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.  

From 2011.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, irv said:

It's so obvious you'd have to be a complete moron not to see it. Tough questions for O'Toole and nicey nice ones for Trudope. 

I also laugh at the dope. He was/is getting hammered about Jodi so instead of answering the questions, he deflects to one of his favorites in climate change and the media follows right along like the good paid minions they are. 

 

IRV says Trudeau gets only easy questions then states he was getting hammered with questions from CBC  

NEWONEWAY is completely blind

 

3 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

From 2011.

 

 

 

    

Ya they hid all copies so noone would remember, but they forgot about this lady 

  

 

my GOD AC what the fuck is going on with you

Should I even post that GATEs was talking about Carbon   and the loney tunes think he is taking over the world with injections  Publicly states " I want to kill people wiht vaccines "   

Then 10 years later it is posted as a GOTCHA 

 

 

 

 

Here is the archive.

 

 

https://archive.org/details/sovereign-independent-issue-4/mode/2up

Why hasn't O'toole while getting ready for bed just come up with an answer to the Alberta Question, how fucking dumb can he be?

"Please Mr. O'toole we are aware trudeau called an election for his own interests, so don't answer this question with that,  Alberta covid response blah blah blah how do you responed to that?  Mr Trudeau called an election 

Holly fuck why is he doing this.  Canadians would be fine wiht an answer and move on

 

This isn't helping him gain votes

Asked three times if he would allow Vuong to sit in the Liberal caucus or fire him, Trudeau refused to answer — staring back at the reporter with a smirk as his staff called “next question.”

 

LIBERAL IMPROPRIETY

The Trudeau Liberals have had several MPs, candidates and staff members face allegations over the past few years, here is a partial list.

Liberal MPs

Justin Trudeau
Raj Saini
Kent Hehr
Darshan Kang
Marwan Tabbara
Hunter Tootoo
Scott Andrews
Massimo Pacetti

Liberal candidates

Kevin Vuong

Liberal staffers

Claude-Éric Gagné

https://torontosun.com/news/election-2021/liberals-ask-candidate-to-pause-campaign-after-dropped-sex-assault-charge-revealed

Trudeau's Liberals still too close to China, protecting Beijing.

Trudope admires China, said so right on video so no one should be surprised at all this is still going on. Of course some will try and defend his admiration for China but those, imo, are just as stupid as he is. 

It’s been dubbed “the panda in the room” that no one wants to talk about: Canada’s position with China under the Trudeau Liberals.

While it had previously been reported that Qiu had worked with academics connected to institutions affiliated China’s People’s Liberation Army, it was not revealed until this week that the scientist in question was actually a Chinese military officer.

After denying multiple requests from a Commons committee to turn over documents related to the Winnipeg lab dismissal, MPs called for the documents to be turned over in a vote.

The government refused, the clerk of the Privy Council was called before the Commons and reprimanded, the government was found in contempt and the Trudeau Liberals still refused.

Is it any wonder that our allies, the U.S., U.K. and Australia, cut us out of a security deal this week?

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeaus-liberals-still-too-close-to-china-protecting-beijing

https://fb.watch/85PW40ZYEw/

 

 

Big Day Today

Lets see if the polls were even close

 

suicide watch

 

 

1 hour ago, irv said:

 

and Prior to this altercation she was just another fucked up Liberal useless person

 

no she is IRVs hero -  Tell me IRV what is she up to today?  is her book good?  what does it say.

4 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

 

and Prior to this altercation she was just another fucked up Liberal useless person

 

no she is IRVs hero -  Tell me IRV what is she up to today?  is her book good?  what does it say.

No, you stupid prick, she was one of the good ones, but because your man crush, can never do no wrong, idol Trudope ousted her for not obstructing justice, you went right along with that yourself.

Tell me, Trail, have you ever had the capability of thinking for yourself or do you just follow along and agree with everything Trudope does like a good little sheep? 

 

Hard one to call, I think MAX is going to steal some votes - lots of PPC signage around in the land of Blue here (no doubt my district will be CPC)

 

Did Otoole's constant "Trudeau called an election play well other than to the base" we will see

 

 

well here we go

PPC MAX is happy as he might make the 4% of the vote and become official party invited to debates - but poor Max isn't going to get his own seat (again) 

TRUDEAU WINS 

19 seats from a Majority can they make it  

 

 

"The country has never been this divided" should be the comments tomorrow.

 

Looks like O'toole is done - I liked him

Disappointing

4 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

19 seats from a Majority can they make it  

 

 

"The country has never been this divided" should be the comments tomorrow.

 

Looks like O'toole is done - I liked him

You do know the votes are still being counted. 

The numbers you are looking at will change 

Just now, toslow said:

You do know the votes are still being counted. 

The numbers you are looking at will change 

Its been called minority and small chance of majority

31 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

Its been called minority and small chance of majority

And here we are millions spent and right back where we started.

what a fuck-up trudy is 

10 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

19 seats from a Majority can they make it  

 

 

"The country has never been this divided" should be the comments tomorrow.

 

Looks like O'toole is done - I liked him

I'm interested to see what happens with him.  Looks like he got two less seats than Scheer did

11 minutes ago, 04nightfire said:

I'm interested to see what happens with him.  Looks like he got two less seats than Scheer did

Nothing will. He is dumb as a stump but those beneath him are even more dumb. Right now, I'm sure most are kissing the ground he walks on and telling him great job.