None of the streams these students took inherently guaranteed PR though. Yes it sucks for them that Canada and its provinces have exercised their discretionary powers over immigration levels which affects their PR outcomes, but that was part of the deal. If these are indeed ‘exceptional’ talents, you’d think having the critical capability to understand your immigration situation is within cognitive reach. If someone promised them something and they got grifted, go after the grifter rather than bemoaning a country exercising its sovereignty.
RNTMA on
So the Ontario/Federal government have finally decided to fix this problem, and here comes the NDP talking about how this is such a terrible thing. Not only are they completely offside with public opinion, there aren’t even any votes to win here, as these people cannot vote.
>The employers and the communities that depend on those workers need them, she said. In northern Ontario, Gilmour said, whole communities are counting on these trades workers.
Sure they are
toilet_for_shrek on
The first guy has a pretty good chance of getting in if he gets his PhD.
>“I am done with Canada. I’ve done everything I could do for this economy. And then, if this is how I’m going to be treated, then I’m sorry, no thank you. I’m a human too,” Ankit Kumar Patel said.
Meanwhile, the second guy here has finally realized that he was never valued as “talent”, but that he and hundreds of thousands of others in the same position were gears in a system created by the corporations and sponsored by the feds to suppress Canadian wages.
>She said there were 2,600 applicants under the now-suspended trades stream. She called on the government to reopen the applications and give them “due process.”
And speaking of wage suppression, here’s the NDP again showcasing why they got decimated in the last election by advocating for foreign workers instead of the Canadian workers whose wages end up suppressed because of them.
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> More than a year later, on Nov. 14, the provincial government, in an update posted an on the ONIP web page, announced the indefinite suspension of the program’s skilled trades stream due to fraudulent applications in the system.
I’m honestly not thrilled with that solution, it veers into collective punishment territory. The government should be searching for ways to verify applications and provide extensions until they can do so.
Good-Medicine1066 on
>“So, 2026 is going to be tough for a lot of people… 2026 is going to be a year of enforcement… IRCC’s going to scrutinize every single application with more diligence than they ever did before.”
It is remarkable that IRCC was _not_ scrutinizing every single application with diligence. Do this, and enforce removal orders, and Canadians would likely be happy even with reasonably high levels. The rubber stamping mandate given under the Trudeau era is the true scandal of the immigration file.
OkRB2977 on
I understand people feel frustrated when life plans don’t pan out but permanent residence was never promised to everyone. This transition from a temporary resident to a permanent resident was never a guarantee.
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None of the streams these students took inherently guaranteed PR though. Yes it sucks for them that Canada and its provinces have exercised their discretionary powers over immigration levels which affects their PR outcomes, but that was part of the deal. If these are indeed ‘exceptional’ talents, you’d think having the critical capability to understand your immigration situation is within cognitive reach. If someone promised them something and they got grifted, go after the grifter rather than bemoaning a country exercising its sovereignty.
So the Ontario/Federal government have finally decided to fix this problem, and here comes the NDP talking about how this is such a terrible thing. Not only are they completely offside with public opinion, there aren’t even any votes to win here, as these people cannot vote.
>The employers and the communities that depend on those workers need them, she said. In northern Ontario, Gilmour said, whole communities are counting on these trades workers.
Sure they are
The first guy has a pretty good chance of getting in if he gets his PhD.
>“I am done with Canada. I’ve done everything I could do for this economy. And then, if this is how I’m going to be treated, then I’m sorry, no thank you. I’m a human too,” Ankit Kumar Patel said.
Meanwhile, the second guy here has finally realized that he was never valued as “talent”, but that he and hundreds of thousands of others in the same position were gears in a system created by the corporations and sponsored by the feds to suppress Canadian wages.
>She said there were 2,600 applicants under the now-suspended trades stream. She called on the government to reopen the applications and give them “due process.”
And speaking of wage suppression, here’s the NDP again showcasing why they got decimated in the last election by advocating for foreign workers instead of the Canadian workers whose wages end up suppressed because of them.
> More than a year later, on Nov. 14, the provincial government, in an update posted an on the ONIP web page, announced the indefinite suspension of the program’s skilled trades stream due to fraudulent applications in the system.
I’m honestly not thrilled with that solution, it veers into collective punishment territory. The government should be searching for ways to verify applications and provide extensions until they can do so.
>“So, 2026 is going to be tough for a lot of people… 2026 is going to be a year of enforcement… IRCC’s going to scrutinize every single application with more diligence than they ever did before.”
It is remarkable that IRCC was _not_ scrutinizing every single application with diligence. Do this, and enforce removal orders, and Canadians would likely be happy even with reasonably high levels. The rubber stamping mandate given under the Trudeau era is the true scandal of the immigration file.
I understand people feel frustrated when life plans don’t pan out but permanent residence was never promised to everyone. This transition from a temporary resident to a permanent resident was never a guarantee.