Harsh128

Die hard jays fan

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I see the @TorontoStar is running its daily immigration sob story.

Must be a day ending in "y."

"This poor person came to Canada temporarily (or illegally) and wants to stay forever, but can't."

In my five years as immigration minister, I observed that stories like this are part of the playbook of certain immigration consultants and lawyers.

It's their Hail Mary pass.

When their client runs of out legal recourses to convert their inadmissibility or temporary residency into permanent residency, they call their favourite bleeding heart reporter at the Star or the CBC, and voila: a completely one sided "human interest" story.

The tactic is guaranteed to get the attention of the Minister's office, elevating it from the millions of cases that IRCC has to deal with.

Oddly enough, the foreign national / illegal migrant almost never signs a Privacy Act waiver allowing the government to share all the facts of the case with the media.

But for the Star and CBC, that's never a problem. The sob story is always more compelling when it's completely one sided.

We can all feel empathy for people who would like to stay in Canada forever, but who don't qualify. But a well managed immigration system must be based on the rule of law, not empathy.

The gullible journalists never report the basic fact that EVERYONE admitted to Canada on a Temporary Resident Visa (TRV,) e.g. foreign students and TFWs, declare in their application that they will respect the terms of the visa, and leave at the end of their authorized stay.

In fact, they must submit evidence of "establishment factors" in their application to persuade a Canadian visa officer that, on a balance of probabilities, they will return home at the end of their temporary stay. They then reconfirm their intention to stay *temporarily* when they arrive at a port of entry.

That doesn't bar them for applying for permanent residency in the future. But it is not a promise or guarantee of PR, regardless of what their dodgy immigration consultant told them back home.

The catastrophic mismanagement of the immigration system over the past decade has created huge negative consequences, including undermining Canada's historic pro-immigration consensus.

None of that will be reversed if we let stories like this distort a fair, rules-based immigration system into a one based on selectively applied empathy.

[#1 fan of bad team @AU5T0N]

how do americans know brampton lore

[Harsh128 @harsh12eight]

@munlaba How is the door on the left open for you in the room where you insert the key for the boss fight?

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@latheredlippsy @BlueJaysExpress

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@pitchprofiler He always had elite stuff

[VOT6 @JaysViews]

16-14 (.533) over their last 30 games with only two series losses in their last nine.

Holding their own and keeping the ship afloat despite all the injuries.

Roof open at Rogers Centre next week?

Don’t let the boys get hot.

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stg im gonna delete all my cryo keys. what a worthless map

[kruzer @kruzer]

I love Marathon but I swear this clip includes everything wrong with the sandbox at the moment 😭

- Gold Ares Mod 1 Shotting Gold/Purple
- Bubble Spam
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- Self Res
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@BlueJays @TD_Canada Spring training ass lineup on April 12. Holy injuries

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@NaeNaeTakes Top 3 hitter in AL in 2025
All star catcher
Playoff breakout star
Playoff breakout star
KBO MVP
CY Young winner
Workhorse SP
40 hr hitter
High leverage RP

Unreal injury luck

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Gausman👀👀

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@DMFox705 He must not have bounced back from TJ very well

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@Levbaseball C'mon bro be better, first crying about Leo Jimenez when we got a better version of him in Kasevich right there and second that's Jonathan Clase in the picture 🤦

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Didn't buy MLB The Show for the first time since like 2008 and seems like I made the right choice

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@0npam Lol the other rooks were giving you mad respect

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@TraeRiesgraf hes one of the best on the planet at one out of five baseball tools ill give him that much

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Arraez carrying the flag for Venezuela they really idolize that guy huh

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@saaaaaaaaaint I have the same mod, been too afraid to try it out yet lol

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Anyone know if this mod is any good???