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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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.  

18 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

So Scheer gets yanked from leader of the party for stealing money for his kids schooling, but is selected to O'toole cabinet  

 

Does anyone see an issue?  not that your vote changes as that is set in stone for life (never a thought needed to vote) 

 

For me this isn't a good move on the CPC part 

Atleast his wrong doings got dealt with and he was replaced, unlike fucktard of a PM who is a REPEAT OFFENDER.

1 hour ago, mach4me said:

Atleast his wrong doings got dealt with and he was replaced, unlike fucktard of a PM who is a REPEAT OFFENDER.

Well one person stole money from members for personal gain and the other didn't, really there isn't a comparison....  I really have no problem with Scheer taking trips with his family

 

Scheer needs to go away I can't understand having him around anymore, he has been horrible at the job as the election proved.

 

 how stupid are people   

how many here have this printed off  

 

 

Social Media going nuts over this and they don't even know it is nothing but bullshit   

 

1 hour ago, 1trailmaker said:

 how stupid are people   

how many here have this printed off  

 

 

Social Media going nuts over this and they don't even know it is nothing but bullshit   

 

I wish this was true!

1 hour ago, Renegade X said:

I wish this was true!

Sorry Doug Ford is for real, his shut down and mask wearing will be going on for a while.

Lets here how you will never vote for Doug again   Instead you would lineup to vote for him again and again.

This isn't on Trudeau which is too bad cause the hate would be massive.

4 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

Well one person stole money from members for personal gain and the other didn't, really there isn't a comparison....  I really have no problem with Scheer taking trips with his family

 

Scheer needs to go away I can't understand having him around anymore, he has been horrible at the job as the election proved.

 

Seems like you are generating your own fake news in your undying need to make Trudeau (should be Liedeau) look good (an impossible task). In the Global News story below, Scheer submitted the costs to the Conservative Party and they approved the expenses. He didn't steal anything. May not have been a proper expense but the Conservative Party should have turned it down.

 

 

OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer billed the Conservative party for his kids’ private Catholic school, private security, an extra housekeeper, his minivan and clothes for his family, a party review of the outgoing leader’s spending has concluded.

The audit found his expenses — including $18,000 per year in private school tuition fees — were properly recorded by the Conservative party but not shared in an itemized way with the powerful group overseeing the party’s finances, known as the Conservative Fund.

READ MORE: Trudeau, Scheer among MPs to donate pay increase to charities amid coronavirus

Party spokesman Cory Hann confirmed the audit was complete and had been reviewed by the party’s national council.

“The party’s audit found no red flags in the party’s accounting system and noted that all the expenses that were paid out were documented fully,” Hann said in an email Thursday.

He also said the Conservative Fund considers the matter closed.

The audit had been ordered last fall.

Questions about how Scheer had been using party money began to surface at the same time as senior Conservatives were publicly calling for him to resign. They cited his failure to knock the Liberals out of power in the 2019 campaign and his perceived inability to do so in the next campaign.

 

Just as Scheer was announcing he’d step aside as soon as his replacement was chosen, it became public that party money had been used to pay for his children’s private school tuition.

While the party immediately said the move was above board, in the background a battle was raging between Scheer and the fund. Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper was on the board at the time.

The party allocates a budget to the leader meant to cover political expenses that wouldn’t be paid by the House of Commons but are part of the job, and also to potentially defray some of the leader’s general expenses.

READ MORE: Conservative Party leadership race suspended, committee cites COVID-19 pandemic

But the specifics of Scheer’s expenses were not known by the fund and once details of the tuition payments were leaked, Harper and others were furious.

Harper’s own children went to public school. There are also publicly funded Catholic schools in Ottawa.

The ensuing fracas saw the fund push the party’s executive director — who had authorized the spending — out of his job and demand a line-by-line review.

 

As leader of the Opposition, Scheer made about $264,000 a year. That was before the automatic salary increase that took effect Wednesday, but he is promising to donate the difference to charity. He also receives a $2,000 car allowance.

He and his family live rent-free in the official Opposition leader’s residence, Stornoway, although they continue to maintain a home in Regina.

The money for schooling covered the difference between the cost of a private Catholic school in Regina and in Ottawa, amounting to $18,000 in total a year for Scheer’s four school-age kids.

READ MORE: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer resigns, vows to stay on until new leader chosen

Hann confirmed the Scheers expensed clothing, a housekeeper and money for school to the party. Other details, including the minivan, security and the amount spent on tuition came from a senior Conservative source familiar with the audit who was granted anonymity by The Canadian Press because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Hann said the clothing the Scheer family expensed was used for campaign appearances and other party events.

 

The minivan made appearances in some of the party’s advertising and was often cited by Scheer as proof of his “average Canadian” background compared to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It was used mainly to get the family around Ottawa.

A spokesperson for Scheer said he had nothing to add to the disclosure of the details of the audit.

Scheer has refused to discuss it in the past, saying only that it was an internal party matter and details would be made public in due course.

The review took place as part of the party’s overall accounting of its 2019 election campaign spending. Part of that was determining why Scheer’s office expenses came in at $500,000 over their normal budget.

READ MORE: ‘State of crisis’: Doctors warn some coronavirus protective gear will run out in days

The review concluded that his office had taken on pre-election expenses that should have been run through the party itself.

The leadership contest to replace Scheer was to conclude June 27, but is now on hold in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Though the spending controversy had largely faded from public view, it still simmered in the background for Conservatives.

1 hour ago, 1trailmaker said:

Sorry Doug Ford is for real, his shut down and mask wearing will be going on for a while.

Lets here how you will never vote for Doug again   Instead you would lineup to vote for him again and again.

This isn't on Trudeau which is too bad cause the hate would be massive.

Yes, Doug Ford has turned into a little liberal bitch.  I will have to wait and see who I am going to vote for next time around.  

WE is shutting down its entire Canadian operations.  Nothing to see.

ME to WE to JT to Sophie.

I guess we missed a bullet on that one eh trail, 

I wonder if the government will get its 30m back or has it already been distributed for administration fees 

Edited September 9, 20204 yr by toslow

3 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

WE is shutting down its entire Canadian operations.  Nothing to see.

They did good things too bad politics ruin it.

Greed has no boundaries 

1 hour ago, toslow said:

I guess we missed a bullet on that one eh trail, 

I wonder if the government will get its 30m back or has it already been distributed for administration fees 

of course not

I wonder what is going to replace this void  considering almost every Province has hired them to help wiht metal health.

 

 

19 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

of course not

I wonder what is going to replace this void  considering almost every Province has hired them to help wiht metal health.

 

 

Let's discuss Sheers gaming his privilege again shall we.

7 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

of course not

I wonder what is going to replace this void  considering almost every Province has hired them to help wiht metal health.

 

 

Not only did they help mental health 

they also helped themselves to millions of dollars that didn’t belong to them 

12 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

of course not

I wonder what is going to replace this void  considering almost every Province has hired them to help wiht metal health.

 

 

plenty of other organizations that can do what they did. No provinces sole sourced anything to them dumbfuck, it was only Trudeau that did that. Now we find out they were on the brink of financial collapse when they were handed a contract uncontested. Yeah, nothing to see there. 

Bill Morneau violated a part of the Canada Elections Act last summer when he promoted prospective Liberal candidates during the lead-up to the federal election while acting in his capacity as minister, says the commissioner of Canada elections.

 

Morneau, who announced his resignation as finance minister and MP for Toronto Centre last month, must pay a $300 fine. His riding association has now paid back the costs of the two events — about $1,661.

Morneau must also post a copy of the commissioner's findings on his personal website or social media channels.

The commissioner says there is no indication Morneau meant to use public resources for partisan purposes or that he was involved in planning the tours.

 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/morneau-elections-commissioner-1.5718605

 

 

On 9/6/2020 at 10:16 PM, Poncho said:

I have to laugh at how Trudeau has stalled this country into bankruptcy and being dependent on his NDP Libtard Green Party.  As the world progresses we stop.  He wants airlines done and world travel stalled. As the US and the rest survive we continue to believe the gaslighters. The world keeps going.  We just watch.  Sad. 

I figured Trail wouldn’t touch this one.....anyway back to Trail and his Barrie Walmart crowd.  Can anyone see what I predicted years ago.....we are witnessing the downfall of western society.....anyone????  Trudeau cancer continues 

Stock Markets over 16000 again record levels not seen before

16,222.46 +37.14 (0.23%)

Sep. 11, 4:20 p.m. EDT · Disclaimer

 

economy has great signs of recovery

On 9/10/2020 at 8:41 PM, Poncho said:

I figured Trail wouldn’t touch this one.....anyway back to Trail and his Barrie Walmart crowd.  Can anyone see what I predicted years ago.....we are witnessing the downfall of western society.....anyone????  Trudeau cancer continues 

You know the USA is banned from the world and Canada is not   

 

nothing to see hear just rambling 

On 9/9/2020 at 2:23 PM, MuskokaGator said:

Seems like you are generating your own fake news in your undying need to make Trudeau (should be Liedeau) look good (an impossible task). In the Global News story below, Scheer submitted the costs to the Conservative Party and they approved the expenses. He didn't steal anything. May not have been a proper expense but the Conservative Party should have turned it down.

 

 

OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer billed the Conservative party for his kids’ private Catholic school, private security, an extra housekeeper, his minivan and clothes for his family, a party review of the outgoing leader’s spending has concluded.

The audit found his expenses — including $18,000 per year in private school tuition fees — were properly recorded by the Conservative party but not shared in an itemized way with the powerful group overseeing the party’s finances, known as the Conservative Fund.

READ MORE: Trudeau, Scheer among MPs to donate pay increase to charities amid coronavirus

Party spokesman Cory Hann confirmed the audit was complete and had been reviewed by the party’s national council.

“The party’s audit found no red flags in the party’s accounting system and noted that all the expenses that were paid out were documented fully,” Hann said in an email Thursday.

He also said the Conservative Fund considers the matter closed.

The audit had been ordered last fall.

Questions about how Scheer had been using party money began to surface at the same time as senior Conservatives were publicly calling for him to resign. They cited his failure to knock the Liberals out of power in the 2019 campaign and his perceived inability to do so in the next campaign.

 

Just as Scheer was announcing he’d step aside as soon as his replacement was chosen, it became public that party money had been used to pay for his children’s private school tuition.

While the party immediately said the move was above board, in the background a battle was raging between Scheer and the fund. Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper was on the board at the time.

The party allocates a budget to the leader meant to cover political expenses that wouldn’t be paid by the House of Commons but are part of the job, and also to potentially defray some of the leader’s general expenses.

READ MORE: Conservative Party leadership race suspended, committee cites COVID-19 pandemic

But the specifics of Scheer’s expenses were not known by the fund and once details of the tuition payments were leaked, Harper and others were furious.

Harper’s own children went to public school. There are also publicly funded Catholic schools in Ottawa.

The ensuing fracas saw the fund push the party’s executive director — who had authorized the spending — out of his job and demand a line-by-line review.

 

As leader of the Opposition, Scheer made about $264,000 a year. That was before the automatic salary increase that took effect Wednesday, but he is promising to donate the difference to charity. He also receives a $2,000 car allowance.

He and his family live rent-free in the official Opposition leader’s residence, Stornoway, although they continue to maintain a home in Regina.

The money for schooling covered the difference between the cost of a private Catholic school in Regina and in Ottawa, amounting to $18,000 in total a year for Scheer’s four school-age kids.

READ MORE: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer resigns, vows to stay on until new leader chosen

Hann confirmed the Scheers expensed clothing, a housekeeper and money for school to the party. Other details, including the minivan, security and the amount spent on tuition came from a senior Conservative source familiar with the audit who was granted anonymity by The Canadian Press because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Hann said the clothing the Scheer family expensed was used for campaign appearances and other party events.

 

The minivan made appearances in some of the party’s advertising and was often cited by Scheer as proof of his “average Canadian” background compared to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It was used mainly to get the family around Ottawa.

A spokesperson for Scheer said he had nothing to add to the disclosure of the details of the audit.

Scheer has refused to discuss it in the past, saying only that it was an internal party matter and details would be made public in due course.

The review took place as part of the party’s overall accounting of its 2019 election campaign spending. Part of that was determining why Scheer’s office expenses came in at $500,000 over their normal budget.

READ MORE: ‘State of crisis’: Doctors warn some coronavirus protective gear will run out in days

The review concluded that his office had taken on pre-election expenses that should have been run through the party itself.

The leadership contest to replace Scheer was to conclude June 27, but is now on hold in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Though the spending controversy had largely faded from public view, it still simmered in the background for Conservatives.

Sweet so you are okay paying for their education with your donations 

 

Just an average guy making near 200k a year from 24 years old  but needs to take funds for his kids education from members making 40k a year 

 

okay

1 minute ago, 1trailmaker said:

Sweet so you are okay paying for their education with your donations 

 

Just an average guy making near 200k a year from 24 years old  but needs to take funds for his kids education from members making 40k a year 

 

okay

He doesn't make enough to send his kids to private school.

1FailMath.

1 minute ago, ArcticCrusher said:

He doesn't make enough to send his kids to private school.

1FailMath.

Then he shouldn't pretend to be able to afford it 

 

I still think its a bad idea to have him around in the Party, he isn't very good at leadership as we have found out

12 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Then he shouldn't pretend to be able to afford it 

 

I still think its a bad idea to have him around in the Party, he isn't very good at leadership as we have found out

People negotiate job perks when expected to uproot family.

Second carbon tax coming.

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

People negotiate job perks when expected to uproot family.

Second carbon tax coming.

lol PERKS are not allowed in this new world as a government employee.  

Sorry it is considered very bad

No more freebees for taking a contract is the new way

 

but carry on ONEWAY, remember Trudeau took a helicopter ride and considered that a firable offence