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Calliban

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From: Northern England, UK

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Re: Politics

Time for Starmer to come clean on what Net Zero means.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tim … strictions

The attack on UK farming is only the beginning.

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RobertDyck

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Re: Politics

Starmer has announced that Labour plan to cut immigration. Down from close to a million a year (the "Boriswave"). We'll see how it goes. Seems though that the Anglosphere is finally closing the main doors; Trudeu has announced Canada will be severely curtailed immigration also.

I mean, maybe we'll still be running at 200k a year. Which is still bad, but nowhere near as bad as 900k a year.

Reuters: Fact Check: Trudeau announced Canada immigration cuts, not freeze

The department said that Canada will reduce the number of new permanent residents, opens new tab it plans to accept from 500,000 to 395,000 in 2025 and 380,000 in 2026. A target of 365,000 has been set for 2027.

The plan’s targets aim to “pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term,” according to the government’s news release, and the plan’s reduced targets include temporary residents – international students and foreign workers already in Canada – applying to become permanent residents.

The new immigration targets move away from pandemic-era policies, in which the Canadian government had previously relaxed rules for temporary residents to tackle labor shortages.
In January, Canada announced a two-year cap on international student permits and said it would also stop giving work permits to some students after graduation.

Canada’s Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced plans to cap temporary immigration in March. The cap would reduce temporary residents to 5% of the total population over the next three years from 6.2% in 2023.

We don't have a labour shortage. The issue was the government paid people to stay home, called "COVID payments". When restrictions started to lift, many people in low income jobs just didn't want to go back to work. They stayed home, lived on the "COVID payments". One restaurant where I go regularly, the manager told me they had difficulty getting servers to come back to work. Another restaurant, a buffet, didn't survive COVID. In December 2021, they didn't know when restrictions would lift, so completely closed the restaurant. The building was demolished. Trudeau just doesn't want to accept responsibility for his actions.

In 2023, Canada welcomed 471,808 immigrants and 804,901 non-permanent residents (NPRs), making a total of 1,276,709 newcomers:

If the government believes all those "non-permanent residents" intend to leave, they're delusional.

2021 Census of Population: 8,361,505 immigrants, with 23% of the population being immigrants

Now when I apply for a computer software development job within my own city, I'm asked "work status". When I tell them citizen and that I was born here, they're amazed. The majority of recruiters now have a Hindi accent (from India).