Fourth estate? Or fifth column?
The media and Canada's mass immigration profiteers lie, but the data does not. Blanket amnesty for millions of Covid-era temporary workers would cement the worst policy decision in Canada's history.
Is Canada’s “fourth estate” still acting as a watchdog for the public interest, or has it transitioned into a “fifth column,” actively sabotaging the country’s stability? It’s a provocative question, but looking at the headlines from this past week, it’s one that many are surely asking themselves.
While the country continues to buckle under historic housing crises (soon to get much, much worse), and a domestic order that is crumbling in real-time (borne out, primarily, by the unvetted population moonshot of 2021-2024), our flagship publications have spent the last weeks churning out what can only be described as pro-amnesty propaganda for the millions on expired and expiring visas that, lest we forget, still say “temporary.”
The Star recently ran a piece urging the Carney majority to open a new permanent residency path for every single temporary worker currently in the country. Not to be outdone, Macleans published a sprawling, mawkish, longform act of navel-gazing, framing the struggle of temporary residents as a moral crisis of “almost Canadians.”
Both, of course, are deeply off the mark.
We are currently witnessing a population of temporary workers that has ballooned beyond any reasonable capacity, encouraged by a cheap, exploitable-labour ideology, a fake student and school ethos, that treats the nation like an airport hotel, rather than a distinct society. At a time when common sense dictates that those on expiring permits should return home to alleviate the generational strain on our already-failing infrastructure, the legacy media, at the behest of bad actors such as the ‘Migrant Workers Alliance for Change,’ now demands we formalize that cardinal sin.
This hastily assembled industrial complex lies, but the data does not. Youth unemployment in Canada is surging, hitting levels that threaten to sideline an entire generation of young men and women. Inside everyone point of data is a Canadian kid stuck on the launch pad. I speak with dozens when I’m on the event circuit, it’s no word of a lie, they’re sending hundreds of resumes, and getting absolutely nowhere.
And yet — and quite disgracefully — to read the legacy press, or to witness a Lena Diab fugue state in the House of Commons, you would think the primary victim of this crisis isn’t a Canadian couple disincentivized from starting a family because they’re forced to live in a 500 sq. ft. rental for $2700/month, but the temporary worker whose path to citizenship was never guaranteed in the first place.
Make no mistake, this is also a political betrayal that crosses party lines. Nowhere is that more evident than in the recent comments by Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford, a believe-in-nothing people pleaser, who often claims to be “protecting Ontario,” recently bowed to a mob, claiming he wished he could “snap his fingers” and make sure the millions of low-wage labourers protesting to stay in Canada could stay indefinitely if he had the power.
Youth unemployment in Ontario is now permanently fixed between 15-20%. In cities like Toronto, it reaches well into the 20s. In just the past few years, recent Sean Fraser, Marc Miller, and Lena Diab invitees have set up large-scale extortion networks, bringing the worst of the global village, and blacked out Dodge Challengers with AK-47 decals, to once-safe family suburbs, where proud, qualified, and integrity-driven immigrants would put down roots in a country they felt was on the right track.
It was another in a series of mask-off moments for Premier Ford, who was nowhere during Covid damages to the economy, public square, and civil liberties; nowhere when the diploma mill crisis kicked off; nowhere when the Third World’s tow-truck wars or murder-truckers started hitting overpasses, innocent families, each other, and running illegal dump sites and contraband yards next to playgrounds in formerly-pastoral Caledon.
While Ontarians struggle to justify remaining in the sick man of North America, Ford is signalling to Canada’s wayward and deeply infiltrated corporate lobby that he is more than happy to play dumb about suppressing wages and keeping the population taps running at full tilt.
Like the federal Liberals he so often mirrors and prefers, Ford seems to believe that Canada’s sputtering economic engine doesn’t require a functioning border, nor a true gameplan for an exit strategy, a return to numbers we can support, and the productivity we must re-engineer.
To their limited credit as a voting bloc, Canadians and recent-immigrant Canadians feel very differently. There is a growing, barely withheld fury among the public against our poor excuse for elites, who have dismantled the orderly, merit-based system that once made Canada an international success story, and attractive to the world’s talented and upward-oriented.
Recent polling still shows a consensus that immigration levels have moved far beyond reasonable.
Self-respecting adults understand what the media and Doug Ford are incentivized not to: a country is more than a bazaar market, a waystation, a tide that beckons the world’s rudderless young men to wash up on its shores, turning it into Tortuga.
Canada is (was?) a community, a delicate ecosystem, with a finite number of doctors, homes, and jobs, with a story and a purpose in need of protecting.
When you continue to ignore those limits, we call that “managed decline.”
If you have yet to do so, start asking why our leaders are so eager to prioritize the interests of low-skill temporary residents over the future of Canadian youth, and over our needs for high skill, and high morals. Until then, millions of Canadians will continue to look at the news and their politicians and see the same thing: a class of people who have completely lost the plot, pulling the ladder up behind them while the rest of us wonder what ends first — their era, or the country.
Alexander Brown is the writer of Acceptable Views, Managing Editor of Without Diminishment, Director of the National Citizens Coalition, and a contributor to Project Ontario.
You can catch him on stage next week at Canada Strong and Free Ottawa.
A great essay Alex. Your last paragraph really sums it all up. As the mother of three young adult sons, hard working too, their future looks bleak…. Sick of this - people often ask me in Baja where I winter - what’s going on in Canada? Often they have no idea. Refreshingly at times some are very aware.
The lousy legacy of a starstruck stooge.