After working as a reporter for the Vancouver Sun for seventeen years, Barry Broadfoot left his desk to travel “at least 15,000 miles” with a tape recorder and collect oral accounts of living through Canada’s Great Depression. He interviewed hundreds of Canadians from all walks of life. Sometimes he conducted scheduled interviews, but often he […]
Remembering Barry Broadfoot And The Ten Lost Years Read More »
At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Quebec Premier Francois Legault announced a six-month freeze on low-wage foreign worker visas in Montreal to limit pressure on housing and public services, as well as to protect the French language. While there are exemptions for the health, education, construction, agriculture, and food processing sectors, the measure is
Quebec’s Freeze On Foreign Worker Visas Is A Challenge To Trudeau Read More »
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on the Canadians for a Sustainable Society website (sustainablesociety.com). It is republished here with permission of the author. This version has been slightly abridged – read the full version here. In 2022 Canada’s population momentarily stopped ageing for the first time since 1971, driven by mass immigration policies. The median age of
The Sheer Idiocy Of Fighting Ageing With Mass Immigration Read More »
A letter sent to three of Trudeau’s cabinet ministers on August 1st, signed by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, warns that Ottawa’s planned reduction in temporary immigration could have “catastrophic economic consequences” for the business sector. The letter was written by Nancy Healey, who holds a government post
Business Groups Condemn Trudeau’s Modest Reduction In Foreign Workers Read More »
An overreliance on foreign workers “drives down wages and displaces Canadian workers”. No, that’s not a quote from an op-ed in the National Post or Dominion Review. That was written by Justin Trudeau! Here’s the full quote, from his op-ed published in the Toronto Star in 2014: “Since taking office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
Allowing In Too Many Foreign Workers “Drives Down Wages” – Justin Trudeau, 2014 Read More »
In the summer of my 15th year, I stepped outside my house on a small fenced-off acreage on the outskirts of a country town in Alberta to find a cow standing in my front yard. Some may not find such a thing to be odd in a rural community – what made it odd to
Loss Of Trust In Post-National Canada Read More »
Yesterday, I tweeted about an amendment to the Immigration and Refugees Protection Act (IRPA) that would create a federal path to permanent residency for low-skill foreign workers. This change would apply to foreign workers with experience and training that falls under the Training, Education, Experience and Responsibilities (TEER) levels 4 and 5. TEER 4 jobs
Proposed Immigration Amendment Would Flood Canada With Low-Skill Labour Read More »
“Sound and fury, signifying nothing”. Shakespeare’s mournful description of human life in Macbeth can be aptly applied to Premier David Eby’s constant expressions of frustration with Ottawa’s pedal-to-the-metal population growth strategy. Speaking on July 17th beside Newfoundland Premier Andrew Furey, who the B.C. government is supporting in a challenge to the federal government’s equalization program,
Premier Eby’s Complaints About B.C.’s Out Of Control Population Growth Ring Hollow Read More »
July’s edition of the Maclean’s is a special issue devoted entirely to immigration, titled “41 Million Canadians – How the rush to grow Canada’s population is testing the country’s limits”. This is one of the more striking examples of the mainstreaming of immigration in Canada’s national discussion. Last summer, op-eds questioning Trudeau’s out of control
Cultural Arguments For Lower Immigration Are Entirely Legitimate Read More »
On May 15th, 2023, the House of Commons voted on a Bloc Quebecois motion condemning the Century Initiative, an immigration lobby which wants to raise Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100. The motion failed, with 138 Bloc and Conservative MPs voting in favour, and 168 Liberal and New Democrat MPs voting against. This was
The Green Party Should Oppose Canada’s Mass Immigration Policy Read More »
