And the other 49% are immigrants.Canadians becoming more sharply divided over record high immigration quotas: Study
'Half of Canadians, 51%, agree immigrants need to do more to integrate into Canadian society'
Author of the article:Kevin Connor
Published Jul 29, 2024 • Last updated 16 hours ago • 1 minute read
New federal data shows Canadians are more divided over record high immigration quotas due to concerns such as housing shortages and foreigners “causing Canada to change in ways they don’t like.”
“Half of Canadians, 51%, agree immigrants need to do more to integrate into Canadian society,” said in-house research by the Department of Immigration, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“Just under half of Canadians, 46%, agree Canada should focus on helping unemployed Canadians rather than looking for skilled immigrants to fill labour shortages.”
The Canadians questioned also expressed unease with the social impact of immigration. “About one quarter of Canadians, 27%, agree immigration is causing Canada to change in ways they don’t like,” said the report, title 2024 Annual Tracking Study.
Support for immigration was “accompanied with an attitude of ‘not right now’ or ‘how are we going to make this work?'” wrote researchers. “This sentiment was partly underpinned by concerns about the impact of immigration on infrastructure.”
The immigration department paid Ipsos $295,428 for the study which involved questionnaires with 3,000 people nationwide and 14 focus groups.
The federal government’s current Immigration Levels Plan sets the 2024 quota at 485,000, a number that those surveyed “could not fathom” how cities would handle.
That quota was “too many” for 52% in Alberta, 51% in Nova Scotia, 49% in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, 47% in Saskatchewan, 46% in British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador, 43% in New Brunswick, 38% in Quebec, and 37% in Manitoba.
Asked if immigration had a net “negative effect” on their province, 41% of Ontarians surveyed said yes, while a third of Prince Edward Islanders, 33%, and 27% of Albertans said immigration was a net negative.
Canadians becoming more sharply divided over record high immigration quotas: Study
About one quarter of Canadians, 27%, agree immigration is causing Canada to change in ways they don't like, the report foundtorontosun.com
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'Colossal failure': Conservatives call for probe into how Canada let in suspect with alleged ISIS ties — National Post
The RCMP has laid terrorism related charges against a father and son who police say were planning a 'violent attack'apple.news
OWE supporters. Without our out of control immigration system, they would be on welfare.
45 years of public service. The system is broken.
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Powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleads guilty to traveling to Europe to pay for sex with minor
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.
Hell, he coulda got that in Fargo.45 years of public service. The system is broken.
Powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleads guilty to traveling to Europe to pay for sex with minor
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.
He should have gone to Thailand .45 years of public service. The system is broken.
Powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleads guilty to traveling to Europe to pay for sex with minor
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A powerful former North Dakota lawmaker pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.
Joe Adam George: Terror arrests show risk of taking in large numbers of poorly vetted Gazans — National Post
With Canada besieged by soaring antisemitism and Islamist radicalization, the Trudeau government’s decision to offer temporary residence to 5,000 Palestinians is concerning
Antisemitism or Anti-Zionism is on the rise? Does being pissed off about being lied to make people "radicals"? We can't call out bullshit anymore?
Joe Adam George: Terror arrests show risk of taking in large numbers of poorly vetted Gazans — National Post
With Canada besieged by soaring antisemitism and Islamist radicalization, the Trudeau government’s decision to offer temporary residence to 5,000 Palestinians is concerning
A United Nations official who denounced Canada’s temporary foreign worker program as “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” nearly a year ago doubled down on his criticism in a final report, stressing that granting migrant workers permanent resident status is necessary to end ongoing exploitation.
Tomoya Obokata, the UN’s special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, said in September that he was “deeply disturbed by the accounts of exploitation and abuse shared” with him by migrant workers during a two-week fact-finding mission to Canada in August 2023.
A year later, in a final report, Obokata said the “structural precarity for temporary foreign workers would be mitigated by systematically providing workers with a pathway to permanent residence.”
“This would also reflect the fact that, despite their nominally temporary nature, the demand for labour met by the migration programs is permanent, as evinced by the growing numbers of people entering Canada through these programs.”
Demand for temporary foreign workers in Canada has surged in recent years. Employers were given the green light to hire almost 240,000 temporary foreign workers in 2023, according to data from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — more than double the number in 2018.
UN envoy doubles down on criticism that Canada's foreign worker program is a 'breeding ground' for slavery — Toronto Star
United Nations official Tomoya Obokata stressed that providing Canadian workers with a pathway to permanent residence is necessary to end ongoing exploitation.
Muzzies? Hindus? S American Catholics?A United Nations official who denounced Canada’s temporary foreign worker program as “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” nearly a year ago doubled down on his criticism in a final report, stressing that granting migrant workers permanent resident status is necessary to end ongoing exploitation.
Tomoya Obokata, the UN’s special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, said in September that he was “deeply disturbed by the accounts of exploitation and abuse shared” with him by migrant workers during a two-week fact-finding mission to Canada in August 2023.
A year later, in a final report, Obokata said the “structural precarity for temporary foreign workers would be mitigated by systematically providing workers with a pathway to permanent residence.”
“This would also reflect the fact that, despite their nominally temporary nature, the demand for labour met by the migration programs is permanent, as evinced by the growing numbers of people entering Canada through these programs.”
Demand for temporary foreign workers in Canada has surged in recent years. Employers were given the green light to hire almost 240,000 temporary foreign workers in 2023, according to data from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) — more than double the number in 2018.
UN envoy doubles down on criticism that Canada's foreign worker program is a 'breeding ground' for slavery — Toronto Star
United Nations official Tomoya Obokata stressed that providing Canadian workers with a pathway to permanent residence is necessary to end ongoing exploitation.
Its all cool. The AI round up is coming. Youll have to come into North America like cocaine... in a submarine.
While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will employ mass deportations and detention camps for immigrants, if elected, Poilievre has not demonized newcomers.
At the same time, he has said that immigration levels will be “much lower” under a government he leads, particularly in the temporary immigrant categories. “It’s impossible to invite 1.2 million new people to Canada every year when you’re only building 200,000 housing units… Quebec is at breaking point,” he said in an interview with TVA Nouvelles.
As economist Mike Moffatt noted on X last week, the Liberals relaxed restrictions on low-wage temporary workers in April 2022, just 13 days after signing a supply and confidence deal with the NDP, and saw the number of newcomers in that category nearly triple.
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At the same time, he has said that immigration levels will be “much lower” under a government he leads, particularly in the temporary immigrant categories. “It’s impossible to invite 1.2 million new people to Canada every year when you’re only building 200,000 housing units… Quebec is at breaking point,” he said in an interview with TVA Nouvelles.
As economist Mike Moffatt noted on X last week, the Liberals relaxed restrictions on low-wage temporary workers in April 2022, just 13 days after signing a supply and confidence deal with the NDP, and saw the number of newcomers in that category nearly triple.
John Ivison: Can the foundering federal Liberals pull a Kamala out of their hat? — National Post
A repeat of the Kamala effect would require the Liberal party to ease aside its leader and replace him with a candidate who runs on a platform of real change
They can apply for a PR if work is guaranteed for 2 years. For a fee an immigration service will set someone up with job in their network.While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will employ mass deportations and detention camps for immigrants, if elected, Poilievre has not demonized newcomers.
At the same time, he has said that immigration levels will be “much lower” under a government he leads, particularly in the temporary immigrant categories. “It’s impossible to invite 1.2 million new people to Canada every year when you’re only building 200,000 housing units… Quebec is at breaking point,” he said in an interview with TVA Nouvelles.
As economist Mike Moffatt noted on X last week, the Liberals relaxed restrictions on low-wage temporary workers in April 2022, just 13 days after signing a supply and confidence deal with the NDP, and saw the number of newcomers in that category nearly triple.
John Ivison: Can the foundering federal Liberals pull a Kamala out of their hat? — National Post
A repeat of the Kamala effect would require the Liberal party to ease aside its leader and replace him with a candidate who runs on a platform of real change
You mean. . . he's NOT running on a platform of racist codewords and dog whistles?While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he will employ mass deportations and detention camps for immigrants, if elected, Poilievre has not demonized newcomers.
At the same time, he has said that immigration levels will be “much lower” under a government he leads, particularly in the temporary immigrant categories. “It’s impossible to invite 1.2 million new people to Canada every year when you’re only building 200,000 housing units… Quebec is at breaking point,” he said in an interview with TVA Nouvelles.
As economist Mike Moffatt noted on X last week, the Liberals relaxed restrictions on low-wage temporary workers in April 2022, just 13 days after signing a supply and confidence deal with the NDP, and saw the number of newcomers in that category nearly triple.
John Ivison: Can the foundering federal Liberals pull a Kamala out of their hat? — National Post
A repeat of the Kamala effect would require the Liberal party to ease aside its leader and replace him with a candidate who runs on a platform of real change
What the hell's the MATTER with you people?
Illegal immigrant accused of raping woman at knifepoint was jailed for prior sex assault
Author of the article
enette Wilford
Published Aug 13, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Two migrants have been accused of raping a woman at knifepoint at Coney Island in New York, one of whom was released from prison for the sexual assault of another woman.
Daniel Davon-Bonilla, 24, of Nicaragua, allegedly grabbed a 46-year-old woman, threw her to the ground, and held a knife to her throat before raping her on Sunday night under the Riegelmann Boardwalk, the New York Post reported.
His alleged accomplice, Mexican migrant Leovando Moreno, 37, has been accused of hitting the woman’s 34-year-old boyfriend with a pipe when he tried to stop the attack, sources told the outlet.
Davon-Bonilla was arrested for allegedly raping a woman at a Brooklyn migrant shelter, about four months after he is believed to have made his way illegally across U.S. border into Texas in December 2022.
He spent about a year in jail before taking a plea deal that put him back on the streets in June 2024, the Post reported, citing corrections officials and Brooklyn prosecutors.
Davon-Bonilla’s latest alleged victim was living under the boardwalk with her boyfriend when the accused approached her while she was alone.
He allegedly attacked her when she refused his offer of trinkets in exchange for sex.
The woman’s boyfriend arrived during the assault and tried to rescue her before Moreno blindsided him, sources said.
Davon-Bonilla was charged with first-degree rape, second-degree assault, first-degree sexual abuse, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, according to the outlet.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges and is being held without bail.
City Department of Correction officials told the Post that Davon-Bonilla was jailed at Rikers Island from April 4, 2023, until June 24, 2024 — putting him back on the streets less than two months before Sunday’s attack.
“After he spent over a year in jail and following the victim’s request not to testify in any court proceedings, this defendant was offered a plea of time served and court-managed programming,” a spokesman for Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said Monday.
He faces up to seven years in the earlier case for violating the terms of the deal, the spokesman said.
Moreno, who is homeless, was arraigned on charges of second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon for Sunday’s attack.
He also pleaded not guilty and was held on $20,000 cash bail.
Moreno’s lawyer claimed he didn’t know Davon-Bonilla, and said he heard the woman’s screams, saw Davon-Bonilla and the woman’s boyfriend in a scuffle and tried to break up the fight with the pipe he is accused of swinging.
Both men are due back in court on Friday.
It was not clear why Davon-Bonilla, who has no known address, was allowed to remain in the U.S. after he was released from jail in June.
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enette WilfordPublished Aug 13, 2024 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Two migrants have been accused of raping a woman at knifepoint at Coney Island in New York, one of whom was released from prison for the sexual assault of another woman.
Daniel Davon-Bonilla, 24, of Nicaragua, allegedly grabbed a 46-year-old woman, threw her to the ground, and held a knife to her throat before raping her on Sunday night under the Riegelmann Boardwalk, the New York Post reported.
His alleged accomplice, Mexican migrant Leovando Moreno, 37, has been accused of hitting the woman’s 34-year-old boyfriend with a pipe when he tried to stop the attack, sources told the outlet.
Davon-Bonilla was arrested for allegedly raping a woman at a Brooklyn migrant shelter, about four months after he is believed to have made his way illegally across U.S. border into Texas in December 2022.
He spent about a year in jail before taking a plea deal that put him back on the streets in June 2024, the Post reported, citing corrections officials and Brooklyn prosecutors.
Davon-Bonilla’s latest alleged victim was living under the boardwalk with her boyfriend when the accused approached her while she was alone.
He allegedly attacked her when she refused his offer of trinkets in exchange for sex.
The woman’s boyfriend arrived during the assault and tried to rescue her before Moreno blindsided him, sources said.
Davon-Bonilla was charged with first-degree rape, second-degree assault, first-degree sexual abuse, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, according to the outlet.
He pleaded not guilty to the charges and is being held without bail.
City Department of Correction officials told the Post that Davon-Bonilla was jailed at Rikers Island from April 4, 2023, until June 24, 2024 — putting him back on the streets less than two months before Sunday’s attack.
“After he spent over a year in jail and following the victim’s request not to testify in any court proceedings, this defendant was offered a plea of time served and court-managed programming,” a spokesman for Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said Monday.
He faces up to seven years in the earlier case for violating the terms of the deal, the spokesman said.
Moreno, who is homeless, was arraigned on charges of second-degree assault and criminal possession of a weapon for Sunday’s attack.
He also pleaded not guilty and was held on $20,000 cash bail.
Moreno’s lawyer claimed he didn’t know Davon-Bonilla, and said he heard the woman’s screams, saw Davon-Bonilla and the woman’s boyfriend in a scuffle and tried to break up the fight with the pipe he is accused of swinging.
Both men are due back in court on Friday.
It was not clear why Davon-Bonilla, who has no known address, was allowed to remain in the U.S. after he was released from jail in June.
Illegal immigrant accused of raping woman at knifepoint was jailed for prior sex assault
Two migrants were arrested in connection with a rape at Coney Island in New York, one of whom has another sex assault charge.
Trudeau changed foreign workers program at your expense
More than two years ago, the Trudeau Liberals opened up the Temporary Foreign Workers Program in a way that is hurting Canadian workers and their wages.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Aug 14, 2024 • 3 minute read
The Trudeau Liberals are channeling Captain Louis Renault as they react in shock to problems with Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. Movie fans will know Captain Renault as the corrupt police chief in Casablanca.
After Captain Renault barges into Rick’s Cafe — more of a nightclub and casino — Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, walks up and asks on what grounds his establishment is being shut down.
“I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here,” Captain Renault says.
“Your winnings sir,” says a card dealer handing money to Renault, who thanks him and continues his bust.
The Liberals are Captain Renault, guilty of gambling in the illegal casino and now threatening to throw everyone out. It was the Trudeau Liberals who changed the rules to ramp up Canada’s temporary foreign workers program and now they are promising to punish anyone abusing it, using the rules they changed.
“Abuse and misuse of the TFW program must end,” Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said last week.
“Bad actors are taking advantage of people and compromising the program for legitimate businesses. We are putting more reforms in place to stop misuse and fraud from entering the TFW program.”
The number of people coming in under the TFW program has been ramping up for years, especially under the Trudeau Liberals. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who was employment minister in 2015, called this out during a recent news conference.
“Trudeau has destroyed our entire immigration system, and he has expanded our temporary foreign worker program by well over 200% at a time when we’re losing jobs,” Poilievre said during an event at Stelco Steel in Hamilton last Friday.
Poilievre noted that when he was responsible for that program there were only 60,000 people admitted under the TFW program but now that number is near 200,000.
“On top of that, you have international students who are effectively temporary foreign workers who came under the wrong stream.”
There was a time, let’s call it 2014, when Justin Trudeau was leader of the third party in Parliament, that he railed against this program. Trudeau said the Harper government was allowing the program to drive down wages of Canadians.
“The government has allowed the temporary foreign worker program to become a force that drives down wages across the country and takes advantage of vulnerable people from abroad,” Trudeau said in April 2014.
Even as recently as this past April, Trudeau was saying that out of control immigration was hurting wages.
“Increasingly, more and more businesses are relying on temporary foreign workers in a way that is driving down wages in some sectors,” Trudeau said five months ago.
If only he knew someone who could do something about this!
He truly is Captain Renault, shocked that there is gambling going on and pocketing his winnings at the same time.
It was Trudeau who changed the rules in April of 2022 to allow a massive deregulation of the program. Under the changes announced then, seasonal industries could hire under the TFW for the full year while the cap on an employer having only 10% of their workforce come from the TFW program was lifted to 20% in most industries but higher in others.
The feds raised the cap to 30% for manufacturing, food and accommodations, hospitals and nursing homes. They also got rid of a stipulation that if unemployment was above 6% then TFW approval would not be granted.
“This was a deliberate move by the federal government to suppress wage growth for low-income Canadians, and increase the number of temporary workers, who have much weaker labour rights than permanent residents,” Mike Moffat posted on X last week.
Moffat is an academic and self-styled progressive who has advised the Trudeau government and worked for the Canada 2020 think tank that is closely tied to the PM. That’s what makes Moffat’s criticism sting so much for the Liberals.
That and the fact that he pointed out these changes were announced less than two weeks after the coalition deal with the NDP was announced.
The Trudeau Liberals say they are there for the little guy, the middle class and those working hard to join it. If actions speak louder than words then that is clearly not true, by the PM’s own admission, his policies are driving down wages for low-income Canadians.
Now he’s claiming he’s shocked, don’t believe him.
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More than two years ago, the Trudeau Liberals opened up the Temporary Foreign Workers Program in a way that is hurting Canadian workers and their wages.
Author of the article:Brian Lilley
Published Aug 14, 2024 • 3 minute read
The Trudeau Liberals are channeling Captain Louis Renault as they react in shock to problems with Canada’s temporary foreign worker program. Movie fans will know Captain Renault as the corrupt police chief in Casablanca.
After Captain Renault barges into Rick’s Cafe — more of a nightclub and casino — Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, walks up and asks on what grounds his establishment is being shut down.
“I’m shocked, shocked to find out that gambling is going on in here,” Captain Renault says.
“Your winnings sir,” says a card dealer handing money to Renault, who thanks him and continues his bust.
The Liberals are Captain Renault, guilty of gambling in the illegal casino and now threatening to throw everyone out. It was the Trudeau Liberals who changed the rules to ramp up Canada’s temporary foreign workers program and now they are promising to punish anyone abusing it, using the rules they changed.
“Abuse and misuse of the TFW program must end,” Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault said last week.
“Bad actors are taking advantage of people and compromising the program for legitimate businesses. We are putting more reforms in place to stop misuse and fraud from entering the TFW program.”
The number of people coming in under the TFW program has been ramping up for years, especially under the Trudeau Liberals. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who was employment minister in 2015, called this out during a recent news conference.
“Trudeau has destroyed our entire immigration system, and he has expanded our temporary foreign worker program by well over 200% at a time when we’re losing jobs,” Poilievre said during an event at Stelco Steel in Hamilton last Friday.
Poilievre noted that when he was responsible for that program there were only 60,000 people admitted under the TFW program but now that number is near 200,000.
“On top of that, you have international students who are effectively temporary foreign workers who came under the wrong stream.”
There was a time, let’s call it 2014, when Justin Trudeau was leader of the third party in Parliament, that he railed against this program. Trudeau said the Harper government was allowing the program to drive down wages of Canadians.
“The government has allowed the temporary foreign worker program to become a force that drives down wages across the country and takes advantage of vulnerable people from abroad,” Trudeau said in April 2014.
Even as recently as this past April, Trudeau was saying that out of control immigration was hurting wages.
“Increasingly, more and more businesses are relying on temporary foreign workers in a way that is driving down wages in some sectors,” Trudeau said five months ago.
If only he knew someone who could do something about this!
He truly is Captain Renault, shocked that there is gambling going on and pocketing his winnings at the same time.
It was Trudeau who changed the rules in April of 2022 to allow a massive deregulation of the program. Under the changes announced then, seasonal industries could hire under the TFW for the full year while the cap on an employer having only 10% of their workforce come from the TFW program was lifted to 20% in most industries but higher in others.
The feds raised the cap to 30% for manufacturing, food and accommodations, hospitals and nursing homes. They also got rid of a stipulation that if unemployment was above 6% then TFW approval would not be granted.
“This was a deliberate move by the federal government to suppress wage growth for low-income Canadians, and increase the number of temporary workers, who have much weaker labour rights than permanent residents,” Mike Moffat posted on X last week.
Moffat is an academic and self-styled progressive who has advised the Trudeau government and worked for the Canada 2020 think tank that is closely tied to the PM. That’s what makes Moffat’s criticism sting so much for the Liberals.
That and the fact that he pointed out these changes were announced less than two weeks after the coalition deal with the NDP was announced.
The Trudeau Liberals say they are there for the little guy, the middle class and those working hard to join it. If actions speak louder than words then that is clearly not true, by the PM’s own admission, his policies are driving down wages for low-income Canadians.
Now he’s claiming he’s shocked, don’t believe him.
Backgrounder: Temporary Foreign Worker Program Workforce Solutions Road Map - Canada.ca
The Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program Workforce Solutions Road Map contains important measures to help address current job vacancies across many sectors and occupations, better protect temporary foreign workers, and further the Government of Canada’s ongoing efforts to rebuild the TFW Program.
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LILLEY: Trudeau changed foreign workers program at your expense
More than two years ago, just after getting the support of the NDP, Trudeau's Liberals brought in changes that still hurt Canadian workers.