afransen
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It was a dog whistle during an election campaign, and it backfired spectacularly.
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PM Mark Carney's Canada
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urbanclient
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I am quite certain he does know a good deal lol.
Westey
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He seems to have done a fair bit wrong for someone who supposedly knows.
When Carney made his famous - Canadians don't use steel, so it's okay to pile carbon taxes on it - comment during the election campaign, I really started to wonder if he was an idiot or whether he thought his voters were idiots.
I have run into quite a few PhD's who are so specialized that they have no breadth of knowledge, and only have a very narrow focus. For Carney, it seems to be avoiding paying taxes for his companies and now as funneling taxpayers money to his companies.
At the time, I thought - Carney had the resume to get the job interview, but he failed the interview.
I actually think Carney could be an ok PM, but that is not why he was recruited for the job and not what was required of him.
urbanclient
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Fair... but politicians playing dumb to advance special interest groups... a tale as old as time.
Bayer
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Hey, that's my home town! Well, from ages 7 to 19. Never been to Ben's though because poutine is junk food. (Well, what did you think it was?)
Fine…. a Carney McDs crossover.
Mark Carney serves poutine in Quebec: 'I'm a bit like Trump. Trump at McDonald's'
Liberal leader put to work during campaign whistlestop at well-known takeout in Granby, Que.ca.news.yahoo.com
afransen
Senior Member
So you instead supported the part time call centre operator who took a decade to finish a BA from University of Calgary and said that cryptocurrencies were a good store of value.
picard102
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Didn't we just cut the space program budget? Is this going to be more money flowing to a private company, or will the crown actually own this spaceport?-MO-10-MINO_GENERIC_WEB_CARDS_TEMPLATE_NEWS-RELEASE-TITLE_EN.jpg)
Minister MacKinnon announces sovereign space launch capabilities through the Canadian Space Launch Act
Canada reached the moon but still lacks its own way to space. Canada is the only country in the G7 that does not have space launch capabilities and must rely on foreign countries, most often the United States, to reach orbit. In a more uncertain and competitive world, Canada cannot rely on...www.canada.ca
Minister MacKinnon announces sovereign space launch capabilities through the Canadian Space Launch Act
picard102
Senior Member
Not just Harper, Alberta and Ontario were pushing the federal government to bring in more people. Conservative governments love to suppress wages.
picard102
Senior Member
The relationship is already destroyed. It's his way of making PP look even more unimportant than he is.
CMQSD402F9011
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Shouldn’t it be time to reform the criminal record checks? I’ve seen many people that would say that criminal records are barriers to those after leaving prison. And why wouldn’t Canada take a page from Norway or Sweden then?
urbanclient
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This is mostly false on many levels. In general, conservative governments suppressing wages is more or less what Bernie said in my previous post. However, in the recent Canadian case, that's not very true.
Harper made it easier to get TFWs in 2006/7, but virtually all of immigration-driven growth under Harper came from PR admissions.
Under Trudeau it came from temporary visas like IMP, student visas, student-work visas, which are federal programs, see post on previous page. Much more likely to be low wage and wage suppressive too.
Harper tightened the TFW system in 2013 and 2014 due to backlash from a April 2012 loosening that set 15% below prevailing wage for high skilled jobs and 5% below prevailing wage for low skilled jobs. In April 2013, they reinstated the prevailing wage requirement.
I won't repeat what happened after the 2015 election again, but the result is obvious.
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In 2007, Alberta said they want 10% of PRs, and that more PR nominations would help skilled labour shortages. The Provincial Nominee Program.
In 2014 and 2017, the Ontario Liberals similarly pushed for more skilled PRs.
Ontario Newsroom
news.ontario.ca
A New Direction: Ontario’s Immigration Strategy
A new strategy for selecting, helping and welcoming immigrants to our province.
Permanent admissions during Harper went from 250,000 in 2006 to 272,000 in 2015.
More to the point, if Harper loosening TFW rules spiked immigration like you two are implying, why was net migration was flat from 2000 through 2015?
Net migration went up 65% in the first year of Trudeau on a year-to-year basis.
| Year | PR admissions (Immigrants) | Net migration |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 256,754 | 142,805 |
| 1994 | 224,395 | 152,213 |
| 1995 | 212,875 | 161,792 |
| 1996 | 226,061 | 166,553 |
| 1997 | 216,034 | 154,022 |
| 1998 | 174,184 | 117,263 |
| 1999 | 189,971 | 158,015 |
| 2000 | 227,429 | 198,753 |
| 2001 | 250,638 | 238,533 |
| 2002 | 229,049 | 212,500 |
| 2003 | 221,349 | 194,416 |
| 2004 | 235,859 | 194,999 |
| 2005 | 262,246 | 212,969 |
| 2006 | 251,649 | 216,500 |
| 2007 | 236,763 | 229,266 |
| 2008 | 247,262 | 266,253 |
| 2009 | 252,218 | 267,064 |
| 2010 | 280,739 | 250,479 |
| 2011 | 248,735 | 240,605 |
| 2012 | 257,825 | 253,606 |
| 2013 | 259,046 | 260,580 |
| 2014 | 260,308 | 222,322 |
| 2015 | 271,867 | 205,971 |
| 2016 | 296,385 | 328,335 |
| 2017 | 286,537 | 380,739 |
| 2018 | 321,054 | 438,056 |
| 2019 | 341,174 | 495,164 |
| 2020 | 184,594 | 69,293 |
| 2021 | 406,046 | 444,372 |
| 2022 | 437,612 | 917,753 |
| 2023 | 471,817 | 1,196,843 |
| 2024 | 483,654 | 815,808 |
| 2025 | 393,752 | -133,642 |
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I wonder why the CBC didn't cover LMIA-less IMP visas under Trudeau?
2013: "Temporary foreign workers hired in areas with EI claimants" was a big knock against the Conservatives
Hiring foreign workers on visas (IMP, student visas, student-work visas, and TFWs) has been commonplace despite EI claimants for a decade, it's just accepted practice now.
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81-717
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^1 out of 9?? Seems awfully high. Obviously not everyone with a criminal record is a violent murderer, but still.