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Ontario Teachers' Union makes it clear that the job of a teacher is to indoctrinate children into the gender ideology of the far left at every opportunity. https://www.junonews.com/p/exclusive-ontario-teachers-union

Canada's government is the most secretive in the Western world, as I've said before. Not just the federal government, but the provinces and cities. It is literally unthinkable that they would ever give us information like this.

Then they need to pay enough to attract workers. If you can't pay enough to attract workers while still making a profit, then go into some other line of business, because society doesn't want what you're doing enough to pay for it. They're poor. I can pretty much guarantee you nobody working for Uber Eats owns a home, or ever will. Capitalism will decide which businesses survive based on how much society wants their goods or services. If it doesn't want them enough that those businesses can afford to pay a suitable salary to attract workers and still profit, then so be it. Creative destruction. We can not grow indefinitely. So there is going to have to be an equilibrium established. Japan's population has been in decline for the last ten years and you know what, it's still a pretty darn good place to live. Do you want a DEI hire as your heart surgeon? I didn't vote for Trump, and wouldn't have even if I could have. What you don't seem to understand is that Trump is not the cause but the result. You refuse to address the cause and get angry at the result. That makes no sense.

Well, every member of the Liberal Party of Canada did, along with everyone who voted for them four straight times.

Recognizing the rights of someone else to a job they didn't earn? That's not a right, comrade.

Uhm, yeah. Or make it myself. It's doable. Try it. If all Uber eats does is provide employment for people who aren't Canadians then it's no good to this country. They're not buying much so not paying much, so the GST refunds eliminate a big chunk of that. I didn't say they were 'bilking' but they aren't paying for it, so I have to. That includes their healthcare, educating any children they have, and paying for all the services from roads to fire that they pay nothing to. Service industries are easily substitutable. If some die, the money will go elsewhere and those other ones will employ more people. The economy doesn't care about service industry companies. Marxism, in other words. No, Trump is the mouthpiece for us on this subject. We're not echoing him. He's echoing us.

This might shock you, but I couldn't care less what Uber Eats thinks. And if they can't find drivers and go bankrupt that will cause me not a second of sadness. Just not in Canada. What is their fair share of taxes? From what even Trudeau said, just about half the population pays no income tax at all. They might pay sales tax, but they get GST refunds. They used to get carbon tax refunds, too. I guarantee you that none of these people is paying nearly as much as they take from the government in services and benefits. Small businesses, including those in big cities hiring foreign workers? If you want to fund activist and lobby groups, YOU fund them. I want to fund health care instead. Cite? Evidence? It's about hiring and promoting people who aren't good enough to make it on merit. The problem with you people on the Left is you're so blind to what's been going on that the only time you ever hear of anything is when Trump talks about it. But Trump has no new ideas. He just takes what people have been complaining about and runs with it. He didn't invent the resentment about colleges and universities refusing to hire anyone but social justice activists or slanting their rules and courses to the far left. Nor are those talking about it here imitating Trump. We've been talking about it for years. That you would suggest this is us 'being political' says to me that you think everything that's taught from the perspective of the far left is oky-doky, and only those who want to pull that narrative further to the centre are wrong. You probably support freedom of speech too - as long as it's not speech you disagree with.

There is no one single answer. But if we start bringing in highly skilled immigrants who can command above-average wages instead of goat herders to work for Uber Eats, that will be a helluva good start. If companies can't get dirt-cheap labour anymore, they're going to have to invest in better technology. That will help improve productivity, too. If we stop growing our underclass, who use huge amounts of expensive government services but pay virtually nothing back, we can have lower taxes, and that will improve productivity. If we stop pouring billions into corporate welfare to prop up loser companies, and stop dispensing billions more to Liberal party-linked cultural, ethnic, racial, poverty, environmental, gender, disability, and artistic organizations that will help too. Eliminate huge reams of time-wasting regulations to get business going, especially natural resources, to lessen delays and to lower the cost of maintaining the records and forms and reporting that goes with those regulations. Get rid of DEI entirely, stop hiring and promoting people based on identity. Stop directing science and technology grants based on identity and DEI and do it on the basis of what such science or technology can do for our economy. Stop all grants and money going to colleges and universities unless they clean up their act and start teaching courses needed for our economy, run by politically neutral teachers.

Gee, I wonder if the huge immigration numbers we've had could be at all related to this. I wouldn't think that importing millions of poor, unskilled third-world people would decrease our national wealth, but what do I know?!

The people in all of Canada's provinces earn lower wages than the people in all US states.

You gave me your feelings. The world doesn't operate on feelings. We had the greatest influx of people ever and what did that do for our economy? The greatest fall in GDP per capita since the great depression. Do you understand that increasing our GDP is utterly meaningless if GDP per capita falls?

Canada's GDP per person in the last five years fell more than at any time since the great depression.

LOL When you're reduced to throwing out half-baked pejoratives that make no sense, you've lost any semblance of credibility.

Coming from the guy who said, "I don't pay any attention to economists. I know what my gut tells me." Harper didn't touch immigration because he didn't want to risk the instant howls of 'racism' he would have gotten if he lowered it. BTW, Trudeau took office in 2015. The last year of Harper's immigration was the 2014-2015 and there were 240k. So virtually the same. No big raise. Suuuuure it is. Because your gut tells you so.

Massive forgery and fraud use of Canadian visas by immigrant smuggling gangs. The number of human smuggling cases opened by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is set to hit a record high over the previous five years. CBSA data shows it opened 70 cases linked to human smuggling as of mid-August, an average of nearly 10 a month compared to only 2.5 a month in 2021. That’s a 280 per cent increase. Asylum claims surged by 523 per cent between January and July this year at a border crossing south of Montreal — the same area where online smuggling advertisers told IJB reporters they could safely transport clients south across the border. Inside the sprawling human smuggling network operating online | National Post

It's so charmingly naive to run into someone who thinks our immigration system has any purpose related to our economy other than to mask its collapse. The only 'consultations' that go on are between the Liberals and their supporters in various ethnic voting blocs about how many new immigrants from THEIR group the Liberals will bring in if they can wrangle X number of votes at election time. To be clear, none of the decisions taken about who and how many to bring in are related to the economy. Our immigration system stopped having anything to do with our economic well-being decades ago. It only serves the political interests of the party in power now.

LOl. Because York has such high standards!

More fantastic use of our taxpayer funds to that centre of academic excellence, York University! https://www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/07/30/5-7m-in-sshrc-funding-for-yorks-transformative-social-impact-research/

An export terminal in Quebec is 'not in the national interest' the liberals say, even though the Quebec government was okay with it, and there were commercial interests interested in building one. https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/environment/quebec-lng-proposal-not-of-national-interest-at-this-point-says-federal-minister/article_debf1c08-5185-59b4-919b-838bf26f5990.html