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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Smartphones Have No Place In Canadian Schools

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A Montreal man is launching a class-action lawsuit against several parent companies of major social media platforms, alleging that social media is designed to leverage dopamine – a neurotransmitter and hormone associated with pleasure (sometimes called the brain’s “reward centre”) – to entrap users into spending endless hours scrolling. It’s hard to know whether a

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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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Don’t Defund The CBC – Just Purge The Woke Ideology

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I understand the urge to defund the CBC. On any given day, the CBC website consists of a dozen puff pieces and feel-good stories, along with four or five articles that read like transcripts of critical race and gender theory university lectures. A quick glance reveals that the CBC is currently promoting a documentary called

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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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The Green Party Should Oppose Canada’s Mass Immigration Policy

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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

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