Canada

Holy shit. Whaaaaaat?

Et tu, Bruté?

Shameful. Seeking asylum is a fundamental human right under Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that Canada has voted for and signed. This supposed centrist government is literally trampling on the fundamental human rights and on Canada's own treaty obligations.

Shame shame shame shame on the minority Liberal government for proposing it and for any party that enables them to pass it.

The number of new refugee claims Canada receives each year has surged in the last decade from about 16,000 to 190,000 in 2024, though it dropped significantly to 107,800 last year.

I know a lot of people are lamenting the change, but I can't help but read this line above from the article, and think about the findings from the recent auditor general's report related to Student Visa Frauds. The AG report noted that Canada's government had capacity to investigate 2000 fraud cases per year -- but that it received around 75000 such allegations per year.

A huge gap between how people 'wish' the country worked/functioned on that front, and the reality.

With a surge of more than 10x in a short period, our government is overwhelmed on this front. Just like our healthcare system is overwhelmed -- I've had relatives on wait lists for specialists for years at this point. Pretty much all of Canada's gov functions seem incapable of keeping up, even with bloated public servant numbers (under Trudeau, they hit a record of like 22% of working people working for public sector, iirc).

We need immigration of all sorts, but it needs to be managed at a level we can handle as a country. If our government can't even come close to processing their basic paperwork in a timely manner, it'd be crazy to think our other systems that require a whole lot more than pushing a button/admin paperwork, such as healthcare and housing, would be able to keep up with the increased demand. Putting in stricter conditions for refugee claims, given that the system is likely overwhelmed by the volume, makes practical sense.

Apparently whatever disease the US has is contagious.

So fuck the refugees but TFWs are fine? What the fuck, Carney? I don't care about how much the demand for refugee status has increase, those numbers can be directly subtracted from the amount of TFWs we bring in. They can complain about fraud all they like but IMO it's a ridiculous argument to make while ever corporations are allowed to scam our country with temporary foreign workers. I'd much rather high refugee numbers and immigration numbers than high temporary worker numbers.

Most of the people seeking asylum are coming from places where U.S (and those that supported them, like Canada) are directly responsible for the economic instability. The civil wars. The dictators and corrupt governments that these people are fleeing from.

Why do they flee to other countries ?

Because we have a strong hand in creating chaos in theirs. Yet we deny them a place to live in peace.

I feel terrible for the people who were promised refugee status and now are thrown to the wayside. Why does this have to be retroactive? Is it really so important to ditch the last 6 months' refugees?

I am truly disgusted by this shit. What have we become?

supported by Conservatives, backed by the Liberals, whispers from the NDP.

I've said it before and i'll say it again, our political system is a joke. We have conservatives, conservatives in sheeps clothing, and a party that hasn't had an original thought in its head since Jack Layton passed away.

Every time I go to the polls all I can think is "which type of shit am I more willing to tolerate eating this time?"

Looking forward to seeing how the Carney supporters twist this one.

Quick edit to tell people to check out the Migrant Rights Network website and to get involved with them.

Wtf

The behavior of the liberals over the past decade or so made me wonder how and why did anyone think of liberals as being 'soft'. These guys have hearts of stone.

inhuman cruelty