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B.C. journalist and columnist. Editor of @DominionReview . Canadian nationalist.

Salt Spring Island, B.C.
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Don Cherry wants YOU to get on the Dominion Review newsletter:
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At the current rate of immigration, Canada is projected to be 30% foreign-born by 2036 and 50% non-white by 2050. Canadians are living through a seismic demographic change which they were never consulted on.
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Bernier says there is a simple fix to the housing crisis: "just stop mass immigration". He further argues that multiculturalism has failed in Europe and Canada, and should be abolished. Do you agree with Mad Max?
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Canadian healthcare isn't failing because it's universal, it's failing because our hospitals are being overwhelmed by mass immigration.
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1,000 people showed up for a job fair at Toronto Beach Club, a Mediterranean seafood restaurant. 350 people submitted dishwasher resumes - the restaurant wasn't even hiring for that position! But Canada needs mass immigration because of a "labour shortage"?
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Canada needs a national referendum on mass immigration.
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The tide is turning against mass immigration in Canada. Can you feel it?
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Conservative Deputy Leader @TimUppal gives a statement entirely in Punjabi at a Poilievre press conference. This is unacceptable. Canadian politicians should not be speaking in a foreign language in their official capacity - lest we become a Tower of Babel.
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The blue line is population change in the U.S. The red line is population change in Canada. That big red spike is the reason why everything - infrastructure, healthcare, housing - is overloaded and falling apart.
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"It is unhealthy to link housing to the volume of people that are coming here to seek refuge and asylum, equally unhealthy to relate it to immigrants..." - Immigration Minister Marc Miller Canada's political elite is divorced from reality.
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Canada needs a national referendum on mass immigration.
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I will be boycotting Tim Hortons until they stop undercutting Canadian labour by hiring temporary foreign workers 🇨🇦 #BoycottTimHortons
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Canadians, should there be a national referendum on mass immigration?
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Since 2001, Canada has lost the equivalent of seven small farms per day to accommodate urban sprawl driven by mass immigration. Why don't environmentalists talk about this?
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This graph is insane. The number of temporary foreign workers in Canada has increased by almost 300% to over 1.25 million under Trudeau.
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The most brilliant refutation of mass immigration you will ever see - explained with gumballs! This is Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, but it's highly relevant here in Canada. We need to shut down this Ponzi scheme.
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Every day, Ontario loses 319 acres of farmland to accommodate immigration-driven population growth. Why is the Green Party of Canada not vociferously opposing mass immigration?
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Video: Poilievre promises a direct flight to Amritsar, a city in the Indian state of Punjab. He says he will build "a Canada where it doesn't matter if your name is Martin or Mohammed, Singh or Smith, Poilievre or Patel". This level of pandering is beyond parody.
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"There is no such thing as a model or ideal Canadian. What could be more absurd than the concept of an 'all-Canadian' boy or girl?" - Pierre Trudeau We are the "first post-national state" with "no core identity" - Justin Trudeau The damage these two men did is incalculable.
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Many Canadians have swallowed "nation of immigrants" myths which creates a psychological barrier to criticizing immigration. This list of ten good reasons to oppose mass immigration helps dismantle this barrier.
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Canadian house prices VS income since 1984. How can anyone still support mass immigration?
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This guy in his fifties (?) came from India to Canada on a visitor visa, and then an immigration consulting company helped him get a student visa - and his wife a "spousal open-work permit". Now they live here. I don't really blame him. I blame our government for allowing this.
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Doug Ford has publicly stated that "unwavering support for immigration" is a "core Canadian value". His government even banned employers from requiring Canadian work experience. How is this guy considered a "conservative"?
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This is a graph of house prices in the G7 - Canada is basically vertical! But last week Immigration Minister Marc Miller informed us that "it is unhealthy to link housing to the volume of people that are coming here."
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What's happening in Brampton is the future of all of Canada if we don't stop mass immigration.
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"I do feel like I am a stranger in my own country." A Brampton resident says that her community is feeling overwhelmed by mass immigration and rapid demographic change in the city.
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This is the lineup for job openings at a Food Basics in Hamilton. Mass immigration means an endless supply of cheap labour competing for scarce jobs. Cutting off immigration would mean companies competing with each other to offer citizens better wages and conditions.
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A majority of every Canadian region included in this Abacus poll wants lower immigration. Has a single premier reflected the will of their province on this issue?
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At a Khalistan demonstration in Calgary, Sikh protestors used daggers and swords to rip apart Indian flags. Supporters of India gathered on the other side of the street and shouted back. When Canada imports the world, we import the world's problems.
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Job fair applicants line up around a building in Toronto. Canadians are told we need mass immigration because of a "labour shortage".
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This is how long the lineup was for a McDonald's job fair in Kitchener last summer. McDonald's used to be mostly staffed by high schoolers and university students. The idea of a general labour shortage is a myth used to justify mass immigration.
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Everyone charged so far in the Toronto Pearson Airport gold heist is of immigrant stock. Canada needs to strictly scrutinize and limit immigration from high-crime countries. And I'm sure law-abiding, patriotic immigrants will agree with me! 🇨🇦
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The red line is rent inflation. The green line is population growth. While Canada's political elites refuse to debate mass immigration, the people reap the consequences.
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Shocking video: Speaking to a crowd of Indian immigrants, Poilievre calls for a halt to the deportation of 700 international students with fake admission letters. He says that "we have a demographic problem, our population is too old - we need 700 young people".
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Danielle Smith claimed that Sikhs "quite literally built the foundations" of Alberta in the early 1900s. In 1911, there were 23 Sikhs in the province – or 0.01% of the population.
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Canada's population increased by 825,000 in 2022, and more than 1.2 million in 2023. Prior to this, to see growth of more than 600,000 in a year, you have to go back to 1949 - and that was because Newfoundland joined Confederation! This is simply unsustainable.
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"A British subject I was born — a British subject I will die. With my utmost effort, with my latest breath, will I oppose the ‘veiled treason’ which attempts by sordid means and mercenary proffers to lure our people from their allegiance." - John A. Macdonald, 1891
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MPs sing God Save the King in the House of Commons after defeating a motion that would have made the oath to Canada's monarch optional for MPs. Major republican L today in the House of Commons. 🇨🇦
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This is one of the most horrifying Canadian graphs. Orange line is housing starts. Blue line is change in adult population (mass immigration). Is it any wonder that we have a housing crisis?
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Editorial cartoon in the Winnipeg Free Press by Greg Perry - June 21st, 2023. The number is already out of date, which just proves his point. We are now closer to 41 million than 40 million.
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Youth employment in Canada is trending down. When applying to a Canadian Tire or a Tim Hortons, young Canadians now find themselves competing against 900,000 international students and 777,000 foreign workers (as of 2021).
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Dystopian, depressing, soul-crushing apartment blocks going up in Canadian towns. East Asian levels of urban densification are coming if we don't stop mass immigration in its tracks.
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Woah Chilliwack
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Editorial cartoon by David Parkins, Globe and Mail. Where's the lie?
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N.B. Premier Blaine Higgs says it like it is: "OK, what is the root cause of our housing crisis? You know, record immigration." He is now being accused of stoking xenophobia - but the majority of Canadians agree with him 100%.
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Just months after hitting the 40 million mark, Canada's population is already nearing 41 million because of mass immigration. Canadians, how does this make you feel?
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If you support Canada's policy of immigration-driven population growth, you can't call yourself an environmentalist.
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The only "systemic racism" which exists in Canada in 2024 is against white people.
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This is the lineup for work at a single restaurant in Mississauga. Corporate interests are pushing the "labour shortage" line to ensure a constant flow of cheap overseas labour keeps Canadian wages low.
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An ex-Sikh speaks out about how "rampant, negligent immigration" is creating ethnic enclaves in Canada. He explains that many politicians in Sikh enclaves are engaging in "ghetto politics" to leverage power in Parliament.
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More than 355,000 international students became permanent residents from 2021-2023. The international student program isn't about studying anymore, it's a backdoor to citizenship.
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TD donates to the Century Initiative immigration lobby, and has now signed a deal with an Indian bank to attract international students. Corporate interests are selling Canada out.
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TD signs deal with Indian bank HDFC to attract students looking to study in Canada
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From Feb. 2023 to Feb. 2024, Canada saw 8% population growth among males aged 20-24 as a result of mass immigration. Niger, where women have an average of six babies each, saw just 4.4%. I think I hear a rip in the social fabric.
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Not one mention of cutting immigration in Poilievre's speech at the Canada Strong and Free conference. 82% of Conservative voters want lower immigration.
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CPC MP and Shadow Minister for Housing @ScottAAitchison is asked about a poll showing 2/3 of Canadians link immigration with housing prices. He says immigration levels aren't a problem, we "need more Canadians", and we can just build more housing. Divorced from reality.
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Canada doesn't have a housing shortage, we have an immigration overload.
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We are told that mass immigration "grows Canada's GDP." But our GDP *per capita* (economic output per person) is declining faster than any other G7 country! And Japan, much criticized for its closed borders, is much higher than us 🤔
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In this clip, Poilievre promises to *increase* the number of foreign workers by expanding Express Entry to more occupations. He also says he will make it easier for Temporary Foreign Workers to get citizenship. There are 924,000 TFWs in Canada. This is not Canada First.
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Today in Durham, Maxime Bernier pledged to abolish all federal Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, calling them "fundamentally racist". It's great to see a politician standing up against this blatantly anti-white ideology which has taken hold in our institutions.
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Anglo Canada has two choices: (1) develop an unapologetic pride in its heritage like Quebec or (2) dissolve into a post-national state of squabbling diasporas.
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Wow! Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton masterfully exposes how mass immigration artificially depresses wages. During historic periods of immigration restriction, wages rose - especially for society's lowest earning groups. No wonder banks and corporations love open borders!
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These three Indian nationals have been charged for the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey. They arrived in Canada on student visas, and had been living in Edmonton for 3 years. Canada's open-door immigration policy has consequences.
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The same Canadian neighbourhood, 20 years apart. You can't call yourself an environmentalist if you don't oppose immigration-driven population growth and the paving of Canada.
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One of Canada's worst immigration programs is "foreign visa trainees". Hundreds of foreign nationals, mostly from the oil-rich Gulf States, are given scarce residency spots in Canadian medical schools - and then return home with the expertise!
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The biggest winners of mass immigration are banks, large corporations, developers, and speculators. The biggest losers are Canadians.
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Starting April 30th, international students won't be allowed to work more than 20 hours/week. Good! But why should foreign students be allowed to work off-campus at all? How does that help Canadians?
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Majorities in all regions, all age groups, all parties, both sexes (and both immigrants and the native-born) think Canada's immigration levels are too high. The only group that disagrees is Canada's elite.
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To understand Canada's mass immigration policy, it's important to understand the corporate interests funding it. Century Initiative is an influential immigration lobby that wants to raise the population to 100 million. Here's what I found in their 2022 donor list: Thread 1/6
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In this video at a Sikh event in Malton, Poilievre pledges to speed up family reunification, work visas, and refugee admissions. 67% of Canadians, and 82% of Conservative voters, want lower immigration. When will Poilievre reflect the will of the majority on immigration?
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In his True North interview, Poilievre says Canada "should actually be able to build" the 450-500K houses a year needed for our current immigration levels. This isn't conservatism, it's a surreal Ponzi scheme that will pave farmland, densify neighbourhoods, and overcrowd cities.
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The Century Initiative says cutting the flood of cheap foreign labour would lower Canada's GDP by a whopping 0.7%. I speak for most Canadians when I say that's a price I'm more than happy to pay!
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A recent report from Desjardins found that lowering non-permanent resident admissions could cause Canada's GDP to shrink by as much as 0.7%, deepening the recession expected in 2024 and dampening the subsequent recovery. Read the report here: #GrowingWell
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In September, I exposed Conservative Deputy Leader @TimUppal for promising to scrap the English test for immigrants. Now, Uppal is recording political videos in Punjabi. Politicians speaking foreign languages in an official capacity risk turning Canada into a Tower of Babel.
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Feds cutting foreign worker numbers by 19% shows they are nervous about the shift in public opinion against mass immigration. Immigration restriction is rising - let's keep the pressure up! 🇨🇦
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Making diversity the basis of Canadian identity means that every other culture is celebrated besides our own.
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Is this Canadian music or Indian music? There are some who want you to believe that this is Canadian music as it was performed at the Junos last night. Karan Aujla, who won a Juno, was born in India and is a citizen of India. He holds PR status in Canada. What do you think?
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The top reason given for mass immigration is our low fertility rate. But 1/3 of young Canadians are setting aside plans for a family for financial reasons, chiefly the high cost of housing - which is caused by mass immigration. Something doesn't add up.
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Canada is currently 23% foreign-born. By 2036, this is projected to rise to 30%. What percentage foreign-born does Canada need to become before we are sufficiently "diverse"?
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This just in: "the experts" have found that adding 1.3 million newcomers to a country in one year messes with the healthcare system. Who could have guessed?
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New study says long waits for health care in Canada are driven by high demand, not low supply of doctors. By @Campbellian_ #cdnpoli (subs)
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The National Bank is warning that mass immigration has put Canada in a "population trap". A population trap is when a population is growing so fast that an increase in living standards is not possible. This is normally only seen in emerging economies like India or Indonesia.
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More than 3.1 million Canadians are on a healthcare waitlist - 6 million have no family doctor! The Trudeau government flooded Canada with nearly 1.3 million immigrants in 2023 - only 8,000 were healthcare workers. Did politicians never learn about supply and demand?
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Immigration restriction is going mainstream in Canada - and there's nothing the elites can do to stop it.
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Canada's wave of car thefts is worst in places with large immigrant populations, like Brampton. When car theft rings are exposed, they are often (not always) disproportionately of immigrant stock. We need to be able to discuss this reality without fear of political correctness.
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This is the Stats Can projection of Toronto's ethnic makeup in 2041. Canadians never voted for such a dramatic change in their country's character.
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Between 2000 and 2019, the number of international students with T4 earnings increased from 22,000 to 354,000. During this same period, their labour force participation rate increased from 18% to 50%. For many, this program is not about studying - it's a backdoor work visa.
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I'm confused. How did the Canadian pioneers and settlers manage to build the whole country, and countless farms and industries, if the "essential to our economy" Temporary Foreign Worker program was only established in 1973?
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If Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program (established in 1973) is so essential to our economy, why did we do just fine without it for the first 100 years after Confederation?
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Doug Ford: Canada's worst premier? - Says "unwavering support for immigration" is a "core Canadian value" - Stands by while woke ideology spreads in Ontario schools - Endless scandals - Wants his developer buddies to pave the greenbelt to make space for more immigrants
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There are now 2.5 million non-permanent residents (foreign workers and foreign students) in Canada. This is equivalent to: - 2 Saskatchewans - 5 Newfoundlands - 2.5 Nova Scotias Why would a country allow the massive growth of a population of non-citizens within its borders?
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It is increasingly apparent in everyday life that English is on the decline in many Canadian cities. Anglo Canadian provinces should take inspiration from Quebec's approach and pass strong legislation to protect our language!
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As of now: All agree on mass immigration. All agree on transgender children. All agree on men in women's washrooms, sports and prisons. All agree on free trade. None will call out anti-white racism. None will question multiculturalism. This is how strong Canada's taboos are.
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At a Sikh Khalsa Day celebration, Poilievre pledged a direct flight to the Punjabi city of Amritsar and touted his "blue seal" immigrant doctor licensing policy. 67% of Canadians, and 82% of Conservatives, want lower immigration. This diaspora pandering is unacceptable.
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Singing O Canada in Punjabi is an affront to Anglo Canada. Québec has the right to preserve its ancestral French language. Anglo Canada has the right to preserve its English language. Patriotic immigrants are happy to learn an official language, not impose a foreign one. 🇨🇦
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How about we train up young Canadians instead of stealing doctors and nurses from the Third World?
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Poilievre says Trudeau opened the immigration "floodgates", promises a "formula that links population growth to...housing". He is being forced to finally speak like this because of the public's growing outrage. Immigration restriction is rising. Let's keep the pressure up! 🇨🇦
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"Canadians never asked for the population growth that the federal government is imposing on them. They did not ask for every patch of undeveloped land to which they had access to sprout a high-rise or two."
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Cringe: a portion of Anaida Poilievre's speech at the Conservative Party convention was in Spanish. There are two official languages in Canada: English and French. No other language should be spoken on stage in a Canadian political convention.
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Quite a few immigrants agree with my opposition to mass immigration - the ones who don't want to see Canada turned into the country they left.
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Canada’s population grew by 825,000 in 2022, and more than 1.2 million in 2023. The last time that Canada’s population grew by more than 600,000 in one year was 1949 – because Newfoundland joined Confederation!
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New Zealand tightens work visa rules, bolsters English requirements in crackdown on "unsustainable" immigration levels.
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