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I can see some value in that. But I can also see how easily that can be gamed. Just like LMIA today. These people will pay "consultants" the wages they need to qualify. Consultant will arrange some employer to pay them the wages they need. I want to see the minimum education requirement...

Is cutting back on student and TFW numbers to 2015 levels that hard? None of this is rocket science. Given multi-year work permits to students completing 1 yr at a strip mall college was also a terrible idea. Very easy for any government to stop. And for all the talk about being beholden to...

Deliciously hilarious. But also sad that this is what politics in the greatest democracy has been reduced to.

If Trump doesn't have consequences and if there's no justice, this will never end. It'll just be a different face.

I listened to the Herle Burly podcast today with Prof. Mike Moffat (housing policy expert and advocate) and Ron Butler (mortgage broker and housing advocate). They pointed all the policy failures that have led to the current situation and suggested we could be heading for Japan or Italy levels...

Telegram is now getting filled up with stories. Easy clue is when their kids stop answering the phones (which are taken away before they deploy). I'd say this news appears to have rattled Russians much more than the Ukraine invasion. Mostly because those dying in Ukraine were mostly seen as...

First choice for me. I don't want to endorse the climate change derniers. But I also don't want to endorse the lot that wants to employ mass immigration as a culture war wedge to help make Galen Weston and Tim Hortons owners richer. Nor do I want to endorse the supposedly socialist party...

There's a lot of terrible policies from the CPC. Like scrapping the CBC. And axing climate policy. On the other hand, they might return sanity to immigration policy. And that will at least take some pressure off housing and social services. On the other hand, the Bank of Canada just...

Lots of pro-Kremlin talking points there. Destroying a ton of infrastructure in Kursk is useful. As is the ability to flank behind Russia's Eastern Grouping. Lastly, it's more than just embarrassing for Putin. Russia is sending literal teenagers (conscripts) to fight the Ukrainians and...

This party is much more likely to take votes from the CPC than the LPC. It's why the CPC has come out so forcefully against it. But also screw the guilting. I don't see the LPC with its insane wage suppression as substantially more virtuous than the CPC. And voting LPC to stop the CPC seems...

A lack of action is also a choice. They kept denying this was even a problem right until they really tanked in the polls. And even now their cuts don't even take them back to pre-Covid and will still need years to pan out. All policy choices they made.

Indian birthrate is already close to replacement. India has a large demographic bulge of young people that is why this government wants to take advantage of it. And despite this, we're seeing immigrant quality declining. This bulge will be less attractive in a decade or two. Africa will be...

Low wage workers will simply create bigger liabilities down the line. This is can kicking, not problem solving.

The LPC hasn't been centrist for a while. Ever since they decided to fish in NDP waters. They should just go ahead and merge with the NDP at this point, cause it's kinda hard to tell the difference, for the average voter. This new party is clearly hoping to fill the space of the old PC party...

Same here. I'm even willing to donate. I really want another alternative. They basically look like the old Progressive Conservatives. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Future_Party They still got lots to do: https://www.ourcanadianfuture.ca/

A centrist party is standing up to take on both the LPC and CPC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-future-party-launches-1.7294230

The army is starving for funds and has a growing maintenance backlog due to budget cuts. This comes despite LPC rhetoric that they are raising defence spending.

They used to not be allowed to work at all and had to show financial self-sufficiency to enter and stay in Canada.

I will never understand why TFWs and Student workers is the hill this government chose to die on. I hope to read some interesting accounts from insiders in the future.

Not quite. To even send out an RFP, Cabinet has to approve your procurement strategy and allocate funds in the budget. Sure the funds are released as necessary with the contract. But they must be allocated before accepting bids.