Record High Immigration Is Unsustainable

Canada's immigration department is the most dysfunctional of the dysfunctial Trudeau Liberal government. Their plan is to increase immigration from 431,645 in 2022, which was already a
historical record, to 500,000 in 2025. This is double the 250,000 when the
Liberals took power. The previous record was 400,900 in 1913. Unless we are
indigenous, we wouldn't be here without the immigration of our forefathers (and
foremothers) who came to this country in search of a better life. Having said
that, in the middle of both a housing and healthcare crisis might not be the
best time to have such a mass influx of newcomers. The ability to absorb this
increase without putting a strain on the resources of current Canadian citizens
and having the immigrants afford decent housing and accessing the healthcare
system is highly doubtful. As well, the Liberals have allowed the number of
foreign students and other non-permanent residents like temporary foreign workers to quadruple from half a million
to two million, with the net increase in 2022 alone of 607,782, adding more
fuel to the housing wildfire. The number of temporary visas that are going to expire in 2025 is 4.9 million. The government has said that is relying on the holders of the visas to leave voluntarily, but the visas of 500,000 temporary migrants have already ended and they haven't left the country. There is no plan to enforce the removal of any of these who are here illegally.
A group of temporary foreign workers in Prince Edward Island protested the province's decrease in the current year by 500 people in the nomination of 1,600 workers for immigration by setting up camp outside the provincial legislature before moving to the grounds of St. Paul's Church. Like everywhere else in Canada, the province was attempting to deal with the housing shortage and stressed public services due to population growth. When a fire occured one night at one of the tents, the organizers who were eager to be portrayed as victims, blamed arson. Liberal MP Sean Casey was just as eager to fulfill the "woke" victim and oppressor narrative, and said "I condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the recent tent fire at the encampment where individuals have been peacefully protesting policy changes to P.E.I.'s immigration system. This act of intimidation is not only illegal and completely unacceptable, it goes against the core values of our democratic society." He claimed that the callous treatment by the province had contributed to online abuse "that has now manifested itself into real danger." It turned out that a small hole was burned through a tent as the result of a lit mosquito coil and not the result of violence by hate-filled Canadians in support of a cruel oppressor.
There are restrictions on immigrants with chronic health problems to help avoid a drain on social services such as health care. When Justin Trudeau came to power immigrants were turned away if their condition would cost taxpayers more than $7,000. In 2021 it was tripled to $21,000 but the limits don't apply to refugees or illegal immigrants who can take advantage of free Canadian health care. The number of seniors admitted under the family reunification system that will be reliant on the Canadian welfare state was increased from 5,000 per year to 20,000. The Fraser Institute has calculated a lifetime cost of $300,000 for every retiree who came to Canada as a new immigrant since they are mostly unproductive but use the health care system and are eligible for CPP after 10 years and Old Age Security when over 65. Trudeau also kept the cap on the number of temporary foreign workers that a business can employ at 20 per cent, when it was due to be reduced to 10 per cent. The influx was supposed to alleviate a labour shortage and allow business to get cheap labour while youth unemployment that would fill many of those jobs remains high.
Immigrants and
non-permanent residents will usually end up in the big cities where the cost of
living is already such a problem that many residents are leaving them for
cheaper housing costs on the outskirts or in rural areas. This is proving to be
a shock for immigrants, many of whom are competing for low-income jobs as well
as affordable housing. "Strong population growth from immigration is adding both demand and supply to the
economy: newcomers are helping to ease the shortage of workers while also
boosting consumer spending and adding to demand for housing," the Bank of
Canada said in a press release on its latest rate hike. Inexplicably, Justin Trudeau acknowledged the problem by saying, without taking responsibility for the problem, "Whether it's temporary foreign workers of whether it's international students in particular, they have grown at a rate far beyond what Canada has been able to absorb. We want to get those numbers down," talking as if the problem was created by some other unknown person which he will heroically solve. A glaring ommission in his comments is the same acknowledgement about immigrants.
"The new
immigration rates will
be
substantially higher than rates in similar countries, such as Australia," said New Brunswick
political science professor Ted McDonald. "There's no
assessment that I have seen of the impact of these targets on housing
affordability and availability, no assessment of these targets in terms of
additional pressures on health care," said Andrew Griffith, a former
high-ranking official at Immigration and Citizenship Canada.
Quebec Premier
Francois Legault will introduce new legislation to decrease the number of temporary foreign workers in the Montreal area by 3,500 from the current 12,000. The number of asylum seekers, temporary foreign workers and foreign students doubled between 2021 and 2024, from 300,000 to 600,000. Legault said, "If tomorrow morning those 300,000 were not here, we would not have a housing crisis".
The ability of
the government to properly screen applicants is also questionable. Opposition
parties say the fact the government allowed half of foreign nationals
red-flagged as security risks into the country between 2014 and 2019 is
shocking and erodes Canadians' trust in the immigration system. This is very
concerning and undermines trust and confidence of Canada's immigration process, NDP
MP and Immigration critic Jenny Kwan said in a statement Tuesday. She was
responding to a National Post report that between 2014 and 2019, 46% of foreign
nationals flagged by security agencies to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Canada (IRCC) for ties to serious offences such as war crimes, espionage and
terrorism were allowed to take up residency in Canada.
Canada has gained a reputation as a haven for criminals and terrorists. The Hindustan Times has reported that there were 21 "gangsters" in Canada that are wanted by Indian authorities, after a Sikh separatist leader, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was shot dead by two masked gunmen in British Columbia in June 2023. Canada had refused India's request to extradite him, even after Interpol issued two red notices, which is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action. Indian media blame NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, as a Sikh separatist sympathizer and crucial to the survival of the Trudeau government, for the lax attitude towards Sikh separatists in Canada. Canada also refused Bangladesh's request to extradite Noor Chowdhury, who was convicted of assassinating former Bangladeshi president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The recent arrest of father and son for a terrorism plot in Toronto seems to support that characterization. It was found that they immigrated to Canada and the father was granted Canadian citizenship even though he was involved with ISIS in torturing an ISIS prisoner outside of Canada. Claiming that "A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian", Justin Trudeau removed the ability of the immigration minister to revoke Canadian citizenship of a dual citizen if they have been convicted, even by a foreign court, of treason, espionage or terrorism offences, including ones committed as a Canadian citizen. The U.S. has raised concerns about the planned 5,000 Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip being admitted into Canada because of the risk of individuals with ties to terror groups that would have easy access to the U.S.
In 2023 deportation orders were issued for 700 student visa holders from India for using fraudulant university letters to obtain entry, but were frozen by then immigration minister Sean Fraser. Fraser said, "Any pending removals will be halted in the interim and there will be a temporary permission to stay over the course of this period of consideration. Those international students who are genuine applicants that came to study and were victimized by fraudsters will be given permission to remain in Canada," but "those who are complicit to a fraudulent scheme will be held accountable." So we have fraudsters as "victims".
Due to the strain strong population growth is putting on
the housing market, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced that the number of student
visas for 2024 will be capped at 364,000, a 35 percent decrease from the 560,000 of the previous
year. Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said that the newly announced cap on international
student enrolments should help ease rent price inflation. But the cap so far has been a lie. Foreign student permits in the first half of 2024 was actually higher than in 2023. There has been no word on any reduction of
regular immigration as it looks like the Liberals are sticking to their runious plan.
Conservative MP Lianne Rood discovered that Ottawa budgets about $224 per day to feed and house some foreigners who claim asylum after illegally entering the country. At the end of 2023, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada recorded 42,387 pending refugee claims by irregular border crossers. And the per diem cost may go even higher once factoring in the other “essential items” provided for free to claimants, including “toiletries, medicines, diapers. “The NDP-Liberal government is giving TEN TIMES the benefits to illegal border jumpers than it is giving to help Canadian seniors! DISGRACEFUL!” she wrote on X.