Die Mehrheit der Kanadier stimmt Smith zu, dass die Provinzen eine stärkere Kontrolle über die Einwanderung haben sollten: Umfrage
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/majority-of-canadians-agree-with-smith-that-provinces-should-have-greater-control-over-immigration-poll
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Do people actually fall for stuff like this?
Who controls education?
Who cut education spending?
Who told them to go recruit international students?
Who approved those international students and then sent them to the Feds to rubber stamp?
If you were born in the last 10 years, I can imagine how this can all be a surprise to you.
So we would end up with:
Maritimes and Quebec: zero immigration.
BC, Alberta, Ontario: all the immigrants
The Charter affords people freedom of movement once they’re in Canada so even if Alberta only accept x number of people, those accepted by another province can move to Alberta. The Federal government should consult provinces and municipalities when making immigration decisions since these decisions affect housing, access to healthcare, education, etc so they can plan together.
If anyone thinks for a second that Conservative governments wouldn’t flood their provinces with cheap TFW labour to appease their corporate overlords, I have a bridge to sell you.
Doug Ford is salivating at the idea of propping up his private “college” lobbyists.
The recent batches of premiers have proven themselves completely incompetent and should be in charge of nothing.
Disagree? How do you think healthcare, housing and education are doing in your province?
If anything, the provinces should have responsibilities taken away given how bad most of them are handling the things they already control.
My feeling is the general population is reacting to the effects of the hyper immigration we had after the pandemic and are not focusing on where we sit with today’s policies and immigration level.
Canada has a less than replacement birth rate. We need to attract a sustainable immigration level or face an economic consequences. Many nations are facing that scenario now and in the coming generation. Our current policies suggest the feds are returning to historical levels of immigration to maintain roughly 1% population growth. That seems prudent to me.
WRT the poll. I’m not sure what sort of „control“ they are thinking of but provinces already have the Provincial Nominee Program which is designed to allow provinces to have control over the types of immigrants they would like to attract.
If the notion is that provinces have FULL control over who resides in a province then I think that is a recipe for chaos IMO. Canadians have freedom of movement within the country. Do we want to place restrictions on which cities and provinces Canadians can live like China? And, how would you enforce it? An ICE type organization? Through employment / benefits regulation?
Canadians should have greater control over immigration.
Politicians flooding in immigrants as cheap labour for their businesses and business friends is killing us – morally and financially.
It’s the post again. A rag rage baiting paper who prays on emotions. Literal US propaganda.
Probably simply a reflection on how badly the Federal government did managing that file within the last decade, rather than actually thinking that control belongs at the provincial level.
Anyone listening to this MAGA newspaper should just stop now. We don’t need ultra right wing bias in our newspapers. Everyone should write a letter to the Editor and let them know that their agenda is not wanted in these parts.
Yeah no I don’t want to give any more power to Doug Ford
Danielle Smith is the worst premier in Canadian history who cares what she thinks. She should have less power to wreck Alberta not more.
The provinces do effectively already have (or had) control over immigration. It was the provinces who told the feds that more TFWs, more students, more immigration overall was what they wanted and could handle. The federal government at no point ever forced immigration on provinces.
No, they need to have even less of a role with all the Provincial Nominee Program fraud.
„Smith, always looking to pretend to be with the people, finally realized her massive immigration drive is not the way to go“
Changed that headline based on facts.
Got to stop making useless people look like leaders
Does it matter? For the longest time, the feds and the premiers were on the same side. They **all** wanted mass-immigration. The provinces were demanding it, while the feds gleefully allowed them as many people as they wanted to bring in.
People like Smith are only turning the taps off now that it’s popular. I trust the premiers just as much as I trust Carney to solve the issue.
No they fucking dont 🙄
What I don’t get is you need two pieces to open a bank account, get a cell phone..
You need to go through extensive testing to get a driver’s license.
On the other hand
-You can vote without a photo id or by showing a utility bill!.
– You can claim refugee status on an app and get a work permit and stay indefinitely.
– If you commit a crime, Judges will reduce your sentence so as not to jeopardize your immigration status (so much for justice being blind)
I mean common!
Are they saying Québec was right? Even if the federal control access to the country, the provinces integrates the immigration into the local society. They know better than Ottawa the local needs so yes, the provinces should have a bigger say in immigration.
You mean, Ontario doesn’t have to let in every immigrant because Quebec said „No“ and the government – eager to cater to the Bloq and the feelings of francophones – complies?
If Healthcare, Education, and Public Services are the jurisdiction of provincial and municipal governments, there should be larger autonomy for how said services are governed.
We only let so many in because the colleges lobbied the provinces for more international students. Because the provinces have jurisdiction on schools. The the provinces all lobbied the federal government, because they have jurisdiction on immigration and the borders.
Then the feds did the increase the provinces asked for, and then the provinces complained they didn’t want it anymore.
The provinces like to play coy and dumb, but they already have the type of control they want, its just through lobbying. And as a way to tell the electorate that they are looking after them, even if they aren’t gaining any new powers or responsibilities.
The reason Smith is doing this is that she doesn’t want her separatist base to be diluted by immigrants who will put Canada above Alberta.
28% of Albertans either support or lean towards separation, but that’s only 1.1 M Canadians trying to destroy a country of 41.5 M.
I don’t agree with this.
Highly disagree
Strong disagree, provinces like manitoba and pei have proven way too incompetent to be let in charge of their own immigration system so they should lose the autonomy to self regulate that without safe guards in place and watchdogs monitoring it
I think this is more of a vote of non-confidence in the federal government’s handling of the program. However, I don’t think Canadians realize the provinces would in many ways be even worse based on recent behaviour. Considering the admission choices of any province would potentially have impacts on other provinces via free movement in the country this should remain a federal affair and under no circumstances should be delegated to the provinces. This is more indicative that Canadians think immigration decisions are not being made with Canadian interests in mind.
This is not necessarily a good thing. The result of one province making bad decisions doesn’t get confined to that province. Immigration affects us all, not just the province.
What we need is a competent, far-sighted policy at the central level.
And we should just lower it to mitigate the risks. We know a lot more about risk management in academia than what we apply in real life.
She just wants approval for her own ICE
Canadian voters should
Could we also not allow Alberta drivers to leave their province.