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There was a “Canada First Rally” recently in Toronto, to “Stop mass immigration. Start mass deportations” according to the social media poster for the event. But here’s the catch: our immigration system already runs on a Canada First principle. Who is admitted, who is rejected, who is left in limbo is always structured around what Canada needs, not what immigrants...
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s latest call to scrap the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program has everything to go viral: a simple villain (migrant workers), an innocent victim (Canadian youth) and a big hammer (abolish the program). It’s politics reverse-engineered for engagement. The outrage is the point. The policy is the prop. As the journalism world calls it, the topic is...
In 2023, Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that explicitly banned nearly all Chinese immigrants for nearly a quarter century. Many see it as a black mark in Canadian history because it deliberately targeted and expelled the very Chinese labourers who had done the dangerous, back-breaking work of building the Canadian Pacific Railway, only...
While the headlines are fixated on border walls, what’s quietly unfolding under Donald Trump’s second term is far more consequential: the United States has supercharged immigration enforcement to historic levels. The “Big Beautiful Bill,” which has just been passed, has ballooned ICE’s budget by more than 200 per cent, giving it more funds than the entire military budgets of many...
When I was 9 years old and my immigrant family moved to Holland Landing, Ont., to operate the hamlet’s sole Chinese food restaurant, I was told often by well-meaning locals that we were “good immigrant,” and the “right type” to let in. As early as the age of 9, it was pressed upon me that bad immigrants exist and they...