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.  

AC I have noticed quite a few ONEWAYs seem to be supporting PUTIN    you seem to be leaning this way too?

 

Their hate for Biden and Trudeau overrides all logic (normal for ONEWAYs) neither are in a war but that doesn't stop the ONEWAY hate 

 

I don't understand stand supporting killing innocent people _ Hate must really rule

Edited March 13, 20223 yr by 1trailmaker

I'm quite surprised by this too.  Not sure how anyone living in north America can throw one word of support behind what Putin is doing in Ukraine.  Just goes to show you there are a lot of uneducated dumb fucks living here.  There is probably lots of good back country sledding in Russia perhaps some of these guys should grab a few q anons and some truckers and go live under Putin in Russia.

7 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

  YOu need to get out more, this is common practice - then they trace you the rest of your life

It is to identify the baby.... Then used in the future to control your movement

 

The fact they take many fluid samples also gives them your babies DNA    for you conspiracy people this is a very dangerous thing that has been happening for decades.

Well i have 4 kids and none of them was foot-printed 

6 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

AC I have noticed quite a few ONEWAYs seem to be supporting PUTIN    you seem to be leaning this way too?

 

Their hate for Biden and Trudeau overrides all logic (normal for ONEWAYs) neither are in a war but that doesn't stop the ONEWAY hate 

 

I don't understand stand supporting killing innocent people _ Hate must really rule

 

5 hours ago, rjd75 said:

I'm quite surprised by this too.  Not sure how anyone living in north America can throw one word of support behind what Putin is doing in Ukraine.  Just goes to show you there are a lot of uneducated dumb fucks living here.  There is probably lots of good back country sledding in Russia perhaps some of these guys should grab a few q anons and some truckers and go live under Putin in Russia.

 

Putin is no Saint but neither is the usa/nato.

What would the US do if putin had an agreement with Mexico and brought in military and bioweapons along the Mexico USA border.  Some really need to get a fucking clue on what has happened in Ukraine and stop watching the fake news.

 

 

 

Where was all this conspiracy shit 3 weeks ago? All I heard was denazifying a country led by a Jewish leader and a bunch of drug addicts, that's it. Certainly all these smart people including Putin and that pathological lying sack of shit Lavrov, would know about these labs and would have sounded a lot more credible talking about it 3 weeks ago.  Now suddenly after 3 weeks of hobbling around bombing there are all kinds of new reasons to be there coming to light.

Not saying I don't disagree with US/NATO not being innocent or Biden being weak.  They are essentially sacrificing Ukraine for the rest of Nato, pretty obvious when you look at a map of Europe. However, seeing people who live in the comfort of the free world peddling this conspiracy nonsense in favor of killing the innocent people caught in the middle is despicable to say the least.  Putin is a known killer who jails and kills anyone who dare say/do anything against him.  Sitting on your Ivory tower in Canada and commenting on this with such authority is fucking laughable.

6 minutes ago, rjd75 said:

Where was all this conspiracy shit 3 weeks ago? All I heard was denazifying a country led by a Jewish leader and a bunch of drug addicts, that's it. Certainly all these smart people including Putin and that pathological lying sack of shit Lavrov, would know about these labs and would have sounded a lot more credible talking about it 3 weeks ago.  Now suddenly after 3 weeks of hobbling around bombing there are all kinds of new reasons to be there coming to light.

Not saying I don't disagree with US/NATO not being innocent or Biden being weak.  They are essentially sacrificing Ukraine for the rest of Nato, pretty obvious when you look at a map of Europe. However, seeing people who live in the comfort of the free world peddling this conspiracy nonsense in favor of killing the innocent people caught in the middle is despicable to say the least.  Putin is a known killer who jails and kills anyone who dare say/do anything against him.  Sitting on your Ivory tower in Canada and commenting on this with such authority is fucking laughable.

You have no clue.

 

 

Uhm.. I think that is exactly what i was eluding to.. do us all a favour and close your FS tab, and go back to your QANON and Russian propaganda sites.  You are in good company supporting Putin with the likes of China, North Korea, Cuba.  

Joined up in 2016 and got only 59 post? Ummm

37 minutes ago, toslow said:

Joined up in 2016 and got only 59 post? Ummm

HE  was around in the old freedomsledder and you liked his posts before   

 

Point is AC needs help, there is a sickness and he has it..

1 hour ago, toslow said:

Well i have 4 kids and none of them was foot-printed 

They knew you would be suspicious so they did it secretly and instantly sent all prints to head quarters.  Their DNA was sent to another special lab for further studies.  Clones maybe  

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, 1trailmaker said:

They knew you would be suspicious so they did it secretly and instantly sent all prints to head quarters.  Their DNA was sent to another special lab for further studies.  Clones maybe  

 

 

 

 

 

Only in your world

1 hour ago, 1trailmaker said:

HE  was around in the old freedomsledder and you liked his posts before   

 

Point is AC needs help, there is a sickness and he has it..

I guess you have a new friend 

2 minutes ago, toslow said:

I guess you have a new friend 

lol doubtful but clearly he isn't a fan of the stupid stuff people are posting 

 

remember these people would have fought the NAZIs but really they would have joined them.

I can’t waste my time anymore. Carry on 

5 minutes ago, toslow said:

I can’t waste my time anymore. Carry on 

isn't that the entire point here   

For context.

 

Again nothing to see.

 

For the simpletons.

 

We appreciate you copy/pasting memes from your QANON and Russian sites.  So you are in full support of Putin's "special operation" to denazify, while also drawing direct parallels of a brutal murderous dictator bombing innocent civilians to  the "struggle" of the Canadian Trucker convoy. The only simpleton here is you.

Let me dumb it down for the retards at the back of the class.

 

 

More fake news.  Don't even bother to fack check.  Not a problem when you are fooling sheep.

 

 

Photo of an actual Nazi.  

 

20 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

For the simpletons.

 

I assume you feel we should attack Ukraine?   I hear Trump is working with Putin to take over the world,  who side are you on?

22 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Again nothing to see.

 

April 2022    just preparing for the future 

3 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

More fake news.  Don't even bother to fack check.  Not a problem when you are fooling sheep.

 

 

wow have you been sucked right in (off) it is very disturbing what is happening to you.  

THINK FOR YOURSELF