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.  

Climate Barb and the Window Washer decide to host a Zoom on god only knows and nobody shows.

 

 

Younger people are getting more severely ill with COVID, and more quickly, prompting desperate “rescue”  interventions for people as young as 22 at one Toronto Hospital.

On Monday, 17 people with COVID-19 were connected to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, at Toronto General Hospital, the highest number since the pandemic began. Their ages ranged from  22 to 61. Four are in their 20s or 30s.

 

“Certainly, we’ve seen a shift in the kinds of patients that we’re seeing coming to the ICU in this wave,” said Dr. Eddy Fan, medical director of the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at Toronto’s University Health Network, or UHN. His ECMO unit, the largest in Canada, is also a provincial referral centre

In wave one and two, most of those put on ECMO because of COVID-ravaged lungs were older, in their 50s and 60s, with chronic health problems. Now, they’re younger, many previously healthy.

 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-very-clear-shift-younger-people-getting-sicker-faster-with-covid-doctors-say

 

Most likely Dr. Eddy is lying and there are actually no sick covid patients anywhere in Canada..

As patients are flown to other hospitals due to over crowding we can with confidence say this too is a blatant lie.  ORNGE is full of shit they are not transferring patients...

 

Anyone that believes any of this needs to get better information like from facebook or Lilley 

 

1 hour ago, 1trailmaker said:

Younger people are getting more severely ill with COVID, and more quickly, prompting desperate “rescue”  interventions for people as young as 22 at one Toronto Hospital.

On Monday, 17 people with COVID-19 were connected to extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, at Toronto General Hospital, the highest number since the pandemic began. Their ages ranged from  22 to 61. Four are in their 20s or 30s.

 

“Certainly, we’ve seen a shift in the kinds of patients that we’re seeing coming to the ICU in this wave,” said Dr. Eddy Fan, medical director of the Extracorporeal Life Support Program at Toronto’s University Health Network, or UHN. His ECMO unit, the largest in Canada, is also a provincial referral centre

In wave one and two, most of those put on ECMO because of COVID-ravaged lungs were older, in their 50s and 60s, with chronic health problems. Now, they’re younger, many previously healthy.

 

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/a-very-clear-shift-younger-people-getting-sicker-faster-with-covid-doctors-say

 

Most likely Dr. Eddy is lying and there are actually no sick covid patients anywhere in Canada..

As patients are flown to other hospitals due to over crowding we can with confidence say this too is a blatant lie.  ORNGE is full of shit they are not transferring patients...

 

Anyone that believes any of this needs to get better information like from facebook or Lilley 

 

Bull fucking shit.

 

 

Edited March 30, 20214 yr by ArcticCrusher

3 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Bull fucking shit.

 

 

 

Can you link to this chart at the Toronto Open Data Portal?  this twitter image isn't offical.

I am going to bet you can't find this simple information clearly found by someone 

 

Other than that I will stick with what the Toronto head Doctor says - since it is live

TORONTO — The president of the Ontario Hospital Association says the province could face a new surge in patient transfers and cancelled surgeries as it deals with the third wave of COVID-19 in the weeks ahead.

Anthony Dale says if the trend of increasing patient numbers arriving in the province's hospitals continues, it will further strain capacity.

Dale says that will lead to patient transfers running "24-7" to ensure they receive life-saving care and additional cancelled surgeries will be added to the current backlog of 250,000 procedures.

He says intensive care units across Ontario are seeing younger patients, with more severe cases of COVID-19, which is straining the system.

 

Dale warned that the pandemic is not over, despite more widespread availability of vaccines, and stressed that people must follow public health measures.

"I am very concerned about the breakdown in social cohesion and the understanding of the risk and the sacrifice that is still needed to get us all through this safely together and without unnecessary death and harm and further massive disruption to hospital care," he said.

 

On Monday, Ornge Air Ambulance said between Jan. 1 and March 25, at least 601 patients have been transferred by it or local paramedic services to help address the pandemic capacity crunch in hospitals.

Dale says patient transfers have picked up in recent days, citing the example of hospitals in Scarborough where patients are being transported to Kingston, Ont., for critical care.

"Hospitals will move heaven and earth ... but it's all making a terrible situation worse," he said. "That's what I see over the coming weeks."

 

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2021. 

 

So AC link from twitter or direct report from President of hospital association

Sure are lot of people willing to lie for the cause (not sure what the cause is but) 

even ORNGE is making up fake numbers, this has got to stop all these lies are not good.

ICU being a real problem.

 

Canada paying influencers.  Anyone except Fail surprised?

 

 

 

36 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Canada paying influencers.  Anyone except Fail surprised?

 

 

 

  Blacklocks is a paid to read   reports, since you are a member can you post the entire article?

 

I tried to search out other articles or really anything to back this catch headline.

 

The full story would be nice,  although the headline is cool

 

 

 

 

Taxpayers on the hook for MPs raises of up to $6,400 on Thursday

 

 post millennial nothing gets by them  

On 3/31/2021 at 8:28 AM, ArcticCrusher said:

Canada paying influencers.  Anyone except Fail surprised?

 

 

 

it happened. I know of at least 6 people who work at PHAC and 2 DG's at HC who verify that is exactly what went down. But CBC and/or JT didn't tell Fail it happened so I guess it didn't....

Edited April 2, 20214 yr by frenchy

11 hours ago, frenchy said:

it happened. I know of at least 6 people who work at PHAC and 2 DG's at HC who verify that is exactly what went down. But CBC and/or JT didn't tell Fail it happened so I guess it didn't....

AC can't post the article so how about you?  can you post more than a catch headline.

I asked for the full story something you and others here have no interest in...

 

So to get this straight, if a government promotes its programs this is somehow very wrong?

Are ads on TV okay promoting vaccines? 

Is this like using tax money to force private businesses to put up decals (made by his own company) promoting a political view of a Party?

 

I have a feeling the ONEWAY is going to be big on this one

9 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

AC can't post the article so how about you?  can you post more than a catch headline.

I asked for the full story something you and others here have no interest in...

 

So to get this straight, if a government promotes its programs this is somehow very wrong?

Are ads on TV okay promoting vaccines? 

Is this like using tax money to force private businesses to put up decals (made by his own company) promoting a political view of a Party?

 

I have a feeling the ONEWAY is going to be big on this one

When is Blacklock's Reporter ever wrong?

6 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

When is Blacklock's Reporter ever wrong?

not sure you have to pay to read, seems odd no one ever posts from that site other than the catch paragraph 

 

Full story please

only in Fail-land - it never happened if the CBC or Toronto Star don't print a story about it  

Due to overwhelming demand, the first day of every month with be known as the Month Fools day in celebration of our PM.

 

 

7 hours ago, frenchy said:

only in Fail-land - it never happened if the CBC or Toronto Star don't print a story about it  

 

On 4/2/2021 at 10:09 AM, ArcticCrusher said:

When is Blacklock's Reporter ever wrong?

So in other words you have no story only a catch headline from a site that will only let you read if you pay them money  

 

 

6 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

 

So in other words you have no story only a catch headline from a site that will only let you read if you pay them money  

 

 

Is this really hard for you?

11 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Is this really hard for you?

just looking for more than a catch headline

do you send them money? 

 

 

2 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

 

 

 

 

So proud to be Canadian right now.  

2 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

 

 

 

now you know why FORD is locking us down

Variant is running in Canada - wake up

 

going to anti mask and this is a fake virus protest isn't helping, its making it worse 

 

 

On 4/7/2021 at 11:32 PM, 1trailmaker said:

 

now you know why FORD is locking us down

Variant is running in Canada - wake up

 

going to anti mask and this is a fake virus protest isn't helping, its making it worse 

 

 

Good use for Trudeau.

 

 

$496 climate rebate for me, how about you guys?  nothing I assume

12 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

$496 climate rebate for me, how about you guys?  nothing I assume

What an idiot you here.  "Sunny ways people, sunny ways"

Over half of Canadians are $200 or less away from not being able to pay bills.

https://globalnews.ca/news/3434447/over-half-of-canadians-are-200-or-less-away-from-not-being-able-to-pay-bills/

And that's not the worst of it: A quarter of respondents are already unable to cover their bills and almost a third said an interest rate hike could throw them into bankruptcy.

https://financialpost.com/news/economy/nearly-half-canadians-within-200-a-month-of-being-unable-to-pay-bills-poll-finds