New Leger Poll: Nearly Every Demographic In Canada Wants Lower Immigration

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Just several days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a reduction in the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers, Leger has released a new poll showing that most Canadians think immigration levels are too high. In fact, this attitude prevails among nearly every single demographic and subsection of respondents – a startling degree of common […]

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Trudeau’s Cut To The Foreign Worker Program Does Not Go Nearly Far Enough

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This morning, on the the second day of a three-day Liberal cabinet retreat, Justin Trudeau announced that his government intends to reduce the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers starting in September. Their slate of reforms will include restoring the policy of freezing temporary foreign worker visa approvals in areas where the unemployment rate is

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Quebec’s Freeze On Foreign Worker Visas Is A Challenge To Trudeau

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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

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The Sheer Idiocy Of Fighting Ageing With Mass Immigration

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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

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Business Groups Condemn Trudeau’s Modest Reduction In Foreign Workers

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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

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Allowing In Too Many Foreign Workers “Drives Down Wages” – Justin Trudeau, 2014

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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

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Proposed Immigration Amendment Would Flood Canada With Low-Skill Labour

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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

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Premier Eby’s Complaints About B.C.’s Out Of Control Population Growth Ring Hollow

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“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,

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Cultural Arguments For Lower Immigration Are Entirely Legitimate

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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

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