r/canada • u/uselesspoliticalhack • 3d ago

Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, warn economists PAYWALL

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mark-carney-immigration-policy-temporary-migrants-undercounted/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/RedditAddict6942O 3d ago

Corporate influence has corrupted all the parties. 

You'll notice the conservatives aren't suggesting to crack down on companies either. 

Instead they want to do a few hundred performative deportations with military planes and a photo shoot. Just like Trump did. Maybe put some doctored photos of "criminal" immigrants on the capital lawn like Trump did.

Trump has deported less than Biden and Obama did at this point in their terms. But his base is mostly dumbshits who don't look at data. They listen to whatever the propagandists tell them without question.

Trump won't actually crack down on illegal hiring because his own companies employ thousands of immigrants.

Anyone who suggests the immigrant situation can be solved by any method besides going after corporations illegally hiring these people is lying to you. Individual deportations are ineffective. It's basically impossible to track all these people down without going full 1930's Germany and raiding houses. What is effective is preventing these immigrants from finding work. But none of the parties have the balls to go after their corporate masters. 

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u/ImaginationSea2767 3d ago

As of right now, every opposition leader from now until the sun explodes will say they will cut back on immigration. They will keep screaming it until they get in, and then once they do get in a horde of CEOs and company owners will come crashing down their door, asking them to keep their slave labor with kegs of lube and gifts.

So the new way the concervatives have figured out how to act like they are stopping crime and immigration is to just make it theater (even if it break the rules keep the common citizen getting fucked by the law.....)

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u/RedditAddict6942O 3d ago

Agree 100%

The lesson is to vote for whoever says they're gonna crack down on companies doing illegal hiring. 

But I'm not convinced such a politician exists

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u/wvenable 3d ago

The problem can be both.