This is unprecedented: last weekend, the Minister of Immigration, Marc Miller, lamented the poor performance of his own government in matters of… immigration.
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“Out of control”, “disconcerting”, the minister used adjectives giving the impression that he was a member of the opposition holding the government to account.
Around a hundred thousand temporary residents enter Canada EVERY MONTH (!). These temporary residents include students, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers.
Regular immigrants represented some 1.2 million people in 2022.
However, we still do not know how to decently house all these new arrivals.
However, we are talking about more than two million people per year, all categories combined.
I am personally in favor of immigration, but everything must be planned and well managed, otherwise chaos sets in and that is precisely what we are experiencing.
Two years ago, senior public administration in Ottawa warned Trudeau of the enormous housing shortage that awaited us if nothing changed.
So what is happening was not only predictable, it was planned!
The scandal is that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has done absolutely nothing, despite warnings from its officials.
China and India
For more than a year, things haven’t been much better for Trudeau internationally.
From the fall of 2022, he alienated one of the most influential countries in the world: China. On the sidelines of a G-7 summit in Indonesia, Trudeau and his team boasted of having scolded the Chinese head of state for his country’s interference in the Canadian elections.
When Canadians wanted to know more, Trudeau did everything to block a serious investigation. Today, we understand better why.
It seems in fact that Chinese interference was primarily aimed at the conservatives. If the Liberals did nothing, it was because it was to their advantage.
Then, in September 2023, it was the turn of India – the most populous country in the world and a leading economic partner – to be at odds with Canada.
Trudeau then accused India of having orchestrated the assassination of a Canadian citizen. Four months later, the evidence in this regard is still awaited, even if this serious accusation seems plausible.
The manner in which this has been made public by Trudeau is at the root of the problem with India, and the broken pots will be difficult to repair.
Melanie Joly
More recently, the declarations of Trudeau and his minister Mélanie Joly concerning the action brought by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice gave rise to a veritable festival of stupidity.
The State of Israel is the victim of a bloody terrorist attack by Hamas, in which some 1,200 people were killed and hundreds more were kidnapped.
South Africans accuse Israel of committing genocide in its retaliatory war against Hamas.
Initially, we understood that Trudeau was adopting the same position as the United States in this matter, by rejecting the very premise of the appeal brought by South Africa.
But two days later, Trudeau once again ridiculed Canada, “clarifying” that rejecting this basic premise did not mean he would not accept a conclusion based on this false premise. .
It makes no sense. What a shame!