coming years as the pace of population growth slows down... the federal government’s efforts to throttle immigration levels could start to tip the balance back toward workers in the years to come... Businesses are going to struggle more to find talent in the coming years as a result, which Renner said will force employers to hire more from Canada’s existing labour pool. The Conference Board expects these dynamics will drive the unemployment rate lower in the coming years, down to 6.2 per cent in 2026 and 5.8 per cent in 2027. More competition among businesses for a shortage of workers will help keep wage growth ahead of inflation in the years ahead, he said."
Weird. We keep being told that immigrants do not decrease wages but increase them.
Carney's border bill is bracing Canada for more Liberal neglect - "If passed, the bill would render any asylum claimant who files after being in Canada for a year inadmissible (this will apply to anyone who entered Canada after June 24, 2020), among other things. The consequences for this would be dire for those who have been abusing the refugee system in their attempts to remain in the country. International students, for example, have skyrocketed as a source of asylum applications, surpassing 20,000 last year (six times the amount of claims they made in 2019), and a quick browse on YouTube yields how-to guides from abroad, showing just how popular this route has become. Many of their claims would die with the passing of this bill. Bill C-2 would also allow cabinet to stop processing residency applications of foreigners, and target these measures to “certain foreign nationals” or to a specified “class of applications.” Numerous other proposed changes would supposedly give the government more access to information, presumably to aid law enforcement in doing their jobs: immigration authorities will be able to disclose “personal information” in their possession to other government departments (provincial or federal) if the minister makes regulations allowing for it; Canada Post would be permitted to open letters if a certain threshold of suspicion is met, presumably to combat drug trafficking. The sex offender registry, meanwhile, would be able to track more information about offenders and disclose it to more government bodies, while border agents would be empowered to disclose more information about sex offenders to other government bodies... One wonders whether cabinet would go as far as setting immigration limits on source countries. Prior to former prime minister Justin Trudeau, new admits to Canada were decently diversified: in 2014 a plurality of permanent residents came from China, at 13 per cent, followed by India and the Philippines; China also sent the most international students (34 per cent) in 2013-14, followed by France, the United States, India and Saudia Arabia (which each comprised between eight and four per cent). Now, India dominates the influx of foreigners to Canada, making up 27 per cent of new permanent residents in 2022, and 45 per cent of international students. It also comprises 22 per cent of temporary foreign workers. The downsides of this are wide-ranging, including the risk of cultural enclaves, as well as the proliferation of organized crime and exploitation thanks to the difficulty in tracing cross-border networks and investigating through language barriers. A country cap of, say 10 to 15 per cent — perhaps less, to make up for past years — wouldn’t solve everything, but it would help. The government’s new open-minded approach to information sharing is another point of optimism — perhaps it could lead to better enforcement, and maybe, just maybe, greater ability for police to disclose the citizenship status of non-citizens charged with crimes. Canadians should have the right to know whether that “Brampton man”charged with sexually assaulting a girl in a park was here by birthright, or was welcomed by an immigration system designed by politicians who are ultimately accountable to the public. As for the regulation of street drugs, Bill C-2 would also tighten our lax rules on ingredients — also called precursor chemicals — which have made this country a convenient staging ground for illicit manufacturing. It’s about time. Any optimism for this bill, however, can’t be felt without doubt. Any provision that allows cabinet to make rules on a general subject remains vulnerable to not being acted upon at all, which means we may never see source-country limits. And regardless of a few more proposed restrictions on asylum, Carney’s overall immigration plan is one that will largely maintain Trudeau-era intake numbers, leaving Canada an even more crowded place."
Sarkonak: Canadians right to favour melting pot model of assimilation - "Below the swell of goose-vs-eagle elbows-up patriotism that continues to gush through the nation lies an undercurrent of worry: half of Canadians feel that we’re losing a collective sense of what it means to be Canadian. The finding was made by a new Postmedia-Leger poll released in advance of Canada Day, which asked respondents whether they feel, in the last four to five years, that “Canada has been losing a shared, collective identity of what it means to be Canadian.” Fifty-two per cent of replies were “yes,” while only 30 per cent were “no.” The poll also measured a tremendous amount of national pride: 83 per cent of respondents claimed to be either “very proud” or “somewhat proud” of their country, with only 15 per cent stating they were not. Thirty-four per cent of respondents felt their pride had grown in recent months, a sentiment felt prominently among the 55+ crowd, and among Liberal voters — a confirmation of the boomeristic character of the anti-Trump “Canada is Not for Sale” crowd. Among all recent-pride feelers, 83 per cent credited U.S. President Donald Trump for their deepening emotions... So, despite being incredibly proud to be Canadian, a good number of us are starting to wonder what common ground we share with our countrymen that makes us distinctly Canadian. It’s a crisis of identity that, based on pure numbers, makes sense. Canada has changed, fast... Canada for many years managed to keep public sentiment on the side of immigration by maintaining high bars to entry, selecting only the immigrants we needed, and favouring those who have a greater potential for assimilation. Foreign students developed a reputation for being rich, or eager to become Canadian, or both. Immigrant adults were known for being self-supporting, often with some prestige from professional or business backgrounds. Refugees were known for being grateful and hungry to contribute back to their new home. They came from all over the world, and it was fine — they joined Canadian-born nationals in their love for the country. The quality simply couldn’t be maintained with volume. A liberal approach to student visas — which quadrupled the number of permitholders from 2011 to 2024, placed them at 2.5 per cent of the population last year. Fraud ensued. Last fall, Statistics Canada found that one-fifth of international students weren’t actually studying. Students too poor to afford a life here were scammed, strip-mall diploma mills grew, and the credentialed newcomers they churned out — noticed by their Canadian counterparts to be increasingly incapableofreadingandwriting in English — continued on their quest to receive citizenship. Indeed, language barriers (the non-English and non-French kind) are increasingly presenting themselves to doctors, health-care staff and police. Some provincial governments get around this obstacle by releasinginformation in numerous foreign languages. Even the private sector is jumping on board; stand in line at a TD Bank and you’ll be treated with a slew of ads clearly targeted at new arrivals. Canadian jobseekers, meanwhile, have noticeda rise in ads seeking Punjabi speakers (and in Vancouver, Mandarin). These preferences come at a time when the employment prospects of Canadian youth, who once easily filled many entry-level jobs, have steeply fallen to a jobless rate of 13.4 per cent. It’s a source of frustration for both Canadian-born English-only speakers and their immigrant non-Punjabi counterparts. Many newcomers are still happy to assimilate, but not all — and as the total number of new arrivals grows, so too does the number of those who barricade themselves in enclaves and hold on to old, sometimes un-Canadian values. Edmonton and Calgary police both had to defuse Eritrean riots in 2023; a Montreal elementary school had to suspend 11 Muslim teachers amid allegations of creating a toxic, sometimes violent environment; anti-Israel protests have become a regular feature of Toronto and Montreal, correlating with high immigration in the last decade from Muslim countries. Making matters worse is a national attitude that sends the message to newcomers that Canada is racist, hateful of its Indigenous people and has a history in strong need of being painted over. All of this, Canadian officials will probably say, is a good thing. “Diversity is our strength” is a phrase that has been uttered in Parliament 135 times; government documents often tout the Canadian mosaic model of multiculturalism. But regular Canadians, for the most part, never wanted this: in 1993, Angus Reid found that 57 per cent of the nation wanted minorities to “be more like most Canadians”; in 2016, 68 per cent were found to believe that “minorities should do more to fit in better.” There’s a common-sense understanding, which could be acknowledged more openly in the early 2000s, that diversity can also offer challenges to overcome. This is still the dominant view: in its June study, Leger found that 64 per cent of Canadians believe immigrants should be encouraged to embrace Canadian values and leave behind incompatible elements of their home cultures, melting-pot-like. Only 22 per cent favoured the mosaic model. There’s some wisdom in that."
Clearly, this shows that Canadians are racist xenophobes who need to be punished reeducated with even more mass migration
Lax immigration vetting makes Canada prime target for Iranian infiltration, says Secure Canada - "Canada needs real and rigorous reform of its immigration bureaucracy to deal with agents of the Iranian regime, urges a Canadian terror watchdog. In a statement posted online this week by the Council for a Secure Canada, the organization highlighted the threat posed by infiltration of Iranian officials, and how ill-equipped Canada is to deal with them... “Considering the fact they figured out that Canada has a very lax vetting system, doesn’t take national security particularly seriously — at least in the past decade — I would say, or just over, and there’s a very established Iranian diaspora,” they said. Recent news reports, however, suggest Iran has as many as 700 agents at work in Canada, with the possibility of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members fleeing here as the Iranian regime becomes less stable. The Sun spoke with numerous Iranian-Canadians who’ve said they — and their families back home — are under constant threat based on what they say in public or to the media about Iran’s despotic government. “(Agents) have deep ties to Hezbollah, they have ties to other expat communities that share the Shia access and an ideological worldview,” Secure Canada said. “Combined with lax vetting standards and a reluctance to deport, and the difficulty with which the system takes even really good cases for deportation — where agents work for over a year to build a very clear case — and the way the system can be gamed by people with deep pockets, and even people without particularly deep pockets.” This reluctance to deport is baked into the institutional culture of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC,), Secure Canada claimed — with sources and internal investigations suggesting career advancement for immigration caseworkers is based on keeping rejection rates low. “The mantra (within IRCC) is ‘admit, admit, admit,'” they said. “It’s that complex of wanting to appear PC in every step of the process.”"
We're not Los Angeles yet, but it might be coming - "It has all made for great television and amusing political theatre, with Democrats shouting righteously about the rule of law and due process while ignoring their own support for “sanctuary” laws that undermine their own government’s capacity to enforce federal immigration legislation. Not to be outdone, Donald Trump’s Republicans have invoked the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to back their plans for mass deportations. The 1798 law was about pirates. Despite heartrending accounts of children torn from their parents’ arms, Americans are not generally overwrought about Trump’s hardline remedy to the preposterously intractable American political quagmire involving undocumented workers and border security. A CBS-YouGov poll shows Trump is polling better on this file than on the economy or inflation, with 54 per cent of respondents expressing approval. In the popular imagination, Canadians would not abide such lowbrow measures as mass deportations of illegal immigrants, but in fact we would. Or rather roughly half of us would, which is more or less the same as the American polling results. Nearly half the respondents to a Leger poll undertaken for the Association of Canadian Studies last December said mass deportations are necessary to deal with illegal immigration in Canada. It’s not for lack of evidence that 65 per cent of Canadians say Ottawa’s immigration levels are set too high. That was the view of only 35 per cent of respondents in 2019, and even after the Liberal government’s recent pledges to get its act together and scale back on the annual volume of newcomers, that’s the standpoint of nearly two-thirds of us. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to argue against it. Statistics Canada’s “population clock” counted 41,681,71 people who were living in Canada as of Wednesday morning this week, up from 35,851,800 in 2015. This was the biggest spike in immigration in 60 years, contributing to Canada’s rank as the second-worst country for housing affordability, after Portugal, in the 38-member Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Despite reassurances from Prime Minister Mark Carney that his government intends to scale back the influx, the numbers keep going up... The 2025 target for new temporary-resident arrivals is 673,650, declining to 543,600 by 2027 — but housing starts in Canada added only 245,000 units in 2024. What all this means is that if we’re extraordinarily lucky, Canada’s housing affordability catastrophe will remain at roughly the same crisis levels for the foreseeable future. It doesn’t help that Immigration Minister Lena Diab doesn’t seem to know how many undocumented workers there are in Canada, or how many temporary workers leave Canada after their permits expire... Ottawa’s assumption that people simply leave when their visas run out is “a fiction,” according to former federal economist Henry Lotin, founder of the consultancy Integrative Trade and Economics... Across party lines, there is a broad political reluctance to advance any policy that would actually reduce home prices in Canada. Meanwhile, eight in 10 Canadians have concluded that homeownership has become a luxury for the rich, and seven in 10 Canadians who don’t own a home say they never expect to own one... After all the scandals involving compromised federal politicians and manipulated federal election races, there is still no sign that the Carney government intends to proceed with a foreign influence registry. With politically active immigrants from the Middle East emerging as a heavy counterweight to Canada’s long-standing affinity with the Jewish state of Israel, profound changes are underway in the formulation of Canada’s foreign policy and Canada’s traditions of religious tolerance. For all the Liberals’ recent admissions of error, the Trudeau government’s immigration legacy is with us still, and there’s little evidence that a Carney government, despite its reassurances, will be making much of a break with it."
Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 on X - "G7: Khalistanis Across North America Meet in Calgary to Ambush and Kill India’s PM’s Politics “Yes, I am ready to kill Modi politics, [to] ambush Modi,” said Manjinder Singh, leading the convoy from Gurdwara Dashmesh in Calgary. “[He] is an enemy of Canada, this Hindu terrorist Narendra Modi,” he said, asking Canadians to join them for the “ambush”tomorrow. The organizers, Sikhs for Justice, consider themselves the descendants of the assassins of late Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and are calling for the killing of current Prime Minister Modi’s politics during an ambush in Canada."
It's only inciting violence when white people do it
🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 on X - "I was today years old when I learned that the Canadian Government subsidizes up to 60% of wages for businesses that hire "newcomers" AND gives them a tax credit of 25%... But Canadians can barely make ends meet or find jobs..."
Ask Perplexity on X - "The claim that the Canadian government subsidizes up to 60% of wages for businesses hiring newcomers and offers a 25% tax credit is partially accurate but needs clarification. Programs like Quebec's Employment Integration Program provide wage subsidies covering up to 60% of salaries for immigrants and visible minorities, while other initiatives, such as the Co-operative Education Tax Credit, offer a 25% refund for eligible wages in specific cases. However, these subsidies are targeted and vary by region, program, and eligibility criteria. They aim to support underrepresented groups and foster workforce integration rather than broadly applying to all newcomers or employers across Canada."
Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants - "The lobby of the Wyndham Garden Tower Hotel in Niagara Falls at 8am is busy with chatter in all manner of languages... The scene plays out in 11 nearby hotels each morning. The influx of migrants has taken the city to breaking point, according to its mayor, who has to manage the stress of having more asylum seekers per capita than anywhere else in the country, with all the strains that places on schools, hospitals and other services. “I gotta tell you our shelters are full, our transitional housing is full, the drug problem is like it’s never been before,” said Jim Diodati. “We’ve got thousands of asylum seekers, we’re just coming out of Covid which was difficult for a tourist destination like Niagara Falls. We’ve been hit from all sides continuously.”... Housing shortages and a cost of living crisis have made immigration one of the key battlegrounds... At its peak Niagara Falls (not to be muddled with a city of the same name on American soil) was home to 5,000 asylum seekers among a population of a little over 100,000. “They usually take some of the lower rental places, which means it leaves less for the locals,” he said. It brings challenges for local businesses and for the hotels, even if some are happy to pocket cash from the federal government. “There’s been people who’ve called and said, ‘Are there asylum seekers at this hotel?” he said. “They want to stay where they feel like they’re on vacation with other travellers.” In 2024, more than 54,000 asylum seekers arrived in Canada. Those that arrive at Toronto’s international airport are among those bussed to Niagara Falls, less than two hours away. What was meant to be a temporary solution is looking increasingly permanent, said Mr Diodati... Tensions are evident elsewhere in the city. Away from the roaring falls, crammed with phone-wielding tourists in the warm April sun, residents describe resentment at how much money is spent on the new arrivals. “I wish the government was paying for three meals for my family,” said a hotel worker, who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. Business owners have their own worries. Mr Diodati tells the story of a Brazilian steakhouse that went through a $7 million makeover, only for the owner to realise that the city’s hotels were filled with people who were not going to be spending money on slap-up dinners. Elizabeth Bilotta, owner of the Hair Gallery salon, said she had lost hundreds of dollars from missed appointments. “When I have called them they just say they are a refugee as if that makes it OK,’ she said. “These are four-hour appointments, $200 to $300. I still have to pay my staff.”"
Heartless far right! How can they not offer help to migrants in need?! They have no empathy (for the migrants)
Niagara Falls ‘at breaking point’ after surge in migrants : r/niagara - "If anyone is reading this article and blaming refugees, I'd remind them to blame the multi billionaires that own politicians, including NF Mayor Diodati who is making bank off this, same with the diploma mills, and large corporate employers. The article features PP rage bait quotes and is designed to have you pointing the finger at Libs and refugees. Follow the money. If you have time to investigate immigration policy, you'd probably be blaming Doug Ford, guys like The NF Mayor, and the corporations that are all benefitting financially. It's articles like this that keep us fighting amongst ourselves while the Multi-Billionaires and the puppets they own, laugh. Things are about to get worse before they get worse. No war but a class war. Rise up Niagara. And no matter who you vote for, go vote. Once the elections have passed, we go to work. MushLove! 🍄❤️🙏🇨🇦"
"I followed the money. Turns out it leads back to the federal government that shipped those asylum seekers to Niagara Falls and is paying for their hotel rooms. The same government that said everybody is welcome and caused the surge in asylum seekers coming to Canada. The article has nothing to do with TFWs or international students. Your comment has nothing to do with the actual article."
Left wing logic: because some private companies benefit financially from a surge of migrants, it's their fault that there's a surge of migrants and not the government's. There was a lot of the usual cope in the thread, from blaming the "far right biased news site" to claiming provinces are asking for refugees (hilariously, one conflated the provincial nomination program with accepting refugees and another claimed this was about international students so it was Doug Ford's fault)