Oh for the love of-

We all pay the price when fake students, fake schools, and fake conservatives continue to misfuel Canada's sputtering 'economic engine.'

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It’s a hot one in July.

A non-trivial amount of adults swelter in the high noon sun, and wonder why their taxes haven’t changed the weather.

A prime minister hangs ten in Tofino and wonders if he too will be taken out back behind the barn like a certain non-compos-mentis figurehead south of the border.

A woman, likely without a family doctor, is told she has advanced cancer, but it will be months before she can have surgery — if she’s even still around. “Have you thought about government-induced oblivion? It’s all the rage in place of timely care.”

A girl in Brampton is propositioned to be a sex slave for free rent, in a house fit for a small family that presently houses 735 fake students.

A radical Islamicist on a dodgy foreign passport — the CANADIAN passport — travels to Israel to kill Jewish civilians.

A trucker in Edmonton watches in disdain as a convoy of Khalistani separatists — each a likely supporter of the Air India bombing — pass him on the highway.

The seven fastest-growing cities in North America — all Canadian — swell like rotten watermelons.

A more passive-aggressive than kind populace is rewarded for their obsequiousness with higher rents, even longer wait times, even lower wages, and an even greater sense that the Canada they once knew is fading away.

And that is all, in large part — and despite faulty promises to the contrary from a federal government that’s big on finally being dragged to issuing a statement, and then doing dick all to follow up — because the numbers won’t stop going up; way, way up.

“Even as the federal Liberal government is pledging to cap the number of international study permits, its own data show Canada is approving permits at a pace faster than last year, which saw a record number of approvals.” (Passifiume, National Post)

Even the major banks have noticed; this time, the Royal Bank of Canada:

“Surging population growth has prevented outright declines in Canadian gross domestic product, but per person output is falling, and the unemployment rate is rising like it usually only would be during a recession . . .

Decades-high population growth has masked this recession-like economic backdrop. Canada has added 2.1 million additional consumers since mid-2022.

Real per person output has declined in six of the past seven consecutive quarters and unemployment has risen at the same time.”

The premier of Ontario has noticed too. At least publicly, he seems to believe it’s just swell. (Watch at link.)

It ain’t.

We’ve spoken about mass immigration a few times around these parts (likely a few too many, if we’re being honest):

But this latest volley of doom statistics, and the apparent Conesto-Go F*ck Yourself from decision-makers, feels explicitly engineered to be demoralizing.

Just when Canadians were told to at least expect half-measures as a country building an average of 100k homes annually is made to welcome north of 1.3 million annually, along came the Passifiume report in the National Post and a cheap and cheerful Premier Ford to further harden hearts, and underscore that your deep-seated un-comfortability is not the priority here.

The priority continues to be maximum wage suppression, using growth for growth’s sake to mask a government recession, and keeping corporate fraudsters happy as they dine out on (predominantly) low-skill, young Punjabi males living in squalor — some of whom are then sharing some of their baser tendencies with communities at large.

For all of Ford’s failure to spin the positives of Ontario’s growth being faster than Texas and Florida’s (an insane thing to be proud of when Ontario’s economy is less productive than Mississippi and Alabama’s), talk to your average Ontarian and ask them if they’re benefiting from the upper limits of the province’s share of 1.3 MILLION: a now-staggering 800,000.

They’ll respond by telling you they’re thinking of moving; that they no longer recognize their town; that their kid can’t find a summer job because it’s been taken by fake students or fellow LMIA fraudsters and the corporations who so enjoy dining out on exploitable labour; that they’re in year seven of waiting for a family doctor.

It’s why I moved. (And B.C. is barely any better. If anything, they’re similarly screwed. One just comes with a nicer view.)

Soon, Alberta will be punished for its successes, as Calgary and Edmonton have but a year before services and housing become untenable under present migration patterns, and many flee a Greater Toronto Area strangled by millions post-Covid.

Despite reluctant and lukewarm promises to the contrary, the Liberals, along with liberal premiers in all but name, couldn’t even be bothered to lift a finger for you this summer.

That immigration locomotive keeps on chugging ahead, regardless of the tent encampments and post-national failings your conductors have witnessed streaming by their windows.

As with recessions poorly hidden by reprehensible caste systems managed by arguable traitors in Ottawa and Toronto, all lies big and small tend to be revealed when the numbers can’t.

We all pay the price when fake students, fake schools, and even fake conservatives continue to misfuel Canada’s sputtering ‘economic engine.’

So be unacceptable. Earn a dressing down that starts with “folks.”

Want your kid to ever afford a home, timely care for the mister or missus, or a passport that means something?

We all have to solve for the worst case Ontario.

Alexander Brown is a writer, comms director, and part-time politico. To support his work on the occasion of his 100th column here on Substack, subscribe today.