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Denyse I O'Leary's avatar

To what extent does Statistics Canada now exist simply to provide material for propaganda for the Liberals (Canada's Natural Governing Party)?

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Wolfe's avatar

$$$

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Carole Saville's avatar

I was hunting around for stats Canada information. Apparently our government feels there is anywhere between 20 to 500 thousand migrants/refugees are in the wind. I was trying to find out how many migrants/refugees spoke passable English or French prior to coming to Canada. Stats Canada seems to think it is 93%.

Alberta thinks that a quarter of the students in its school system do not speak passable English.

I think we don't have reliable data.

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leftiejane's avatar

speaking English and French upon arrival is not a necessary requirement for refugees, nor should it be.

https://open.substack.com/pub/leftiejane/p/were-headed-for-maple-ice-and-most?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Kevin's avatar

Born and educated in Canada, lived out of it 40 years. Occ back to see family. Not incompetent to comment. Even though it is harder to get accurate news out of the place now than downed pilots out of Vichy France 1943. That’s by design.

You are a skateboarder hanging on to the back edge of a truck now going way too fast for you.

Your leaders have lied, continue to cheat and lie, and pretend the conniving Europeans and you have something wonderful in common. Their elites and yours might. You don’t.

The worst crooks in the U.S. who your leaders needed to survive, are gone.

Alberta and Saskatchewan cannot be bought off like Quebec pretends to be, for a bit longer.

This is going to be bad.

I wish it wasn’t so.

But you voted as you did. And pretended.

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Ruth B.'s avatar

Eh, if liberals choose to avoid the US, that’s their business. The conservatives that I know are still enjoying their homes & southern vacations in San Diego & Phoenix. No one is boycotting anything, and why wd we? Because Carney is in a snit? It’s so ridiculous.

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Jerry Grant's avatar

I wonder if StatsCan just assumes everyone issued a deportation order has left.

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leftiejane's avatar

the fact that our country is issuing deportation notices to the degree that it will be soon is disgraceful

https://open.substack.com/pub/leftiejane/p/were-headed-for-maple-ice-and-most?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Jerry Grant's avatar

I disagree. Have a nice night.

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leftiejane's avatar

it's totally fine that you disagree, but that does say something about morals

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Jerry Grant's avatar

Or perhaps we have a different opinion about how many people the economy can support.

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Karen Benz's avatar

Listen Jane, I don't think deportation orders are issued to hard working, law abiding Canadians. Not disgraceful. The only thing disgraceful is that these cockroaches are invading our country in the numbers they are.

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leftiejane's avatar

if you actually read Bill c12, you would see that it does target law abiding, hard working people. You have no morals, and i think that's all there is left to say.

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Karen Benz's avatar

No morals. I'd check out your lefties friends if I were you.

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Johnny Lade's avatar

Reliable data from Statistics Canada is an oxymoron. They have become purveyors of misinformation, much like the judiciary, police, Elections Canada, and the CBC.

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julia payne's avatar

Bringing in immigrants to Canada faster than the country could absorb has done way more than affect the housing market. Look at infrastructure in large cities. Look at the utterly broken healthcare system, now functioning at third-world levels. Look at crime stats. And the worst part is that Canadians have been convinced that "diversity" versus integration was going to make their country stronger and better. Shared values, shared patriotism, and love of Canada, gratitude for being in Canada, and the desire to make the country wonderful will make the country strong....not division.

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Karen Benz's avatar

Well remember Julia some asshole said diversity is our strength.

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julia payne's avatar

No kidding!

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julia payne's avatar

If you say so

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leftiejane's avatar

it's not about what I say, it's about evidence over rhetoric

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shelley carrington's avatar

When they say Canadians tourism to the USA is down ,it’s not because of boycotting so much as it is travel insurance & the dollar .Many Canadians are still travelling to warmer climes in spite of what the Carney and his cohorts spew from their mouths. I know some elbows up who still own property in the 🇺🇸 and are not about to give it up for any boycott

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Ruth Brinston's avatar

Sorry I have forgotten Governor Ron DeSantis comments about the Stanley Cup win, if I think about it I don't care. How many Canadians vs Americans play on the teams who made it to the Stanley cup? I cheer for the Vegs Knights because a cousin has a Lord Stanley Cup ring on his finger.

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Charles "The Hammer" Martel's avatar

That omission was on purpose.

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Wolfe's avatar
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What a mess. lolllllll, no surprise at all...just passing the baton back and forth. Its been going on for a long, long time now. Liberal, Tory same old story $. NO democracy, NO leadership. Just spin, lies, bs daily....from all of them $$.100s of billions stolen out of Alberta and Sask., BC, Ont. since the 1960s, 70s. Equalization ( kebec=Ottawa govt money laundering)=(kebek takes over 50% every single year) became entrenched in his commie charter = kebek communist Pierre Trudeaus constitution of 1982. Since then, 25 years of Liberal govts have made things worse. 18 years of 'Conservative' govts, the exact same thing. Kebeks Charter = 10s of billions stolen out of Ottawa yearly and funneled into quebec and other metis (they are not french) – towns and companies, all across the country every year, all disguised as grants, subsides, equalization, transfers, bilingualism (code for french) – only outside quebec while kebec bans our language, history = bills 22, 178, 101, 96. Multiculturalism (only outside kebec), massive government growth, control, censorship, surveillance, taxes and debt. Canada now just liberals masquerading as conservatives, the rest, communists masquerading as liberals. ’French power’ in all provinces. They are revising, eliminating our BNA, UEL history all over the country as they rename, remove all things English, Scottish. Election fraud? YES, guaranteed. Why? Simple, they lie about everything. Why? Bigoted = Socialist = Marxist = commie = kebec runs the nation. This IS the problem, and No party, NO ‘leader’ will touch it. ‘Cons’ Poliver, Ford ? Nothing, not a word. “First quebec, and Ottawa and then the entire country” ‘french power..." PET. $ The commie - fascist takeover of Canada and when it began....proof – context- https://beforeitsnews.com/power-elite/2012/01/canada-how-the-communists-took-control-1637973.html We have no-one to vote for. Rise up, plan, train....revolt...Somebody, anybody...? HELP

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

So you don’t believe numbers from Statistics Canada but you believe that MAGA Santos is telling the complete truth. Yes, totally believable that Europeans, South Americans and Asian folks are piling into the US with all the ICE stuff going on. OK.

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julia payne's avatar

Tourists, visa holders, green card holders and legal citizens are not being arrested by ICE.

The Biden admin let in millions of unknowns. I presume that Canadians would be as opposed to that policy as Americans are. We cross back and forth all the time with our green cards and are unfailingly "welcomed home".

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

Most people I know don’t want anything to do with going to the US unless absolutely necessary.

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julia payne's avatar

What canadians should be concerned about is how many fewer americans want to come to canada....we spend 5 months in a high american-tourism area of ontario every year. We've watched the numbers dwindle by 70% since trudeau closed the border to americans for 2 years...now THAT is harming canadian business....you can preen all you like about not going to usa...but are you supporting your canadian small businesses? We sure don't see that where we go.

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

Trudeau closed the border to Americans? What on earth are you talking about? But you do realize that Trudeau

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

Isn’t the PM any longer.

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julia payne's avatar

Canada was closed for 2 years during covid. You do know that, don't you? And that trudeau was PM during that time????

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Karen Benz's avatar

Oh the elbows up crowd Kevin. I will go when and if I choose. I won't cut my nose off to spite my face.

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Kevin 🇨🇦's avatar

You can go wherever you want and I won’t give a rat’s arse. Just don’t spread disinformation.

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Wolfe's avatar

lolll, they ALL lie, daily $$$

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Karen Benz's avatar

Jane I would welcome ICE to get rid of the illegals since our elbows up government can't or won't.

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leftiejane's avatar

ok, so I guess you're racist and homophobic then. cool.

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Karen Benz's avatar

Only racist.

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julia payne's avatar

Brian...you opened a can of worms with this one

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leftiejane's avatar

I fear there's some misinformation here around immigration. The fact that we "can't absorb immigrants" is merely a result of the ruling class scapegoating immigrants for their own greed. We need immigrants.

https://open.substack.com/pub/leftiejane/p/were-headed-for-maple-ice-and-most?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

https://open.substack.com/pub/leftiejane/p/stop-scapegoating-immigrants-for?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewer

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Karen Benz's avatar

Maybe so Jane, but not the uneducated ones we are getting and not in the numbers we are getting them.

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leftiejane's avatar

you're talking about human beings like animals. you should be ashamed to have this on the internet.

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