Voters have had it with his narcissism, piety, double standards, entitlement, flexible ethics and lack of moral clarity. Staying on would likely produce an election defeat so crushing it would take a generation for the Liberals to recover or even lead to a merger with the NDP.
"He haunts us still," began a famous biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Although Justin Trudeau will soon be yesterday's news, his legacy will haunt the Liberals' political future, possibly for decades.
In the near term, there will be distressing memories of: relative and even absolute economic decline, out-of-control spending, intrusive regulations, high taxes, massive indebtedness, democratic scandals, gross incompetence, divisive social policies, inane woke ideology, hostility to vast energy resources, a tattered international reputation, rising crime rates, excessive immigration and compromised national security. Unless the Liberals can credibly alter course on this litany of failures, changing the leader won't be enough. So far there is no indication they will.
It will be hard for anyone who served with Trudeau to escape his track record. Mark Carney presumably would try, but since September he has chaired the "Leader's Task Force on Economic Growth" and before that he advised privately for some time — without any discernible change in policies to deal with declining productivity or profligate spending. No doubt he has his own specific ideas, but he has not been critical of Trudeau's overall fiscal approach and is totally in synch with the climate alarmism that has cost the country hundreds of billions of dollars in both direct expenditures and opportunity costs.
Another outsider, former B.C. premier Christy Clark, has the advantage of distance and might well appeal to the few "Blue Grits" left in the party. After all, she seriously considered running for the Conservative leadership in 2020 before deciding her French was "too rusty."
Beyond the next election, the Liberals need to accept that their collapse in popularity is not a personality problem or part of a global phenomenon of voters throwing out elected governments. As in the U.S., pocketbook issues are a major cause of voter frustration, especially high prices, tax hikes, lagging wages and unaffordable housing. There is also a chasm between Liberal elitists and the public on cultural issues. People are fed up with identity politics, denigration of Canada's proud history, men participating in sports, transitioning teenage girls and other fringe fetishes.
To have any chance of electoral survival over the longer term, the Liberals need to fundamentally change direction from the left to the centre, which is where most Canadians stand and closer to where economic prosperity lies. That means embrace fiscal responsibility, reduce the reach of government, eliminate excessive regulations, bring down personal and corporate taxes and embrace the enormous potential of natural resource development.
Quoterelative and even absolute economic decline, out-of-control spending, intrusive regulations, high taxes, massive indebtedness, democratic scandals, gross incompetence, divisive social policies, inane woke ideology, hostility to vast energy resources, a tattered international reputation, rising crime rates, excessive immigration and compromised national security.
It will take us a long time to dig ourselves out from the destruction Trudeau left behind.
Quote from: Brent on January 01, 2025, 03:53:16 PMIt will take us a long time to dig ourselves out from the destruction Trudeau left behind.
Life will improve under old Pierre. No question about that. But like the op says, Justine did so much damage to this country. We aint going back to where we were in 2014 in just one Conservative term. He has to win two majority elections.
For the better part of two years, Trudeau and his Cabinet have been arguing that their drop in the polls is only a "comms" problem — a failure of communication. If they could simply tell their story better, Canadians would come to appreciate all the good things this government has done for them.
This is utterly delusional, but it is the narrative the Liberals have been spinning to reassure themselves that they are really still Canada's greatest hope.
It is also one of the main reasons the Liberals are in favour of a law that permits censors they appoint to control messages on the internet. They genuinely believe they are victims of a grand conspiracy to prevent all their goodness from being shown to the public. Those who disagree with them have to be suppressed so their magnificence can shine through.
If Trudeau somehow manages to remain in his job until he can no longer avoid facing voters in October 2025, his party is done.
There is no way Justin Trudeau will win another election. In his last win in 2021, his party received the lowest percentage of the popular vote of any government in our history. Does anyone really imagine he could match that pathetic result today?
This will be magnified if the already despised Trudeau comes back in January and prorogues Parliament to stall any chance of him or his government being forced out. Using such an arbitrary strategy to upend democracy would plunge him and his party even further down in the polls.
Already, major polls have the Liberals at between 15% and 21%. It's not hard to imagine prorogation pushing that into the low teens or even single digits.
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If we still had a steady hand like Harper guiding this country we would not have emigrated.
It boggles the mind how much and how fast Canada has gone down hill under True Dope.
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The number of people who said they felt "very proud" to be Canadian had dropped to a paltry 34 per cent today from 78 per cent in 1985 according to an Angus Reid survey.
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"The government has squandered our fiscal advantage, hollowed out our military, shattered our immigration system and shown little interest in our anemic productivity while economic, geopolitical and security threats to Canada rise to Defcon levels," says Kevin Lynch in a piece penned for the Globe and Mail.
Lynch, a highly respected former clerk of the Privy Council and former vice-chair of BMO Financial Group, goes on to say that Trudeau's weaknesses have damaged us internationally.
"The global coverage of our imploding government is hardly reassuring for allies or investors. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is drawn to weakness like a lion in the Serengeti. In an election with the Liberals led by Mr. Trudeau, it is quite possible the Bloc could become the Official Opposition and, with the Parti Quebecois leading in the polls provincially, Quebec could face another sovereignty referendum."
It's a scathing indictment of Trudeau's nine years in power. Lynch also slams what he calls the "non-functioning" House of Commons. For the past few months, Parliament has been deadlocked by the government's refusal to produce documents related to Sustainable Development Technology Canada, an agency that doled out grants to companies promoting environmental sustainability.
Dubbed a "Green Slush Fund," the Conservatives claim $400 million was handed out with little accountability. They want the records. The government has balked. And Parliament has hit an impasse.
"The non-functioning House of Commons — the core institution of our democracy — bears a striking resemblance to Canada Post, which Canadians barely noticed was on strike," Lynch says. Important legislation that would tighten national security, secure our borders, crack down on drug smuggling and improve anti-money laundering measures can't be passed as long as lawmakers are at loggerheads.
True Dope will be leaving, but not really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKUPVdROxL4
If Trudeau gave a damn about anyone but himself he would call an election now. We are facing the biggest potential economic threat since Trudeau was first elected almost a decade ago. We cannot have a non sitting parliament with a useless acting pm flying all over the world for leaisure.
Quote from: DKG on January 06, 2025, 09:05:39 AMIf Trudeau gave a damn about anyone but himself he would call an election now. We are facing the biggest potential economic threat since Trudeau was first elected almost a decade ago. We cannot have a non sitting parliament with a useless acting pm flying all over the world for leaisure.
We won't have a government when Donald Trump is inaugurated two weeks from today.
Trudeau will do anything to avoid the democratic will of the electorate.
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Trudeau's resignation, after putting himself before his country, comes far too late to fix the enormous political and economic damage he has caused Canada.
Because of his arrogance and narcissism, there are no good options for Canada going forward at a time when we're under threat of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump imposing a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods, following his Jan. 20 inauguration.
At a time when Canadians need a strong, united and competent federal government to counter this threat, what we have is a governing political party in chaos, its members more concerned with their political futures than the good of the nation.
I give zero credit to Liberal MPs who stood behind Trudeau while he made himself the dominant political story — would he stay or would he go? In Ottawa, typical of the drama queen he always has been.
Their widespread calls for Trudeau to quit came only when the polls showed the Liberals were in danger of being obliterated in an election, were he to remain as their leader.
Another enabler of Trudeau's antics was NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, who spent months denouncing the Liberals in the morning before propping up their minority government in the afternoon.
Similar to the Liberal caucus, by the time Singh joined the growing calls for Trudeau to resign, it came far too late to undo the damage his support of Trudeau already had caused.
The head of First Nations called Trudeau the best pm for reconciliation. Has he ever stepped foot on a reserve since Trudeau became pm.
Justine has changed his party as much as Trump changed the GOP.
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Trudeau has put us on an Argentina trajectory. Higher taxes, higher debt, hiring too many federal civil servants, and regulating investment out of Canada. All of this has lead to stagnant productivity and wages and lower living standards.
Trudeau's carbon tax should be tucked under his arm while he doesn't let the door hit him on the way out.
The carbon tax can be slayed on Wednesday during the Liberal party's emergency caucus meeting.
Caucus finally rose up and finally forced the prime minister to face the reality that he can't get re-elected.
But that's only half of the job.
The problem isn't just one person. It's the policies. And Trudeau's trademark carbon tax is one of his biggest failures. Replacing the PM while keeping the carbon tax is like switching the blackjack dealer while still facing a stacked deck.
Hardworking people have been telling Liberal and NDP MPs they can't afford the carbon tax, and it's unfair to be punished for driving to work, heating homes or buying food.
They know the carbon tax adds about $13 to the cost of filling a minivan and about $20 extra to fill a pickup. They know the carbon tax will cost long-haul truckers about $2 billion in 2025, and they know it will cost farmers $1 billion during the next five years.
They know Canada misses its emissions targets, even with the carbon tax.
Get rid of it before it goes up on April 1.
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The responsible fiscal approach of the Chretien/Martin years are the polar opposite of what Trudeau has done to Canada.
Trudeau reverses Chrétien's legacy by rapidly expanding federal bureaucracy
Over the next weeks and months, there will be much discussion about Justin Trudeau's legacy as prime minister. To provide some context, it's worth comparing Trudeau's fiscal record with that of another long-serving Liberal prime minister — Jean Chrétien.
In the early 1990s, Canada's federal finances were in shambles. Thanks to years of large budget deficits (and high interest rates), debt interest payments were consuming one-third of all federal revenue and the country stood at the brink of a full-blown fiscal crisis. Paul Martin, Chrétien's finance minister, recognized the gravity of the threat and famously promised to eliminate the deficit "come hell or high water." And that's exactly what the Chrétien government did, thanks primarily to reductions in federal spending.
How'd they do it?
The government launched a program review, which examined all dimensions of spending in search of savings. The review led to a substantial reduction in federal government employment, which shrunk by nearly 15%. While there were many components to the federal reforms of the 1990s, this reduction in the size of the federal bureaucracy clearly helped Chrétien and Martin eliminate the federal deficit.
Fast-forward to the present day and Trudeau, who does not share his Liberal predecessors' commitment to balanced budgets. Federal government employment has increased rapidly in recent years, with the Trudeau government adding more bureaucrats (in absolute and percentage terms) than were reduced during the Chrétien/Martin reform era.
Specifically, from 2015/16 to 2022/23, federal government employment (as measured in full-time equivalents) increased by 26.1%. By comparison, the Canadian population increased by 9.1% over the same period.
Just as the reduction in federal employment contributed to the deficit reduction in the 1990s, the growth in federal employment has helped fuel the Trudeau government's unending string of budget deficits since 2015/16. Incidentally, if during its nine years in power the Trudeau government had simply held the rate of growth in federal employment to the rate of population growth, federal spending would be $7.5 billion lower than it is today.
According to the Trudeau government's latest projections, the federal deficit will reach an eye-popping $62 billion this fiscal year. And thanks to years of record-high spending under Trudeau, total federal debt will eclipse $2.2 trillion. Consequently, the federal government will spend $53.7 billion this year on debt interest payments — or $1,301 per Canadian.
Canadian history is clear — it's difficult to predict the policy orientation of any premier or prime minister based on their political stripe. Prime ministers Chrétien and Trudeau prove this point. Chrétien reduced federal employment with an eye on eliminating the federal deficit. Trudeau reversed this legacy by rapidly growing the federal bureaucracy. This is one important reason for the divergent fiscal outcomes between the two governments.
Under Chrétien, Canadians saw a string of balanced budgets. Under Trudeau, they saw an unending series of deficits and massive debt accumulation, which Canadians must pay for today and for many years to come.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-trudeau-reverses-chretiens-legacy-by-rapidly-expanding-federal-bureaucracy
After nine years of True Dope, Canadians have lost 41% of their wealth. 25% of Canadians live in poverty.
He has the worst record of any Canadian PM.
Since Trudeau formed government, most middle-income families face a higher tax burden than before, largely due to the elimination of key tax credits, making life more expensive despite Trudeau's claims to the contrary.
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The next Liberal Party leader is going to get an ass whooping.
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I only wish the Democrats in this country would suffer the same fate as the Liberals.
Quote from: Prof Emeritus at Fawk U on January 11, 2025, 08:32:22 PMI only wish the Democrats in this country would suffer the same fate as the Liberals.
You just need to have a dictator like Trudeau in power for a decade, censorship, and your living standards cut reduced by forty percent and you will get your wish.
Quote from: DKG on January 12, 2025, 06:42:48 AMYou just need to have a dictator like Trudeau in power for a decade, censorship, and your living standards cut reduced by forty percent and you will get your wish.
In other words, careful what I wish for.
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Conrad Black wrote this in the National Post.
By the principal yardstick of performance: comparative per capita income, Canada has tumbled from approximately 85 per cent of the standard of living of the United States, the most prosperous of the large national economies, to about 60 per cent.
Canada has suffered severe net outflows of capital throughout the Trudeau years, dangerous accretions in the federal deficit, and an unsustainable increase in the number of public sector employees to more than ten percent of the entire population.
It is good that the Canadian population has now passed 40 million, but this has not been accompanied by an adequately increased provision of housing and Canadians of modest incomes have suffered severe increases in the cost of shelter and other necessities and their rightful protestations have too often been falsely dismissed as racially biased.
Almost the entire Trudeau policy focus has been in three areas.
1. There has been an insane exaggeration of what is actually known about climate change, leading to a self-destructive war on the oil and gas industries, and needless increases in the cost of living in pursuit of a will o' the wisp of fossil fuel use.
2. The government's ambition for reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is commendable but the $5.7 billion that has been pledged to reparations is excessive and much of it has been unwise, as well as unjustified. There is still no comprehensive policy to improve the lives of Indigenous people, but in its self-flagellating effusion, the regime accepted that Canada is a genocidal country alongside Nazi Germany, the Turks in Armenia, Pol Pot's Kampuchea, and Rwanda.
This is a blood libel on all English and French Canadians.
3. And there has been a nonsensical obsession with matters of gender which has made us an international laughing stock and driven our most distinguished citizen, Jordan Peterson, out of the country.
Everything is slathered in nauseating wokeism and the federal government has done absolutely nothing to protect the suppressed rights of English-speaking people in Quebec.
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The Liberals are totally demoralized and defeated. They are accepting that we're getting rid of the carbon tax and there's nothing they can do about it.
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The carbon tax will soon be abolished, and Canadians will finally be able to leave this disastrous policy behind.
THANK YOU to every single Canadian who fought tirelessly for this!
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Canadians aren't convinced by Ottawa's 2035 electric vehicle mandate. Less than a quarter plan to buy an electric car next and most see the 2035 ban on conventional vehicles as unrealistic. Ottawa must scrap it.
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We have had a lot of new regulations under Chairman Justine.
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Trudeau got the result from this bs report that he paid for with our money.
QuoteNo 'traitors' in Parliament, but more steps needed to counter interference: report
OTTAWA — A federal inquiry has found no evidence there are "traitors" in Parliament conspiring with foreign states, dispelling suggestions to the contrary that alarmed the public.
In her final report released Tuesday, inquiry Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue concludes that while the threat of foreign interference is real, Canada's democratic institutions have held up well against the dangers.
Hogue said she saw no indication the overall results of recent federal elections were altered by a foreign actor and she identified only a small number of ridings where interference may have had some effect.
She praised the dedication and competence of many public servants, but also pointed to shortcomings in government efforts to fend off foreign meddling.
Hogue found that the government sometimes reacted too slowly and that information did not always flow properly to policy-makers.
The report makes more that four dozen recommendations to improve federal preparedness, foster transparency, shore up electoral integrity and counter threats against diaspora communities.
Hogue calls on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to clearly flag reports it views as particularly relevant for senior decision-makers.
She also calls on Ottawa to develop a whole-of-government foreign interference strategy, encourage political party leaders to obtain top secret-level security clearances, and consider creating a new agency to monitor online spaces for misinformation and disinformation.
"In my view it is no exaggeration to say that at this juncture, information manipulation (whether foreign or not) poses the single biggest risk to our democracy," the report says. "It is an existential threat."
https://www.msn.com/en-ca?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591
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Quote from: Brent on January 28, 2025, 01:33:40 PMTrudeau got the result from this bs report that he paid for with our money.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591
According to a CSIS report, there were eleven candidates "wiottingly working for the People's Republic of China" in the last federal Canadian election.
But, this new report says there is "no evidence of traitors" in our government.
The report was written for the Liberal Party.
This is whatr Trump demands Canada do something about or there will be tariffs.
Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as 'no-shows' by Canadian schools
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-international-students-school-attendance-data/?utm_source=PaidSocial&utm_medium=FacebookAd&utm_campaign=traffic_mkt&utm_term=SCL&utm_content=keywee-loyaltyscore&utm_id=1&kwp_0=2446308&fbclid=IwY2xjawIJCNFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeKWMZv5ACeSkD4I8bnoczS7kCYn4aN2-mLmv0rA6eBVjMYDZzeIc5429A_aem_SHIZhntJHV4cCs_RbjWZRA
Close to 50,000 international students who received study permits to come to Canada were reported as "no-shows" at the colleges and universities where they were supposed to be taking their courses, according to government figures for two months last spring.
Numbers obtained by The Globe and Mail show that the non-compliant students made up 6.9 per cent of the total number of international students recorded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Universities and colleges are required by the immigration department to report twice a year on whether international students are enrolled and going to class in compliance with their study permits.
The International Student Compliance Regime, implemented in 2014, was designed to help spot bogus students and assist provinces in identifying questionable schools.
Table with 7 columns and 146 rows. Currently displaying rows 1 to 20. Including 1 sticky rows. Sorted descending by column "Non-Compliant"
Country of origin Compliant Non-Compliant Not Reported * Compliant rate Non-compliant rate Not-reported rate
Overall 644,349 49,676 23,514 89.8% 6.9% 3.3%
India 327,646 19,582 12,553 91.1% 5.4% 3.5%
China 62,519 4,279 466 93.0% 6.4% 0.7%
Nigeria 30,920 3,902 1,675 84.7% 10.7% 4.6%
Ghana 5,881 2,712 139 67.4% 31.1% 1.6%
Iran 14,039 1,848 88 87.9% 11.6% 0.6%
Democratic Rep. of Congo 2,176 1,166 7 65.0% 34.8% 0.2%
Bangladesh 11,948 984 157 91.3% 7.5% 1.2%
Vietnam 9,573 912 299 88.8% 8.5% 2.8%
Rwanda 840 802 24 50.4% 48.1% 1.4%
Philippines 28,373 688 2,078 91.1% 2.2% 6.7%
Algeria 2,133 676 4 75.8% 24.0% 0.1%
Mexico 10,084 583 112 93.6% 5.4% 1.0%
Cameroon 1,952 571 16 76.9% 22.5% 0.6%
Korea, South 7,291 552 230 90.3% 6.8% 2.8%
Jordan 1,127 509 118 64.3% 29.0% 6.7%
Nepal 17,024 469 2,659 84.5% 2.3% 13.2%
Colombia 7,646 465 428 89.5% 5.4% 5.0%
Pakistan 5,873 433 136 91.2% 6.7% 2.1%
Turkey 3,269 422 88 86.5% 11.2% 2.3%
* The number of students that colleges and universities did not report.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL Source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
In March and April of 2024, colleges and universities reported to IRCC on students from 144 countries. The top 10 countries of student origin with the greatest number of "no-shows" that spring had widely ranging non-compliance rates.
They included 2.2 per cent for Philippines (representing 688 no-show students); 6.4 per cent for China (4,279 no-shows); 11.6 per cent for Iran (1,848 no-shows); and 48.1 per cent for Rwanda (802 no-shows).
Henry Lotin, a former federal economist and expert on immigration, said one way to dampen abuse of the system would be to require international students to pay fees upfront before coming to Canada.
Of the total no-shows, almost 20,000 from India – 5.4 per cent of the total number of Indian students tracked by IRCC – were reported as non-compliant with their student visas and not attending schools where they were meant to be studying.
Indian law-enforcement officials said last month that they are investigating alleged links between dozens of colleges in Canada taking in international students and two "entities" in India alleged to be involved in illegally transporting people across the Canada-U.S. border. Instead of studying in Canada, the students allegedly crossed the border illegally into the United States.
The RCMP said in a statement that it has "reached out to India through its International Policing Liaison Officers to seek additional information on investigations."
Quote from: Herman on January 30, 2025, 08:41:29 PMThis is whatr Trump demands Canada do something about or there will be tariffs.
Nearly 50,000 foreign students listed as 'no-shows' by Canadian schools
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-international-students-school-attendance-data/?utm_source=PaidSocial&utm_medium=FacebookAd&utm_campaign=traffic_mkt&utm_term=SCL&utm_content=keywee-loyaltyscore&utm_id=1&kwp_0=2446308&fbclid=IwY2xjawIJCNFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeKWMZv5ACeSkD4I8bnoczS7kCYn4aN2-mLmv0rA6eBVjMYDZzeIc5429A_aem_SHIZhntJHV4cCs_RbjWZRA
Close to 50,000 international students who received study permits to come to Canada were reported as "no-shows" at the colleges and universities where they were supposed to be taking their courses, according to government figures for two months last spring.
Numbers obtained by The Globe and Mail show that the non-compliant students made up 6.9 per cent of the total number of international students recorded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Universities and colleges are required by the immigration department to report twice a year on whether international students are enrolled and going to class in compliance with their study permits.
The International Student Compliance Regime, implemented in 2014, was designed to help spot bogus students and assist provinces in identifying questionable schools.
Table with 7 columns and 146 rows. Currently displaying rows 1 to 20. Including 1 sticky rows. Sorted descending by column "Non-Compliant"
Country of origin Compliant Non-Compliant Not Reported * Compliant rate Non-compliant rate Not-reported rate
Overall 644,349 49,676 23,514 89.8% 6.9% 3.3%
India 327,646 19,582 12,553 91.1% 5.4% 3.5%
China 62,519 4,279 466 93.0% 6.4% 0.7%
Nigeria 30,920 3,902 1,675 84.7% 10.7% 4.6%
Ghana 5,881 2,712 139 67.4% 31.1% 1.6%
Iran 14,039 1,848 88 87.9% 11.6% 0.6%
Democratic Rep. of Congo 2,176 1,166 7 65.0% 34.8% 0.2%
Bangladesh 11,948 984 157 91.3% 7.5% 1.2%
Vietnam 9,573 912 299 88.8% 8.5% 2.8%
Rwanda 840 802 24 50.4% 48.1% 1.4%
Philippines 28,373 688 2,078 91.1% 2.2% 6.7%
Algeria 2,133 676 4 75.8% 24.0% 0.1%
Mexico 10,084 583 112 93.6% 5.4% 1.0%
Cameroon 1,952 571 16 76.9% 22.5% 0.6%
Korea, South 7,291 552 230 90.3% 6.8% 2.8%
Jordan 1,127 509 118 64.3% 29.0% 6.7%
Nepal 17,024 469 2,659 84.5% 2.3% 13.2%
Colombia 7,646 465 428 89.5% 5.4% 5.0%
Pakistan 5,873 433 136 91.2% 6.7% 2.1%
Turkey 3,269 422 88 86.5% 11.2% 2.3%
* The number of students that colleges and universities did not report.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL Source: Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada
In March and April of 2024, colleges and universities reported to IRCC on students from 144 countries. The top 10 countries of student origin with the greatest number of "no-shows" that spring had widely ranging non-compliance rates.
They included 2.2 per cent for Philippines (representing 688 no-show students); 6.4 per cent for China (4,279 no-shows); 11.6 per cent for Iran (1,848 no-shows); and 48.1 per cent for Rwanda (802 no-shows).
Henry Lotin, a former federal economist and expert on immigration, said one way to dampen abuse of the system would be to require international students to pay fees upfront before coming to Canada.
Of the total no-shows, almost 20,000 from India – 5.4 per cent of the total number of Indian students tracked by IRCC – were reported as non-compliant with their student visas and not attending schools where they were meant to be studying.
Indian law-enforcement officials said last month that they are investigating alleged links between dozens of colleges in Canada taking in international students and two "entities" in India alleged to be involved in illegally transporting people across the Canada-U.S. border. Instead of studying in Canada, the students allegedly crossed the border illegally into the United States.
The RCMP said in a statement that it has "reached out to India through its International Policing Liaison Officers to seek additional information on investigations."
A lot of the Indian students with expired visas enter the US illegally.
Quote from: Shen Li on January 30, 2025, 11:36:12 PMA lot of the Indian students with expired visas enter the US illegally.
And the Trump administration knows that too.
Quote from: Shen Li on January 30, 2025, 11:36:12 PMA lot of the Indian students with expired visas enter the US illegally.
GTFO DOTS!!!!
This Paki is who should replace Justine.
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He will be remembered as the worst and most selfish prime minister in Canadian history.
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Quote from: Herman on February 03, 2025, 09:07:00 PMThis Paki is who should replace Justine.
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She has no chance. The Liberal Party is like the Democrats. They bosses pick their party leader.
Justine's cabinet is as corrupt and entitled as he is.
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The Trudeau-Carney Liberals, despite their own pretensions, do not get to decide what it means to be a proud Canadian.
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This crook should be locked up.
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In the fact-free world of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals, their screw-ups are always someone else's fault.
They have been in charge of the federal government during every single day of Donald Trump's two terms as president, from Jan. 20, 2017, to Jan. 20, 2021, and now from Jan. 20, 2025, to the present.
That means they wear the current dismal state of Canada-U.S. relations and the start of an economically devastating tariff war with the U.S. on Tuesday.
It happened entirely on their watch.
In that context, their absurd attempts to link Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to Trump — even Trump has said he's "not a MAGA guy" — is just another Liberal roadside distraction.
Another attempt by the Liberals to escape responsibility for their abject failure to manage the most important relationship Canada has with any country on the planet.
The Justin Trudeau era is ending, after nine-and-a-half years as prime minister. His exit coincides with the onset of a trade crisis with the United States. Trudeau leaves behind a stagnant Canadian economy crippled by dwindling productivity, a long stretch of weak business investment, and waning global competitiveness. These are problems Trudeau chose to ignore throughout his tenure. His successors will not have that luxury.
It's no exaggeration to describe the Trudeau years as almost a "lost decade" for Canadian prosperity. Measured on a per–person basis, national income today is barely higher than it was in 2015, after stripping out the effects of inflation. On this core metric of citizen well-being, Canada has one of the worst records among all advanced economies. We have fallen far behind the U.S., where average real income has grown by 15% over the same period, and most of Europe and Japan, where growth has been in the range of 5-6%.
Meanwhile, Ottawa's debt has doubled on Trudeau's watch, and both federal government spending and the size of the public service have ballooned, even as service levels have generally deteriorated. Housing in Canada has never been more expensive relative to average household incomes, and health care has never been harder to access. The statistics on crime point to a decline in public safety in the last decade.
This is from Lorrie Goldstein of Sun News.
Buried because of the news about the Trump, Vance, Zelenskyy confrontation at the White House on Friday was the release of new economic data by Statistics Canada showing our standard of living has further deteriorated over the past two years.
StatsCan reported that Canada's real GDP per capita, which measures economic output per person, adjusted for inflation, a widely accepted metric for measuring a nation's prosperity, fell by 1.4% in 2024, following a decline of 1.3% in 2023.
This is part of a longstanding crisis in the Canadian economy that has accelerated under the Trudeau Liberals.
It is unsurprising given outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's focus on redistributing income as opposed to growing the economy during his decade in office.
Everyone from Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers, who has called it a "break the glass" emergency, to Liberal leadership contender Chrystia Freeland, who called it the "Achilles heel" of the Canadian economy when she was finance minister, has sounded the alarm.
Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies for the Fraser Institute writing in The Hub last year, noted that real GDP per capita in Canada during the Trudeau years rose by 1.9%. In the U.S,. during the same period, it increased by 14.7%.
University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe, also writing in The Hub last year, said that, "if Canada had simply kept pace with the U.S. over the past two years our economy would be 8.5% larger – that's about $6,200 more income per Canadian each year."
He estimated that in 2024, the total gap in real GDP per capita between Canada and the U.S. was about $22,000 – $66,300 in the U.S. compared to $44,400 in Canada, in 2015 dollars.
In 2024 dollars, he said, the gap was higher – roughly $28,000.
"Put another way", Tombe wrote, "real GDP per capita in the U.S. was 43% higher than in Canada in 2023. And in 2024, I estimate this gap will widen to nearly 50%.
"Let that sink in for a moment. The U.S. is on track to produce nearly 50% more per person than Canada will. This stunning divergence is unprecedented in modern history."
Freeland warned in her 2022 budget that unless this trend is reversed, "the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development projects that Canada will have the lowest per-capita GDP growth rate among its member countries" from 2020 to 2060.
Liberal apologists will try to camouflage this fiscal emergency by pointing out Canada's real GDP increased by 2.6% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter of 2024, higher than expected.
But that was largely because of the dramatic increase in immigration, which the Liberal government authorized, ignoring advance warnings from its own public servants that doing so would increase the cost of living and put added strain on already beleaguered public services such as heath care.
Bringing in more people means there is more economic activity, but if it's not matched by economic growth it's bad for everyone – both Canadian citizens and immigrants – which is exactly what happened.
There has never been a better time to kill Justin Trudeau's carbon tax than right now.
The fact the Trudeau government, in its dying days, is proceeding with a scheduled 18.75% hike to the carbon tax on April 1 increasing it to $95 per tonne of industrial greenhouse gas emissions from $80 per tonne is economic insanity.
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The fact that the U.S. buys almost all of our oil exports and 45% of our natural gas exports at huge discounts, because its our only major customer, makes us a sitting duck in Trump's tariff war.
The main reason for this has been the Trudeau government's obsession with curtailing the expansion of Canada's oil and gas sector because of its radical climate change agenda.
While the Trudeau government boasts about having saved the construction of one pipeline, TMX, to get Canada's oil to tidewater and the start up of one LNG plant to do the same for liquified natural gas later this year, the Americans have been building enough new oil and gas pipelines to, as then president Barack Obama put it in 2012, more than encircle the earth.
A tariff war with Trump is bad enough. Fighting it with one hand tied behind our backs because we tied it ourselves is even worse.
According to an Angus Reid survey, most Canadians described as failures Trudeau's rapid increase of immigration levels (64%), response to inflation (55%) and introduction of the carbon tax (53%).
"After nearly a decade of governance by the Trudeau Liberals ... initial optimism has given way to more criticism than applause," the survey concluded.
"Majorities of Canadians believe the Trudeau era has had a negative impact on Canadians' trust in the federal government (63%) and housing affordability (61%)."
The survey also found significant numbers of Canadians believe the Trudeau Liberals have harmed more than helped Canada's energy sector (42% negative), infrastructure (32%), the economy (52%), relations with the U.S. (48%), the federal government relationship with the provinces (43%), health care (37%), the job market (37%) and national unity (43%).
"Asked to describe what they'll remember most about the near-decade that Trudeau led the country, the most common responses mention either the pandemic response or scandals like the SNC-Lavalin and WE Charity affairs," the survey said.
Quote from: DKG on March 09, 2025, 11:30:19 AMAccording to an Angus Reid survey, most Canadians described as failures Trudeau's rapid increase of immigration levels (64%), response to inflation (55%) and introduction of the carbon tax (53%).
"After nearly a decade of governance by the Trudeau Liberals ... initial optimism has given way to more criticism than applause," the survey concluded.
"Majorities of Canadians believe the Trudeau era has had a negative impact on Canadians' trust in the federal government (63%) and housing affordability (61%)."
The survey also found significant numbers of Canadians believe the Trudeau Liberals have harmed more than helped Canada's energy sector (42% negative), infrastructure (32%), the economy (52%), relations with the U.S. (48%), the federal government relationship with the provinces (43%), health care (37%), the job market (37%) and national unity (43%).
"Asked to describe what they'll remember most about the near-decade that Trudeau led the country, the most common responses mention either the pandemic response or scandals like the SNC-Lavalin and WE Charity affairs," the survey said.
Justine's bullshit policies were an assault on working folks
Energy, immigration, taxation, climate, regulations, name it, Justine hurt folks that earn a pay cheque.
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