This Remembrance Day, I wanted to share something beautiful. A couple of years ago, while travelling through France, I visited the cathedral in Orléans. Its pillars were adorned with the arms of the old French duchies, among them the Arms of Canada and the Empire, in WW1.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
“According to government figures, 58 per cent of permanent residents minted this year were temporary residents already in Canada.
That will continue next year, and should account for most of the 380,000 quota.
But another 200,000 new permanent residents minted from temporary status will be over and above the official tally of permanent residents.
It adds up to 580,000 new permanent residents in 2027, not 380,000.
That’s a higher permanent immigration rate than in any year of the Trudeau government.
But wait, there’s more.
The Carney government did the same thing last year. It introduced two “time-limited” programs to give permanent residency to 148,000 temporary residents – and didn’t count them in the permanent resident quota.
According to government’s plans and projections, 66,000 of the 148,000 spots will be filled in 2026.
That leaves 82,000 in 2027.
Add it up, and the Carney government’s real permanent resident target in 2027 is not the budget’s 380,000. Nor is it 580,000. It’s 662,000.”
Only the People’s Party will put an end to this by means of a moratorium, a pause: ZERO new permanent residents.
“Adding together next year’s 380,000 permanent resident target, the 200,000 “time-limited measure,” and the approximately 82,000 remaining permanent residents from last year’s special initiatives means Canada is set to admit a whopping 662,000 permanent residents next year.”
THIS IS NOT “IMMIGRATION UNDER CONTROL.”
IT REMAINS MASS IMMIGRATION.
THE NEW FIGURE MUST BE ZERO NEW IMMIGRANTS
The Carney government just loosened the rules for low-wage temporary foreign workers. They call it “targeted reforms” to “respond to labour market needs.”
Let’s be honest: it’s a cheap-labour policy.
It lets employers keep suppressing Canadian wages instead of fixing the incentives for Canadians to work.
They doubled low-wage TFW permits to two years.
They added early childhood educators to “priority sectors” so they can be imported even in regions with unemployment over 6%.
With provincial permission, employers can now make low-wage TFWs up to 15% of their workforce—up from 10%.
They claim they’ve “taken back control of immigration” while admitting they can’t even track millions of expired or expiring temporary visas.
That is not control. That is gaslighting.
And the reality: Canada’s non-permanent resident population as a share of the total population is still higher than in 2023.
That means more pressure on housing, health care and social infrastructure.
The government must stop importing workers while Canadians struggle to find good jobs.
The People’s Party will abolish the temporary foreign worker program, impose a moratorium on immigration, and put Canadians first. No more cheap labour. No more gaslighting.