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.  

Trudeau government won't say who got billions of dollars in aid.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-spending-government-transparency-1.5826917

Free-spending Trudeau government floats into choppy seas without fiscal anchor.

https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/opinion/national-perspectives/john-ivison-free-spending-trudeau-government-floats-into-choppy-seas-without-fiscal-anchor-490563/

Trudeau government spending billions to make people better off than before recession.

That’s a total of $10.8 billion in taxpayer money potentially being sent to Canadians with questionable need and who actually saw their monthly income increase substantially compared to when they were working pre-recession. This price tag represents almost half (48.4 per cent) of the aforementioned $22.3 billion in potential waste due to Ottawa’s poor targeting of assistance.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/trudeau-government-spending-billions-to-make-people-better-off-than-before-recession

 

Parliamentary Budget Office Slams Trudeau Government’s Spending Secrecy

The Liberals haven't provided a full list of COVID-19 measures, or how much they're estimated to cost.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/liberal-spending-covid-pbo_ca_5fa2edeac5b62fc3f8121cbe

Canada pledges C$485 million in COVID-19 aid for other nations.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-pledges-c-485-million-164637080.html

23 minutes ago, irv said:

Canada pledges C$485 million in COVID-19 aid for other nations.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-pledges-c-485-million-164637080.html

We should never help the less fortunate of other countries CANADA FIRST AND ONLY  

 

SHROOMS soon be legal in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/some-doctors-therapists-get-health-canada-permission-to-use-magic-mushrooms-1.5834485?fbclid=IwAR1t5e22-Tqp1Y7Ri8BVR3NmYhPbOT3TzbfIBEvuKWfnvv7L6Z6cIML3IfA

 

 

On 12/14/2020 at 10:50 PM, irv said:

Huge government debts mean Canada is robbing its kids.

Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt totalled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt has rapidly grown, with governments borrowing another $300 billion in the current year alone. This debt will be mostly repaid by our children, their children and their children’s children.

https://theconversation.com/huge-government-debts-mean-canada-is-robbing-its-kids-147977#:~:text=Before the pandemic%2C the combined,children and their children's children. 

 

How much or the record debt have we paid back left from our Parents   

Funny how we always say OUR KIDS WILL PAY meaning WE' never will 

Going back 30 years we owed over 450 billion, although some was paid back by the Liberal government but other than that not one cent has been paid back by US   -  I guess we are just leaving it for our kids and than their kids 

 

We paid back our Parents Hydro debt, this has cost us much.   And since prices have double in 2020 thanks to DOUG FORD we are now not leaving our debt to our children, and you are not happy about it I am betting 

 

I wonder what the cost of doing nothing would be

We have been told to hate Muslims for decades and now we are okay with them and HATE CHINA and CHINESE people....  Amazing how this works

Biden is sellout to China   apparently making millions of companies do their business with China  

Trudeau admires CHINA  

Watching Dragons Den or Shark Tank, all say you need to go to china to get your product made - apparently it isn't BIDEN or TRUDEAU selling us out

 

Anyone posting using a China product?   should we ban all China products?  or just post about it and use them anyway ????

CANADA FIRST 

If we blocked flights from CHINA we would not have 1 case of covid-19   

This is the new "quote of the day" 

They say Trump did it   but he never did such a thing, he blocked only China citizens  

 

So when people by the millions were returning from holidays around the world,  apparently none of these people had covid  

 

7 weeks to have this virus spread world-wide - why do some think this isn't contagious or serious 

Trump gets another victory 

Tax deduction if you order in lunch   While people are struggling to even have food Trump is making sure his meetings get a tax break with their massive free meals 

 

a Citizen will receive a 1 time deposit of $600 - Thank you this is the first help for a citizen since April

 

RECORD debt yet the average guy got nothing, great leadership something we could use up here in Canada 

23 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

How much or the record debt have we paid back left from our Parents   

Funny how we always say OUR KIDS WILL PAY meaning WE' never will 

Going back 30 years we owed over 450 billion, although some was paid back by the Liberal government but other than that not one cent has been paid back by US   -  I guess we are just leaving it for our kids and than their kids 

 

We paid back our Parents Hydro debt, this has cost us much.   And since prices have double in 2020 thanks to DOUG FORD we are now not leaving our debt to our children, and you are not happy about it I am betting 

 

I wonder what the cost of doing nothing would be

Okay Mr. Smart Guy. We are paying interest on that debt. If you never pay any of it back and the debt keeps going up, we will be paying increasing interest forever and never reducing the principle. I bet we have payed the debt many times over. If we have many more years like this one we won't be able to even pay the annual interest.

 

1 minute ago, MuskokaGator said:

Okay Mr. Smart Guy. We are paying interest on that debt. If you never pay any of it back and the debt keeps going up, we will be paying increasing interest forever and never reducing the principle. I bet we have payed the debt many times over. If we have many more years like this one we won't be able to even pay the annual interest.

 

well if we are running deficits 99% of the time, obviously we borrow the money to pay the interest on that borrowed money.

AS the country growing in population yearly (400 000 approx) so does the revenue from taxes

 

Anyway you have no interest in paying the debt back or you would be asking for an increase in taxes (too pay your share)  Saying we have a spending problem not a revenue problem isn't even close to the truth.  

FAKE RAGE

 

Next election promise will be a TAX REDUCTION for all just wait and see - no one has an interest in paying down debt the agreement worldwide in the 70's made this possible

Remember when Harper had all those Terrorist attacks or attempts during his terms and claimed voting for Trudeau would increase these?  hmmm we have no attacks anymore seems the opposite happened.

Similar to Trump claiming riots will hit USA if Biden is voted in   

 

Those were the good days

On 12/21/2020 at 11:16 AM, 1trailmaker said:

well if we are running deficits 99% of the time, obviously we borrow the money to pay the interest on that borrowed money.

AS the country growing in population yearly (400 000 approx) so does the revenue from taxes

 

Anyway you have no interest in paying the debt back or you would be asking for an increase in taxes (too pay your share)  Saying we have a spending problem not a revenue problem isn't even close to the truth.  

FAKE RAGE

 

Next election promise will be a TAX REDUCTION for all just wait and see - no one has an interest in paying down debt the agreement worldwide in the 70's made this possible

More gold from the Rubber Room Economist  

14 minutes ago, frenchy said:

More gold from the Rubber Room Economist  

as previously stated, dope smoking government worker. hahahahaahah

Very little population growth this year & very little growth period! Central banks will try to inflate their way out of this but 3/5 years the BIG D hits-wiping it all out!

190 000 immigrants came to Canada in 2020

well below the 360 000 usually added

 

 

Conspiracy you say? Want proof? Here's some proof. Stop allowing yourself to be easily brainwashed to believe that we, Canadians, have nothing to be worrying about.

Why are there chinese men, in a military base, training to be pilots...on OUR soil?

Wake up people, Mr TruBS is sleeping with the enemy.

 

  

 

 

Ever notice how much Trudope looks more & more like his real father Fiedel!

18 hours ago, Muskoka1 said:

Ever notice how much Trudope looks more & more like his real father Fiedel!

 

Trudeau's gift to Canada is going to cost us all

https://www.torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-gift-to-canada-is-going-to-cost-us-all

11 minutes ago, irv said:

Trudeau's gift to Canada is going to cost us all

https://www.torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-gift-to-canada-is-going-to-cost-us-all

Trudeau has a Minority, if this is to pass then other party's had to agree to it.

I do find it interesting when an article states "hundreds of dollars extra" sounding like it means Jan 1 2020 when them mean a decade from now you might pay 100 dollars more to heat your home.   Is there anyone that doesn't think we will pay more regardless 10 years from now.

 

I like facts, not so much HYPE and broad statements.....

Remember when 14 an hour was going to kill our economy?  well record employment was the real result, so I don't buy the HYPE on this either

 

Even with DOUG fucking us by canceling cap and trade which obviously cost us nothing since prices never came down after it was canceled,  add Trudeau's carbon tax DOUG made us take on our gasoline prices are still lower than prior to the added carbon tax FORD made us take.

 

I enjoy NO SMOG DAYS ANYMORE - seems stopping pollution does help....

 

How remembers the dead fish in Toronto Harbour?   good times

 

20 minutes ago, irv said:

Trudeau's gift to Canada is going to cost us all

https://www.torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-gift-to-canada-is-going-to-cost-us-all

Irv, one would have to be a complete idiot to not see it.

There simply isn't enough wealthy to not involve everyone.  Now follow the money to who the winners will be.

2 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Trudeau has a Minority, if this is to pass then other party's had to agree to it.

I do find it interesting when an article states "hundreds of dollars extra" sounding like it means Jan 1 2020 when them mean a decade from now you might pay 100 dollars more to heat your home.   Is there anyone that doesn't think we will pay more regardless 10 years from now.

 

I like facts, not so much HYPE and broad statements.....

Remember when 14 an hour was going to kill our economy?  well record employment was the real result, so I don't buy the HYPE on this either

 

Even with DOUG fucking us by canceling cap and trade which obviously cost us nothing since prices never came down after it was canceled,  add Trudeau's carbon tax DOUG made us take on our gasoline prices are still lower than prior to the added carbon tax FORD made us take.

 

I enjoy NO SMOG DAYS ANYMORE - seems stopping pollution does help....

 

How remembers the dead fish in Toronto Harbour?   good times

 

Fagmeat is much worse.

 

Just now, ArcticCrusher said:

Fagmeat is much worse.

 

Ya seems his ideas are pretty far fetched 

 

RECORD HEIGHTS ARE RIGHT THERE

 

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