http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/immigration-system-increase-mccallum-1.3812749

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A high-powered group of external advisers is calling for a dramatic increase in Canada's immigration levels, but Immigration Minister John McCallum says that might be too ambitious.

McCallum said Wednesday he's read the report by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth that calls for a 50-per-cent increase in targets to 450,000 people a year.

The measure would target skilled, entrepreneurial newcomers in an attempt to stimulate economic growth.

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• McCallum wants to 'substantially increase' immigration to fill labour needs

The 14-member panel, chaired by Dominic Barton of the firm McKinsey and Co., is to deliver a set of recommendations to Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Thursday.

McCallum said meeting the target suggested by Barton's group would be costly and might not find broad national support.

"The figure he gives is a huge figure," McCallum said. "But this is not a universal view across the country."

Discussions are continuing and the government will announce immigration targets for 2017 next month, McCallum added.

McCallum's cabinet colleague, Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that he's "worked very closely" with Barton's panel, and favours increased immigration levels. But he stopped short of endorsing the target in Barton's report.

"Clearly he's demonstrating an opportunity for Canada," Bains said. "We value our diversity, we value our multicultural society and we recognize immigration is an opportunity to create jobs."

The need for skilled labour

Bains said the government would need to sell the idea of higher immigration levels to the public.

"We, as a government, need to focus on communicating the benefits of growing the economy and part of that growth is investing in people and part of that equation is immigration."

Bains said bringing in more skilled workers is part of the government's broader agenda that includes investing in research and development, creating jobs and helping companies grow.

A survey released by Canadian Manufactures and Exporters said the most pressing challenge facing its member companies is "attracting or retaining skilled labour."

The response came from a survey and roundtable discussions with 1,300 member companies.

Matthew Wilson, the organization's senior vice president, said manufacturers have traditionally looked beyond Canada's border to find skilled workers.

"If we can expand that, that's good," he said in an interview.

Slower growth ahead

But the government needs to do more to make sure the immigrants they allow into Canada actually have skills that are needed, Wilson added.

"Just bringing in more immigrants isn't going to solve the skills-gap problem if they don't have the skills Canadian companies need."

The continuing need to address the country's sluggish economy was underscored Wednesday as the Bank of Canada downgraded its growth prediction.

The bank's latest outlook projected a real GDP expansion of 1.1 per cent this year, down from its earlier 1.3 per cent forecast.

Governor Stephen Poloz listed immigration as "one of the ingredients" for helping to reverse declining growth.

© The Canadian Press, 2016 

I can't believe McCallum had those thoughts. He must be drying out. Has anyone ever explained how "diversity" has helped Canada? I don't ever remember it being mentioned during Oshawa's Fiesta Week during its heydey.

Some talk on the CBC this morning & the reporter said most immigrants settle in the big cities, which doesn't help declining populations in rural & small town Canada. The reason those populations are declining is that there are no jobs there. Why would it make sense to plunk immigrants down in areas of unemployment? In Apsley, Asians already own the motel/restaurant and the "general store". I can't think of any other businesses they'd be interested in.  

2 hours ago, 02sled said:

exactly... and as the verbiage says projections for 2017 and 2018.... not actuals

2017 number is correct as we now know 

 

good times ahead kind of sunny ways  

31 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

2017 number is correct as we now know 

 

good times ahead kind of sunny ways  

Great, you buying a new sled?

On ‎12‎/‎14‎/‎2017 at 10:11 AM, 02sled said:

I guess we had better be careful what we post here.... we may soon get arrested.

Might want to warn bennytoomany.

15 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Great, you buying a new sled?

nope... he's going to have his fixed by the backyard mechanic who doesn't pay taxes on his income so he can avoid paying tax on the job

14 minutes ago, 02sled said:

nope... he's going to have his fixed by the backyard mechanic who doesn't pay taxes on his income so he can avoid paying tax on the job

Nah, he'll cobble something together himself and spend more time wrenchin than riding.

2 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Great, you buying a new sled?

sleds starts in 1 or 2 pulls, no need for a new one when you have a bullet proof one working well 

 

 

2 hours ago, 02sled said:

nope... he's going to have his fixed by the backyard mechanic who doesn't pay taxes on his income so he can avoid paying tax on the job

no one thinks you are funny 

no one cares about backyard mechanics 

no one cares about you fabrications on taxes 

no one cares 

2 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

no one thinks you are funny 

no one cares about backyard mechanics 

no one cares about you fabrications on taxes 

no one cares 

Fail... nobody even thinks you're relevant let alone anything else. You definitely have an overactive imagination though.

Fail. The champion of government labour and their bloated pay cheques but takes every opportunity he can to avoid paying the taxes that fund his pay cheque.

16 minutes ago, 02sled said:

Fail... nobody even thinks you're relevant let alone anything else. You definitely have an overactive imagination though.

Fail. The champion of government labour and their bloated pay cheques but takes every opportunity he can to avoid paying the taxes that fund his pay cheque.

nurse's pay is bloated?  wow first you bashed our Military now its nurses 

what is next in your world of complaining daily 

35 minutes ago, 02sled said:

Fail... nobody even thinks you're relevant let alone anything else. You definitely have an overactive imagination though.

Fail. The champion of government labour and their bloated pay cheques but takes every opportunity he can to avoid paying the taxes that fund his pay cheque.

17 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

nurse's pay is bloated?  wow first you bashed our Military now its nurses 

what is next in your world of complaining daily 

Friggin hilarious. FAIL STARTS OFF THE NEW YEAR AS STUPID AS USUAL. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Your over active imagination is in overdrive today I see. Show me where I said a single word about nurses. Just one! C'mon Fail.... prove your not totally delusional for just once. Admit you pulled that out of that empty space between your ears.  Then you continue your stupidity compounding it even further by referencing the military which I didn't either.

As for the military, they are underfunded and using too much antiquated equipment. Perhaps just maybe those $B's your man crush Trudope gave to 3rd world countries in the name of climate change could have been better spent on equipping the military with something current. Trudope thinks it's a good idea I guess to buy the used fighter jets for our pilots that Australia is putting out of service.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/12/06/canada-spurns-boeing-eyes-purchase-of-second-hand-australian-fighter-jets.html

Have you even come close to reality since leaving your office chair on Dec 22 or have you just been stupidly high ever since then?

Edited January 1, 20187 yr by 02sled

38 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

sleds starts in 1 or 2 pulls, no need for a new one when you have a bullet proof one working well 

 

 

About the only thing you can replace with a younger model your wife might approve.

5 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

About the only thing you can replace with a younger model your wife might approve.

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-justin-trudeaus-year-long-descent-from-celebrity-selfie-prince-to-typical-politician

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The last impression many Canadians have of Justin Trudeau in this year of Our Lord, 2017, was of him, shock-faced, rattled and babbling incoherently for a TV eternity of a minute and a half. 

From the comments:

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Spot on Rex.
Trudeau ends his second year in office in absolute disgrace.
To paraphrase Ms Barton..."how could you be so f---ing stupid"
Trudeau:....."yammer ...stammer...Sophie made me do it"
The really pathetic aspect of Mr Murphy's article is how much he was forced to leave out.
He's just touching on a select few of Trudeau's blunders.
I feel bad for the young people who voted for this poseur.
They were sold a bill of goods.
They might get their weed.
But I'd be surprised if that'll be enough to keep them in the liberal camp.
It's hard to think of a single ministry or file that isn't in complete disarray.
From here ..it makes sense that things are only going to get worse.
That's how things go in government.
It's only a mater of time before the boot-lick liberal media is forced to reassess their Trudeau postion if they want to have any hope of salvaging their credibility.
When that happens it's over.

 

2 hours ago, 02sled said:

Friggin hilarious. FAIL STARTS OFF THE NEW YEAR AS STUPID AS USUAL. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Your over active imagination is in overdrive today I see. Show me where I said a single word about nurses. Just one! C'mon Fail.... prove your not totally delusional for just once. Admit you pulled that out of that empty space between your ears.  Then you continue your stupidity compounding it even further by referencing the military which I didn't either.

As for the military, they are underfunded and using too much antiquated equipment. Perhaps just maybe those $B's your man crush Trudope gave to 3rd world countries in the name of climate change could have been better spent on equipping the military with something current. Trudope thinks it's a good idea I guess to buy the used fighter jets for our pilots that Australia is putting out of service.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/12/06/canada-spurns-boeing-eyes-purchase-of-second-hand-australian-fighter-jets.html

Have you even come close to reality since leaving your office chair on Dec 22 or have you just been stupidly high ever since then?

you said Government workers (as one big group) have bloated pay

of the 10's of thousand job titles in government which ones are overpaid?   Nurses are a part of your broad brush, how about odot1 is  he overpaid  

is IRV overpaid and lazy too? 

How many people here can you bash with one post?      

 

 

37 minutes ago, revrnd said:

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex-murphy-justin-trudeaus-year-long-descent-from-celebrity-selfie-prince-to-typical-politician

From the comments:

 

a REX beating   now they count  

 

comment on Liberal Media was typical 

23 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

you said Government workers (as one big group) have bloated pay

of the 10's of thousand job titles in government which ones are overpaid?   Nurses are a part of your broad brush, how about odot1 is  he overpaid  

is IRV overpaid and lazy too? 

How many people here can you bash with one post?      

 

 

Dumb as a stump strikes again. To fit your agenda you selectively single out a role that essentially doesn't have a private sector equivalent. Bottom line almost every government employee is less productive and paid more for it than the same private sector employee. Why Because the union has held the employer for ransom and the employer caves. Look at yourself as a prime example. You spend most of your week at the office on here.

2 hours ago, 02sled said:

Dumb as a stump strikes again. To fit your agenda you selectively single out a role that essentially doesn't have a private sector equivalent. Bottom line almost every government employee is less productive and paid more for it than the same private sector employee. Why Because the union has held the employer for ransom and the employer caves. Look at yourself as a prime example. You spend most of your week at the office on here.

You should use a smaller brush when you ramble on about government workers.  Really you have no clue what most government workers do or don't do during a day.  There is alot more going on than you realize.

 

You sure do champion the race for lower wages, Ontario doomed starting today as you said every store will close their doors this week.  

Is there anything you don't complain about? 

10 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

you said Government workers (as one big group) have bloated pay

of the 10's of thousand job titles in government which ones are overpaid?   Nurses are a part of your broad brush, how about odot1 is  he overpaid  

is IRV overpaid and lazy too? 

How many people here can you bash with one post?      

 

 

Just you.

7 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

You should use a smaller brush when you ramble on about government workers.  Really you have no clue what most government workers do or don't do during a day.  There is alot more going on than you realize.

 

You sure do champion the race for lower wages, Ontario doomed starting today as you said every store will close their doors this week.  

Is there anything you don't complain about? 

I don't know what their net profits are but most government workers make more than them.  Many can't just raise their prices to offset the higher operating costs, some will pack it in no doubt as they predict about 100K job losses.

I find it morally disgusting that Trudeau has not publically addressed Iran. 

17 minutes ago, Usedtoskidoo said:

I find it morally disgusting that Trudeau has not publically addressed Iran. 

Who is gonna lend him a backbone?  The Crying Game?

no one. I find his silence absolutely disgusting.

 

8 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

You should use a smaller brush when you ramble on about government workers.  Really you have no clue what most government workers do or don't do during a day.  There is alot more going on than you realize.

 

You sure do champion the race for lower wages, Ontario doomed starting today as you said every store will close their doors this week.  

Is there anything you don't complain about? 

Being a total idiot sure comes naturally to you doesn't it. Your over active imagination strikes again. Never did I say every store will close. That's your dumb as a stump comment. There was a bike shop owner on the news yesterday. It will cost him $30K a year that he can't just absorb. End result instead of hiring 6 seasonal employees it will be 3 maybe 4. A restaurant owner was going to add a 9.5% surcharge to the bills but instead raised the prices. He couldn't just absorb the extra costs either. I never said lower wages Fail. Your imagination again. I said way too much of an increase at one time. It's nothing more than your other hero Wynnebag trying to buy her job in the upcoming election.

There have been countless studies over the years that have found government employees are less productive than private sector. Just look at Toronto garbage collection as a prime example. Private picks up more per hour per person than public ever did. When the switch went into effect the city union had a hotline set up for people to report problems. They got one call from Olivia Chows mother that her garbage wasn't picked up at the usual time of day.

1 hour ago, ArcticCrusher said:

I don't know what their net profits are but most government workers make more than them.  Many can't just raise their prices to offset the higher operating costs, some will pack it in no doubt as they predict about 100K job losses.

  okay 02sled double

so is that another 200k Jan 2019?

1 hour ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Just you.

that is a given