Are the Job Vacancies and Labour Shortages Real in Canada?

 "....Employment insurance programs in Atlantic Canada are exacerbating the issue because the rules encourage people to stay in seasonal positions even though there are full-time jobs available, says the report.

Each year, the number of employed people in Atlantic Canada falls by almost 60,0000 between August and December. Meanwhile, EI claims during that period spike by more than 20,000. This seasonal disparity appears to be out of whack with employment patterns in the rest of Canada.

The report calls for major changes to the EI program..."

The Globe and Mail: Employers, Ottawa must change approach to temporary workers, experts warn.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/article-employers-ottawa-must-change-approach-to-temporary-workers-experts/

In a Bilingual Country, Immigration Services Lacking Any Canadian Duty Spreading Their Own Reactions to Quebec's Bill 96: Where Will 500,000 Land Annually Each Year - Toronto, Vancouver

https://www.cicnews.com/2023/01/the-national-response-to-quebecs-french-language-preserving-bill-96-0132350.html 

Canada's Birth Tourism: The First Baby Born in Vancouver Was to Two Egyptian Parents That Had Never Set Foot In Canada

 As a sign of just how prevalent birth tourism has become in Vancouver, the city’s first baby of 2023 was born to a birth tourist. Hana Amr Fouad was born just before 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day at Vancouver’s St. Paul’s Hospital, according to a profile in Vancouver Is Awesome. Baby Hana’s parents are both Egyptian nationals who have never previously been to Canada, but they arranged for a Vancouver birth so that the baby would obtain instant Canadian citizenship under the country’s “jus soli” laws. “We chose Canada because the Canadian passport is better,” said Hana’s father Amr Fouad, explaining that it was a choice between Canada or the U.S. Several hundred such births occur in the Vancouver area every year. Richmond Hospital, in particular, has reported that as many as one quarter of its birthing mothers are non-residents looking to secure Canadian citizenship for their baby.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/u-s-consultancy-behind-canadas-immigration

More Reasons to Make Immigration an Independent Body Rather Than Subject to Whimsical, Reckless Government Policies to Gain Another Term

 Another reason to render independence to the Ministry of Immigration (similar to the Bank of Canada, Courts) from whimsical, reckless government policies and virtuous vote buying.

"...McKinsey & Co. — a multi-billion dollar global consultancy firm with five locations in Canada —only scored the occasional contract with the Canadian federal government in the years preceding the 2015 election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In the seven years since, Radio-Canada investigators uncovered $66 million in mostly sole-sourced McKinsey contracts, including $24.5 million to provide “management advice” to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.

The number of new Canadians coming in each year had steadily risen throughout the 2000s, ultimately peaking above 250,000 in 2015, the last year of the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. But that figure has since expanded considerably, reaching 431,645 new permanent residents in 2022. It’s a quantity of immigrants that surpasses even the meteoric heights seen during the years immediately preceding the First World War, when hundreds of thousands of European immigrants were moved in to homestead the prairies..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/u-s-consultancy-behind-canadas-immigration

What Are the Final Amouht of Immigrants and Newcomers to Canada? The 500,000 per Year Does Not Include Foreign Students (+600,000 Already in Canada) Temporary Foreign Workers Nor Roxham Rd Asylum Seekers

 "...These numbers don’t include temporary foreign workers or international students, which are also rising at record rates.

This sort of rapid swell isn’t just historic for Canada, it makes us the fastest-growing country in the G7. This would be great news, if not for the fact that we’re also among the least equipped to accept a mass influx of new people..."

National Post: Sabrina Maddeaux: Liberals bring in influx of immigrants without a plan to support them.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-liberals-bring-in-influx-of-immigrants-without-a-plan-to-support-them

Canada's Porous Border and Roxham Rd Open for Business Again: 34,478 Asylum Seekers in 2022 (After Being "Shut Down" in 2020, 2021)

 "...RCMP intercepted 34,478 asylum seekers who did not use official ports of entry to enter Quebec between January and November of 2022, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. That’s compared to 4,095 interceptions for all of 2021, and 3,189 in 2020, when Roxham Road was mostly shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The checkpoint was reopened in November 2021..."

https://nationalpost.com/news/mans-body-found-near-roxham-road-unofficial-border-crossing-in-quebec

Five years in the making now another $500 million needed. Canada's 2.6 billion government employees payment system.

 Five years in the making now another $500 million needed. Canada's 2.6 billion government employees payment system.

"...The Phoenix pay system debacle was quite rightly called “an international embarrassment” by a Senate report five years ago. Most Canadians probably assume the failures that resulted in pay problems for 80 per cent of the federal government’s 300,000 public servants have been resolved.

But that is not the case. In fact, things are getting worse.

Sources tell the Post that Public Services and Procurement Canada, the department responsible for Phoenix, has asked for an extra $500 million to “stabilize” the problem in the face of a rising backlog of cases. Last year, government expenditure on Phoenix was $713.7 million across all departments, according to Treasury Board’s departmental results report. In 2019, the Parliamentary Budget Office estimated the cost of correcting Phoenix’s data problems at $2.6 billion. That now looks like an underestimate..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/phoenix-payroll-civil-servants