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PM Justin Trudeau's Canada

We no longer make policy in this country. Everything is just vibes. If we were worried about reducing the regressivity of the HST, we would increase the rebate by $5B, rather than giving a tax break to everyone.

Gotta love the pandering on home heating from a party that claims to care about climate change. But I guess the Liberals deserve that one after their pandering.
 
We no longer make policy in this country. Everything is just vibes. If we were worried about reducing the regressivity of the HST, we would increase the rebate by $5B, rather than giving a tax break to everyone.

I agree (that was my last line in my post).

Its a very clunky proposal which doesn't make much sense to me. Inefficient, splatter-gun policy, poorly targeted.
 
Paywall free: https://archive.is/DEIXa

My expectation is that Trudeau’s government ensure that anyone in the country illegally is removed. And if they are not removed, the TFW/SP numbers be decreased by the number of overstayed visas.
Hopefully there will be some teeth to this and a way of actually tracking exit data (it seems like Canada does not actually do so at the moment).

Because if it's like the UK, then there will be problems in actually enforcing returns.
Around 41% of those who submitted an asylum application between 2010 and 2020, and were refused,had been returned from the UK by June 2022

Around 1.3% of people who arrived by small boat from 2018 to June 2023 were returned from the UKduring that period
 
Hopefully there will be some teeth to this and a way of actually tracking exit data (it seems like Canada does not actually do so at the moment).
Then we must be more careful about tracking the entry data, and choosing those for the TFW and SP programs on their likelihood of returning to their countries of origin once their worker or student permits are over. Control the entry process and then the exit process is easier.
 
Then we must be more careful about tracking the entry data, and choosing those for the TFW and SP programs on their likelihood of returning to their countries of origin once their worker or student permits are over. Control the entry process and then the exit process is easier.

Also FYI, the processing backlog is now 260,000, a magnitude higher than what it was in 2019.

Another issue is the asylum/refugee system which has already been gamed out by immigration lawyers:
- If your visa expires you can apply for asylum(add x years);
- If your asylum claim fails you can apply for an appeal (add x years);
- If your appeal fails and you claim a child during the time you are in Canada, you can apply for PR under the the Humanitarian and Compassionate pathway (add x years);
- Etc. etc.

This sort of system is ill-fitted for the 21st century and its hyper-connectivity (see Roxham Rd and its loophole), and must be reformed.
 
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Rubs the same way as Kamala saying the border must be fixed. Right message, wrong messenger.
I mean it comes off as dishonest (and at best incompetent) when the mess was made under their watch.

Could've, would've, should've...

Trudeau says he could have acted faster on immigration changes, blames ‘bad actors’​

David Baxter, The Canadian Press
Posted November 17, 2024
And of course buried in the lede:
Trudeau says the goal of the government’s immigration reduction is to help stabilize population growth while housing stocks catch up, and then to consider gradually increasing immigration rates once again.
 
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A lot of politics is lately is finding out norms have gone out the window and that no one is beholden to behaving appropriately.
A bit naive to think in this climate that you wouldn't have corporations and premiers abusing the system.
 
Yes, easy mode. No pandemics, no rage farming internet, or brain rotted conspiracy theories being feed to you by billionaires, Canadian media not owned by right wing Americans. Just governments setting up the country so that the next generation would be worse off in every way.
 
Bring back the Chretien-Martin team. Or Even Mulroney. During their terms the country was running well, housing, tuition, groceries and fuel were affordable.
Actually, so many of the problems we have today is because of their can-kicking. They refused to raise CPP substantially to give us room to cut OAS today. Infrastructure and housing investment tanked on their watch. Med school enrollments too. The military rustout also started under Chretien.
 

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