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.  

LOL you ordering me not to post. Fuck off idiot 

I don't know why you guys waste your time with this retard trailmaker.  Hell I don't even know why I still come on this site when its just his lame posts.   

Fail was the first to reach herd stupidity.

Florida last 7 day death average is 68 a day

476 dead in the past week, at least the young got to party on the beach on clubs makes it all worth losing a few more parents 

Meanwhile lockdownDOUGIE is holding strong

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=florida+covid+deaths&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA875CA876&sxsrf=ALeKk02s0d2wpU93YTbN5aDn2nN-oJGfEQ%3A1620765997799&ei=Le2aYN-WMMLQtQax3LmwCQ&oq=florida+covid+deaths&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAELEDMgIIADICCAAyBggAEAcQHjICCAAyBggAEAcQHjIGCAAQBxAeMgIIADICCAAyBggAEAcQHjoECAAQDVCFsOYCWNO55gJgyMLmAmgAcAB4AYABigKIAc8IkgEFNC4yLjKYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwif4b_sv8LwAhVCaM0KHTFuDpYQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

 

 

5 hours ago, Renegade X said:

I don't know why you guys waste your time with this retard trailmaker.  Hell I don't even know why I still come on this site when its just his lame posts.   

right? the fucker is a trudeau troll. have posted this before. ignore the baa baa back sheep. dont let 'it' bait ya

 

Canada now 1st in world for delivering vaccines per 100 people

 

 

On 5/12/2021 at 10:08 AM, 1trailmaker said:

Canada now 1st in world for delivering vaccines per 100 people

 

 

When everyone else has finished the race and you are the only one left on the track, obviously, you are running the fastest laps no matter what speed you can manage.

On 5/12/2021 at 10:08 AM, 1trailmaker said:

Canada now 1st in world for delivering vaccines per 100 people

 

 

Got a link? Or are you still rubbing one out to your trudy pictures you have on your wall 

On 5/11/2021 at 6:26 PM, 1trailmaker said:

Florida last 7 day death average is 68 a day

476 dead in the past week, at least the young got to party on the beach on clubs makes it all worth losing a few more parents 

Meanwhile lockdownDOUGIE is holding strong

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=florida+covid+deaths&rlz=1C1CHBD_enCA875CA876&sxsrf=ALeKk02s0d2wpU93YTbN5aDn2nN-oJGfEQ%3A1620765997799&ei=Le2aYN-WMMLQtQax3LmwCQ&oq=florida+covid+deaths&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQgAELEDMgIIADICCAAyBggAEAcQHjICCAAyBggAEAcQHjIGCAAQBxAeMgIIADICCAAyBggAEAcQHjoECAAQDVCFsOYCWNO55gJgyMLmAmgAcAB4AYABigKIAc8IkgEFNC4yLjKYAQCgAQGqAQdnd3Mtd2l6wAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwif4b_sv8LwAhVCaM0KHTFuDpYQ4dUDCA4&uact=5

 

 

So Fail is Doug wrong or right to lockdown?

You criticize Florida for being open and imply Doug doing wrong for locking us down.  

 

Which Is correct path?

On 5/14/2021 at 7:17 AM, Sksman said:

So Fail is Doug wrong or right to lockdown?

You criticize Florida for being open and imply Doug doing wrong for locking us down.  

 

Which Is correct path?

He is holding strong but really no win for him, his FORDNATION just can't believe he hasn't called this a fake pandemic from the start.  

 

As for opening up such as Texas and Florida,  flaunting opening as against the democrats blah blah we love Trump isn't the way to go about things,  Certainly when your best days are 40 dead this isn't something to flaunt as great IMO.

 

There vax rate is more than ours and yet they have way more dead people, sure goes to show they don't give a fuck about 'the people'  Opening up is the cause for them not the cure.

 

Ford is playing the blame game - crying daily for Trudeau to fix this for him , is getting old.

Wanting to complete close of Ontario from the world isn't gong to help but it will hurt - this is where FORD is failing

 

On 5/13/2021 at 10:33 PM, Blackstar said:

When everyone else has finished the race and you are the only one left on the track, obviously, you are running the fastest laps no matter what speed you can manage.

although not true it was a good attempt  

 

We just past USA in percent vaccinated

 

This was a day ago

 

TORONTO -- More than 46 per cent of Canadians have been vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday afternoon, putting Canada on track to surpass the U.S. in the proportion of the population vaccinated with one dose this week.

This would bring the total of Canadians vaccinated with a single dose to approximately 48 per cent.

Canada has been vaccinating an average of 0.90 per cent of the population each day over the past seven days. This totals to 46.24 per cent of the population vaccinated with at least one dose as of Tuesday afternoon. The U.S. currently has 47.19 per cent of the population vaccinated with one dose and has been inoculating an average of 0.22 per cent of their population each day this past week.

CTV News. 

Almost 5,000 still contracted covid with 96 dying after they were vaccinated.

Any proof, anywhere, that these concoctions actually work or come remotely close to warding off covid?? 

 

Edited May 20, 20214 yr by irv

1 hour ago, irv said:

CTV News. 

Almost 5,000 still contracted covid with 96 dying after they were vaccinated.

Any proof, anywhere, that these concoctions actually work or come remotely close to warding off covid?? 

 

But Irv more would have died if only . . .

 

1 hour ago, irv said:

CTV News. 

Almost 5,000 still contracted covid with 96 dying after they were vaccinated.

Any proof, anywhere, that these concoctions actually work or come remotely close to warding off covid?? 

 

Your local old folks homes are no longer putting out the dead by the hundreds, only 1 reason why  

 

keep posting your anti mask nonsense - you made a big step today admitting covid is killing people 

 

When this comes to an end in the near future due to vaccines and all that we have done, what will you be posting about?

 

 

IRv do you know what 95% effective means?

 

 

 

12 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Your local old folks homes are no longer putting out the dead by the hundreds, only 1 reason why  

 

keep posting your anti mask nonsense - you made a big step today admitting covid is killing people 

 

When this comes to an end in the near future due to vaccines and all that we have done, what will you be posting about?

 

 

IRv do you know what 95% effective means?

 

So, you have nothing, yet again, just what the T.V. screen tells you.

Again, Fail, where is the proof these vaccines work at all?

Eight people from the New York Yankees organization tested positive, despite having been fully vaccinated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/s...t-to-know.html

Family left with questions after Brampton senior's death.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...ive-days-later

Langley-area man loses 2 metres of intestine after a blood clot following his AstraZeneca jab

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...fect-1.6027830

Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine, even with priority access.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...vaccine-access
 

B.C. man has part of small intestine removed due to vaccine-induced blood clot

"I really wish they had let us know what “worse case scenario” might look like...""


https://www.torontosun.com/news/loca...f-81de5fd6d4c0
 

"At the start of May, the CDC shifted from monitoring all reported breakthroughs to only those that result in hospitalization or death, Tom Clark, head of the vaccine evaluation unit for the CDC’s vaccine task force, said in an interview"
https://fortune.com/2021/05/10/can-y...cases-tracing/

5 minutes ago, irv said:

So, you have nothing, yet again, just what the T.V. screen tells you.

Again, Fail, where is the proof these vaccines work at all?

Eight people from the New York Yankees organization tested positive, despite having been fully vaccinated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/s...t-to-know.html

Family left with questions after Brampton senior's death.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...ive-days-later

Langley-area man loses 2 metres of intestine after a blood clot following his AstraZeneca jab

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...fect-1.6027830

Some healthcare workers refuse to take COVID-19 vaccine, even with priority access.

https://www.latimes.com/california/s...vaccine-access
 

B.C. man has part of small intestine removed due to vaccine-induced blood clot

"I really wish they had let us know what “worse case scenario” might look like...""


https://www.torontosun.com/news/loca...f-81de5fd6d4c0
 

"At the start of May, the CDC shifted from monitoring all reported breakthroughs to only those that result in hospitalization or death, Tom Clark, head of the vaccine evaluation unit for the CDC’s vaccine task force, said in an interview"
https://fortune.com/2021/05/10/can-y...cases-tracing/

  at least you keep it up

 

Irv If I was you I wouldn't get any vaccines period, its pretty scary stuff as you state

 

Me I will get it to support businesses that have closed, once this virus is under control these businesses can open.   Until Ontario reaches a certain percent of vaccinated people they can't open -  YOU CLEARLY DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT ANY OF THEM.

 

funny how 90 vaccinated people out of millions and millions is a massive concern but 1000"s people dying a day from coivd is fake news and regular flu.  

mind boggling 

 

stay away from any Doctors they are all in on the plan

Sounds like a plan, Fail, go get a vaccine that was rushed through with no info/data on if it works nor the long term health affects because the gov't says so.

Tell me, why are so many still getting covid after being fully vaccinated and why are so many dying after the shot?

With a 98% recovery rate, I'd say my chances are far greater of surviving covid than they are if I get the vaccine, but you do you, do the righteous thing because big gov't told you to. 

Here's a CTV one for you. Mind you it was aired, just an article you had to dig for. 

 So far, 5,800 fully vaccinated people have caught COVID-19 anyway in U.S., CDC says.
About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN.

Some became seriously ill and 74 people died, the CDC said. It said 396 -- 7% -- of those who got infected after they were vaccinated required hospitalization.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...says-1.5388245

I'm sure if these 2 healthy women were given all the facts or their doctors told them what yours told you, they might be still be alive.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...zeneca-vaccine
https://globalnews.ca/video/7815211/...zeneca-vaccine

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212939.shtml

Warriors' Damion Lee tested positive for COVID-19 despite full vaccination

Lee went on to describe the symptoms he experienced, including headache, chills, sneezing, congestion, soreness, body aches, and what he described as "brain fog" — where he'd lost track of what he was talking about five minutes into a conversation. "It felt like I was hit by a car, hit by two cars at once," he added.

https://theathletic.com/news/warrior...n/muRvt49vKYuI
 

I have lots more, Fail. Do you have any that actually show/prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these vaccines are doing anything to protect people? 

1 hour ago, irv said:

Sounds like a plan, Fail, go get a vaccine that was rushed through with no info/data on if it works nor the long term health affects because the gov't says so.

Tell me, why are so many still getting covid after being fully vaccinated and why are so many dying after the shot?

With a 98% recovery rate, I'd say my chances are far greater of surviving covid than they are if I get the vaccine, but you do you, do the righteous thing because big gov't told you to. 

Here's a CTV one for you. Mind you it was aired, just an article you had to dig for. 

 So far, 5,800 fully vaccinated people have caught COVID-19 anyway in U.S., CDC says.
About 5,800 people who have been vaccinated against coronavirus have become infected anyway, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells CNN.

Some became seriously ill and 74 people died, the CDC said. It said 396 -- 7% -- of those who got infected after they were vaccinated required hospitalization.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/corona...says-1.5388245

I'm sure if these 2 healthy women were given all the facts or their doctors told them what yours told you, they might be still be alive.
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...zeneca-vaccine
https://globalnews.ca/video/7815211/...zeneca-vaccine

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212939.shtml

Warriors' Damion Lee tested positive for COVID-19 despite full vaccination

Lee went on to describe the symptoms he experienced, including headache, chills, sneezing, congestion, soreness, body aches, and what he described as "brain fog" — where he'd lost track of what he was talking about five minutes into a conversation. "It felt like I was hit by a car, hit by two cars at once," he added.

https://theathletic.com/news/warrior...n/muRvt49vKYuI
 

I have lots more, Fail. Do you have any that actually show/prove beyond a reasonable doubt that these vaccines are doing anything to protect people? 

so to clear this up - the vaccine didn't kill them, covid 19 did.  Is this correct?

 

you need to pick up on your math skills

160 million vaccines - your claims 74 died from covid

odd now 0.0000004625% of dying much better than the 1 in every 2000 that have died

 

What level of protection is your denial providing? we can agree ZERO

 

 

Stay away from vaccines IRV it very scary 

4 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

so to clear this up - the vaccine didn't kill them, covid 19 did.  Is this correct?

 

you need to pick up on your math skills

160 million vaccines - your claims 74 died from covid

odd now 0.0000004625% of dying much better than the 1 in every 2000 that have died

 

What level of protection is your denial providing? we can agree ZERO

 

 

Stay away from vaccines IRV it very scary 

So all that gibberish and you still have nothing? C'mon, Trail, surely, with all the science and all it should be easy for you to prove the vaccines are actually protecting people like they were designed to do. 

6 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

although not true it was a good attempt  

 

We just past USA in percent vaccinated

 

This was a day ago

 

TORONTO -- More than 46 per cent of Canadians have been vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as of Tuesday afternoon, putting Canada on track to surpass the U.S. in the proportion of the population vaccinated with one dose this week.

This would bring the total of Canadians vaccinated with a single dose to approximately 48 per cent.

Canada has been vaccinating an average of 0.90 per cent of the population each day over the past seven days. This totals to 46.24 per cent of the population vaccinated with at least one dose as of Tuesday afternoon. The U.S. currently has 47.19 per cent of the population vaccinated with one dose and has been inoculating an average of 0.22 per cent of their population each day this past week.

 

Who cares about 1 shot? It takes 2.

Americans are done with the vaccine. They are bribing people to get shots now.

 

 

2 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

 

Who cares about 1 shot? It takes 2.

Americans are done with the vaccine. They are bribing people to get shots now.

 

 

Doug is going to release AZ as a  second shot in the next weeks - 

 

Faster this goes away the better, I'm not a fan of the "do nothing" answer I see posted.

 

 

15 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Doug is going to release AZ as a  second shot in the next weeks - 

 

Faster this goes away the better, I'm not a fan of the "do nothing" answer I see posted.

 

 

Grab your mask Trail. This bullshit is far from over.

 

I'm at many private residences through the day and noticing fewer and fewer people wearing a mask when I visit. I get invited in to houses all the time. "Do I need a mask?".

"Na, just come on in."

The masks are just for public display. No one cares any more.

 

Locally they are discouraging fireworks over the long weekend. Are you fucking kidding me? God for bid people have a little bit of fun.

 

 

1 minute ago, Blackstar said:

Grab your mask Trail. This bullshit is far from over.

 

I'm at many private residences through the day and noticing fewer and fewer people wearing a mask when I visit. I get invited in to houses all the time. "Do I need a mask?".

"Na, just come on in."

The masks are just for public display. No one cares any more.

 

Locally they are discouraging fireworks over the long weekend. Are you fucking kidding me? God for bid people have a little bit of fun.

 

 

Golfing Saturday I might bring the sled helmet 

 

The end is near - for the vaccinated and only the vaccinated can make that happen.  

 

 

4 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Golfing Saturday I might bring the sled helmet 

 

The end is near - for the vaccinated and only the vaccinated can make that happen.  

 

 

70-80% first shot before restaurants reopen. 

 

No hair cuts until at least July.

Edited May 21, 20214 yr by Blackstar

1 minute ago, Blackstar said:

70-80% first shot before restaurants reopen. 

lockdowndoug is real 

 

 

 

I think everyone is vaccinated here except IRV - there is always one in every crowd