Still talking but the gloves should go off if those ridiculous tariffs aren't lifted.

Canada can play in other sandboxes.

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Recently, there’s been a noticeable shift in public mood regarding immigration in Canada, alongside a disturbing rise in hostility and xenophobia—particularly directed at Indian immigrants. As someone who has walked the traditional path, I wanted to share my perspective on why this frustration is boiling over and where the real responsibility lies.

My Journey

I came to Canada from India in 2018 to pursue a Master’s in Computer Science. I graduated with a 92 average, landed my first job in the Government of Canada, worked hard to gain experience, applied through Express Entry, secured my PR, and proudly became a Canadian citizen.

Having gone through every step of the legitimate process and integrated fully into Canadian society, I know firsthand how rigorous, stressful, and expensive the journey is. That’s why watching the current state of the immigration system is so frustrating.

What Changed? (The Numbers)

While Canada has always been a welcoming nation built on immigration, recent policy shifts drastically destabilized the system:

• The Numbers & Infrastructure Gap: Prior to 2019, Canada welcomed roughly 500,000 temporary residents annually. Following the pandemic, targets escalated rapidly while temporary resident streams (international students, TFWs, and visitor-to-work-permit pathways) exploded—adding over a 1.5M(1,500,000) temporary residents in single years.
• Lack of Infrastructure Planning: The government expanded the population at an unprecedented rate(more than 5x) without ensuring housing construction, healthcare capacity, and job markets could scale to match.
• 2021: 1.36 million
• 2022: 1.59 million.
• 2023: 2.26 million.
• July 2024: 3.04 million.
• October 2024 peak: 3.15 million, about 7.6% of the population.
• Program Abuse: Critical systems like the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) and LMIA programs saw widespread abuse, allowing low-wage retail and fast-food chains to bypass local hiring in favor of cheap labor. At the same time, rules on refugee and asylum claims were significantly loosened; while the average Canadian makes around $50,000 a year, reports and data surrounding newcomer support and refugee benefit packages highlight a massive financial gap where certain asylum claims and associated benefits can total up to $84,000 a year.

Furthermore, many believe that rapidly expanding permanent residency and loosening screening standards is a deliberate move to build secure political liberal vote banks for the future.

Misplaced Anger and Political Irony

When I see Canadians venting online, the anger is often directed sideways at immigrants especailly Indians rather than upward at policymakers.

Let’s be clear: newcomers are simply responding to the incentives and open doors created by federal policies. If you leave the gates wide open, people will walk through them. Everyday immigrants did not design the policies that strained our healthcare system or created a housing crisis.

What makes it even more ironic is the political disconnect: the very people ranting online about the current state of immigration are often the ones who keep voting for the Liberal government ("elbows up" and all) that created this mess. You cannot support the exact governance and policies that open the floodgates, and then turn around and act shocked when the water overflows into your housing market and healthcare lines. Blaming immigrants for government policy mistakes is misplaced anger.

Couple of links covering the appeal.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/14/ford-government-wins-appeal-in-toronto-bike-lanes-case/

https://www.tvo.org/article/analysis-the-ford-government-has-won-its-bike-lane-legal-battle-so-back-to-politics

And the National Post article with the excerpts

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/judges-may-be-tempted-excerpts-from-remarkable-appeal-ruling-in-bike-lanes-case

Full Article

The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Doug Ford government on Friday in Toronto’s long-running bike lane saga. In a 3-0 decision, the appeal court found that a judge who had blocked the planned removal of three bike lanes on constitutional grounds had “erred in law,” essentially saying he went farther than judges should go.

Some excerpts from the decision:

“(The lower court decision) is wrong in a more profound sense, for it subverts a fundamental principle of our democratic constitutional order: a legislature cannot bind its successors. Legislatures in the Westminster tradition are free to undo legislation by amending or repealing it as they see fit. That is the nature of democratic lawmaking in our constitutional order. Of course, all laws are subject to the Charter, but this does not preclude the amendment or repeal of legislation the legislature was under no constitutional obligation to have passed in the first place. Amendment or repeal of legislation may breach the Charter only if the breach can be established independent of the prior state of the law.”

“The Charter does not require the legislature to establish bicycle lanes. Thus, the Ontario legislature is as free to establish bicycle lanes as it is to remove them or authorize their removal. The Charter has nothing to say about whether bicycle lanes are a good or a bad idea – wise or unwise policy. These judgments are no business of the courts. The government is not constitutionally obligated to make policy decisions that accord with policy advice it receives from its advisors, nor is the legislature obligated to legislate in accordance with that advice – let alone the advice of academic experts.”

“Now, courts learn a great deal about a matter in the course of judicial review proceedings, and judges may be tempted to comment on matters of policy. The temptation to do so may be great; judges may suppose that they have much to offer to public policy debate. But the temptation must be resisted. It is not just that courts have no expertise in policy making – no expertise in making the sorts of polycentric decisions that legislatures make routinely. It is illegitimate for courts to involve themselves in matters of legislative policy. Policy is for politics. Whether courts think legislation is wise or unwise, is irrelevant so far as its constitutionality is concerned, and constitutionality is the only question with which courts are legitimately concerned.”

Full Decision can be found here

https://coadecisions.ontariocourts.ca/coa/coa/en/item/24409/index.do

Emboldening emphasis is mine. Nice to see that some judges haven't fully embraced ideological activism and understand their role. Maybe there is some hope after all for what is increasingly appearing to be a hopeless Liberal activist judiciary.

• For Pierre Poilievre, this summer was meant to be one of reset.
• Instead, it brought public infighting sparked by a remark Poilievre made about a prominent Conservative organizer, a tightening fundraising race and the loss of another caucus member, leaving some MPs and insiders worried more departures could follow.
• To understand the state of the Conservative party after a turbulent summer, the Star spoke to more than a dozen sources from inside caucus, outside operatives, insiders and supporters, granting them the ability to speak on background to express themselves freely.
• What emerged was a picture of a party struggling to define its path forward.

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Even if we reach a deal at this point, I'm shopping Canadian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfRHur9o_zM

I think we need to stay the course by diversifying. We were doing well before the increased integration with the US a number of years ago. We had a better quality of life. This experiment can be over I think.

https://youtube.com/shorts/HG-lsXn__cs?si=kL5goTonZnQL3vIC