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The same people that talk endlessly about environmental problems (while opposing all existing scalable technologies to address the problems - hydro and nuclear), are also the people that totally dismiss environmental concerns and argue for more population. The number one driver of environmental damage is population, and yet we apparently need a vast increase of it. These are also the same people that talk about a "labor shortage" at the same time as they advocate for the need for a "guaranteed income" for everyone since most people will be left unemployed by automation. There's no consistency or logic or rationality, just a bunch of disjointed emotional feel-good ideas: "Open borders! Cut CO2 emissions (but don't use hydro or nuclear, do it by going vegan)! Robots will do all the work for us so we need free money from the government for everyone! But we need more people! Use all the wealth that's been created to lift people out of poverty! But capitalism (which creates the wealth) is evil! Islam is peace and Western culture is rape culture! Listen to the scientific consensus on climate change! But scientists are in the pockets of big agriculture and they're all lying about GMOs being safe! No religion in the classroom! But the religion of social justice must be incorporated into everything, even math class! We're all about tolerance and inclusiveness! Except of anyone who happens to have a different opinion!"

The labor shortage is a myth, just like the supposed demographic apocalypse. Everyone who's paid attention to anything over the last decade or two knows that the real economic debate is about what the heck will people do as automation takes over more and more jobs, not a "labor shortage".

The extent to which people here want to cover up and dismiss the atrocities going on in South Africa really calls into question their motivations.

The Bush v. Gore SCOTUS decision will live in infamy as an atrocious affront to American democracy. It's been described as amounting to a legalized coup d'etat, a situation proponents of the world's self-proclaimed greatest democracy should ponder.

I am now about to remake our immigration system. Here are a few of my likely policy changes. Immigration numbers will be cut back to 200,000 Family immigration will be eliminated except in humanitarian cases. Investor class immgiration will be eliminated entirely. All potential immmigrants must pass basic language tests given at the embassy or consulate. All potential immigrants must have a job offer for a job which cannot be easily filled by Canadians in order to immigrate to Canada (which is the requirement in the US) The requirement that immigrants attest to their desire to reside in Canada will be reinstated. The period of residency before acquiring citizenship will be raised back to 5 years. All potential immigrants will be interviewed, which will allow an immigration officer to assess their language skills as well as their personal suitability and willingness to adapt and assimilate into Canada. They will also be required to answer, in writing, a series of fairly routine questions related to the profession they claim to be a member of in order to weed out those with fake documents and degrees. They will also be given a version of the 'personality' tests Canadian business routinely use to assess people's values and beliefs to see if they will fit in. In addition for a potential immigrant getting points for language ability, education, job skills, etc., the potential immigrant's spouse will also be able to add points to his score if he/she also has language skills, education and job skills. Canada will prioritize immigration from countries and areas in order to prevent the build-up of ethnic ghettos in Canada. For years Canada has taken a large number of immigrants from certain countries and areas which has supplied a continuing stream of that group to help enlarge and sustain such ethnic communities. Changing the focus of our immigration will allow those ethnic groups to more readily assimilate. This would mean targeting places like South America and Europe which have supplied minimal numbers of immigrants over the past few decades and which, consequently, do not have large ethnic communities here which retain the values and beliefs of their homeland. Every refugee applicant will be kept in custody pending their hearing. Every refugee applicant's story will be checked out by the embassy/consulate in the country where they reside (Which means if you claim to be persecuted because you're gay your family and friends better know about your being gay). Canada will only grant temporary asylum for a perdiod of five years. After which the condition of their country or situation will be reassessed to see if they can return home. Canada will adhere to the UN definition of refugee. This definition does not consider people living in a war torn counry like syrian (except minorities being persecuted) as refugees. Nor does it consider poverty, ie, Hait, to be a justification for asylum claims. Nor would it allow women who claim their husbands beat them to make asylum claims. Immigrants/refugees who have met the residency requirements and wish to apply for citizenship must pass language tests (more than basic) and must demonstrate the efforts they have made to assimilate, as well as having been self-supporting and having no criminal record. (this is the case in most western countries). Citizenship will be automatic only to those born to Canadian citizens. It will not be granted to those who happen to be flying overhead at birth, or to people who come here to give birth, or to visitors or refugees or students (except in the case where the resulting offspring would otherwise be stateless). If refugees become Canadian citizens then any child born to them in Canada automatically becomes a citizen.

There are more people than ever...robots are a reality...but we have an apparent labour shortage. Right....

Nope....vast majority were..."Born in the USA" (like Bruce Springsteen) Then why do you want to deport this alleged Syrian murderer ?

Born in Canada. I bet BC was born in the USA (music plays).

Sure...how many do you want ? JDAM kits too, right ? We're having a BOGO special this month....buy one... get one free !

Twenty-eight year old Syrian refugees murdering 13 year old girls just months into being here is something we should learn to live with. Diversity is our strength...and I feel enriched by this fellow's actions. I know you do, too.

No, they show nothing of the sort. In fact, demographics experts have been clear that immigration cannot do much to change an aging population or a low birth rate. Spouses and children do not come in under the family program but under the skilled immigration program. It's a $4 billion a year drop. I'd call that sizable. Quebec still operates one and there are various provincial nominee programs for investors, as well. So? It needs to be taken at the embassy or consulate which is not currently the case. The US program requires people have a job offer before they can immigrate - not become a TFW. I think Canadian potential immigrants should also need a job offer before they can immigrate. Was not talking about TFWs. Well tough noogies. I say different, and so do Canadians. Then they'll have no problem validating their credentials by answering a few questions, right? I should care... why? My immigration program is not designed to serve foreigners who want what everyone else wants. It's designed to serve the interests of Canada. It's not a social welfare program for the world.

I think the concern is that we were told these people were vetted before they were allowed in. Clearly that is not the case. Very sad that you're trying to make out that this is a Muslim-bashing thing.

Don't they know about all the good Syrian refugees ? I'm sure they will wear Marrisa Shen t-shirts to show their support of the refugee program.

Right. All kids lie. Everything they say is not true. (BTW: that "kid" is a surgical resident - yeah can't trust them, can we?) She was there, you were not, but YOU know exactly what happened. Yeah, sub-Saharan African governments alway report the whole truth and nothing but the truth. You feeble efforts to deflect are pathetic.

You'll have to go to another country to find a headline like Rebel's. Most of our media is pretty much just calling him a Burnaby man. Like a Canadian good ol' boy did it...

https://www.therebel.media/syrian_refugee_charged_in_murder_of_13_year_old_marrisa_shen_but_only_islamophobes_worry_about_canada_s_lax_security_screening Only been here 3 months........

Because statistics show that without immigration, our population cannot handle replacing the baby boomers who are retiring and filling the new jobs that continue to open, which require new skills. Okay. So you are changing your platform? From: Family immigration will be eliminated except in humanitarian cases. To: Family immigration will be eliminated except in humanitarian cases + spouses and children Guess what Argus: You cannot sponsor uncles. As for grandpas and grandmas, the number is less than 20,000 of them each year. That's a tiny little drop in the bucket. Let's leave out the positives of unifying families and the wisdom and education the small number of elders can bring to the children, and talk about the economy. When an elder comes to Canada, more often than not, a parent ends up going back to work and putting in hours towards work and paying taxes. They're also able to provide better economically to their family. You said: Investor class immigration will be eliminated entirely. I said: Federal Investor class has not been running since 2014. The point is very clear. The point is that your knowledge of immigration is lacking. You are basing many of your immigration opinions on outdated and ignorant thoughts and ideas. No. You are wrong. The only English exams Canadian immigration accepts are IELTS and CELPIP. IELTS is a British based, internationally respected language test. CELPIP is a Canadian based English test that can be taken in Canada only. The centres are internationally monitored and the results are consistent in all offices. As for French, TEF is accepted and this is a France based language exam. Yes. That is for hiring TFWs. Exactly what you were talking about. You said: All potential immigrants must have a job offer for a job which cannot be easily filled by Canadians in order to immigrate to Canada (which is the requirement in the US) Potential immigrants are TFWs and you were comparing our process to the U.S. I corrected you by telling you that our process is very strict when it comes to validating job offers. More so than the US'. If you paid attention more, I wouldn't have to explain both the incorrect information you are sharing about immigration and how you're unable to follow the conversation. It used to take an average of 5 years for skilled workers to be processed. Then the backlog continued to balloon and finally the Harper and Jason Kenney scrapped over 300,000 skilled workers who were waiting in line, some of them for over 5 years. One extremely DICK move. Anyway, you're wrong. We shouldn't bring back interviews again. It's an inefficient and very expensive move that brings very little positives to the system. Stop being so afraid of the immigrants. You don't listen. Stop making yourself irrelevant by not following what is being shared with you. I told you already: Education is assessed by a select Canadian assessment organizations, accepted by the immigration department. They only accept credentials from a list of selected few schools that have credibility. They contact the universities and verify the information. The days where you could just print out a fake degree are long gone. It's an asinine idea. It doesn't matter what your fearful, bigoted thoughts are, the reality is that an overwhelming majority of immigrants who come through our system want the basics of what everyone else wants. It is to have security and the platform to succeed for themselves and their children. You need to get out there and engage with "the others" more often. Getting a haircut from the brown guy, does not count. Where are our "large ethnic ghettos"? Quit fear mongering and exaggerating. What's next? You're going to start a thread called: "White genocide in South Africa!"? You mean you didn't know that it's already happening? Or did you mean you wanted something similar to what the Aussies are doing ? Until recently, many people in Canada were not aware that the Canadian government incarcerates thousands of asylum-seekers and migrants each year. This is unsurprising: detention operates mostly out of the public eye. Immigration detention can mean an indefinite prison sentence for people who have not committed crimes. It wasn't until we started learning of the horrors of immigration detention in the U.S., where children were separated from their parents and detained, that we began really looking inward. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) oversees a legal and physical architecture of jails, immigration holding centres and police cells.

Quite the opposite...Canada has made these choices, not me....but Canadian media still moans about them each day. Monster trucks do not have trunks....but the usual American cultural references are always welcomed (and expected).

Agreed. I have confidence that our system of controls are robust enough to survive Doug Ford. I'm also pleased that there's an option to overturn politically biased decisions made by activist judges.

Hyperbole is coming from both sides. "Doug Ford is running a dictatorship."

But none of those 35 indictments have anything to do with Trump and Russian collusion. Hello. All Mueller is doing is being allowed to go after people who worked for Trump or who knew Trump and try to jail them all. As far as I know no one on the democratic side have been sought after or sentenced to any crime by the Mule and sent to jail as yet. Why is that? If anyone thinks that Trump kissed Putin's ass well that should really tell us all that those people have only a quarter of a brain. Look at all the sanctions being put on Putin by Trump? That does not look like Trump is kissing Putin's butt. Hello.

Will be interesting to see what kind of welcome he gets when he's out.

I never said that we should never pay taxes. But we are paying plenty of taxes for programs and agendas that Canadians never asked for but are being forced to pay for. Multiculturalism and foreign aid being two of them. I guess I must be somewhat of a socialist because I do like having free healthcare although I am still paying for healthcare out of my taxes. So, is it really free? I wonder as to how many are there left of those left of center people around and who maybe have had enough of the liberals and Trudeau nonsense. The next election will tell us for sure. I believe the Kennewick story.

The judge - Justice Belobaba - in this ruling is known for being a left-leaning judge. He's been called an "activist." He's the same judge who made the ruling on the Khadr settlement, and had refused to freeze the payment to Khadr. He is an appointee by Liberal PM Paul Martin.

Interesting battle....the loyalists who worship "The Crown" vs. the republicans who stand for governance by "The People".

You seem to forget that it is we the people that should be running Canada, and not politically appointed leftist liberal social justice warrior judges, who in most cases do have their own biases and agendas and who will over ride what the majority of what we the people want or demand. The majority does not get to run or rule Canada anymore. Tiny minorities and radical leftist liberal judges do now get to run Canada. Ford is not being ignorant or a hypocrite. Ford is doing what he told his supporters he was going to do and that is why Ford is the Premier of Ontario and not the judge. It would appear as though this judge is acting and trying to appear as though he is now the Premier of Ontario and what he says will go.

I don't like minority governments. And anyways why have elections when a unelected judge can just shut down the country whenever they feel like it.

The disallowance power originates in the Constitution Act, 1867 (i.e. the BNA Act), which is subsumed in the Canadian constitution alongside the Constitution Act, 1982. A brief synopsis on disallowance, written by Eugene Forsey, is linked below. The power hasn't been used in decades but remains valid. There's widespread misunderstanding that the 1982 Act repealed and replaced the 1867 Act, which it did not. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/disallowance

Ford is not overriding 'charter rights' as the notwithstanding clause is not about overriding the Charter but about the right of a democratically elected Govt. to over ride the selective interpretation of the Charter by un elected and non accountable judges. The province has the right to make changes, the not withstanding clause is there to prevent provincial rights from being trampled by a judge or by federal govt.

Don't care.

According to the charter, Ontario tax payers must fund that catholic church with tax money. According to the charter, we don't actually have freedom of speech, we merely pretend we do. Section 2 of the charter is made ineffective my sections 1 and 33 of the charter. According to the charter, the state recognizes the supremacy of god, and this recognition of the supremacy of god comes before anything, including rule of law. I could go on. Our charter is terrible. Unfortunately, idiots blinded by nationalism pretend it's the best thing in the world, often without having read it.

OK, tell me something about Trump-Russia colllusion that justifies the investigation then Don Jonas. What progress has been made in the last two years? All I see is a lot of dark clouds and no lightning.