Federal Government & Politics II

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by theman23

Obviously fraud existed before, but the story is that the Trudeau government opened the floodgates of TFWs and overwhelmed ESD's ability to scrutinize these LMIA applications. I think LMIA approvals have been outpacing new job creation for several quarters now. Hence the rampant increase in fraud. Not surprising when a program basically quadruples in size overnight.

The Star: Government officers told to skip fraud prevention steps when vetting temporary foreign worker applications, Star investigation finds

Exactly, juice the number and the number of fraudsters will increase.

[acottawa]

Originally Posted by Truenorth00

"Average" is doing a lot work here. If Elon Musk walks into a bar, the average patron in there is a billionaire. An exaggerated example to make the point. But the median is probably lower than the mean here which is heavily driven up by the top 20% of households having much higher fossil fuel (not just electricity) consumption.

Yes, that is how averages work. I could not find breakdowns by income quintiles, if you know where they are then feel free to share.

[Acajack]

Originally Posted by 1overcosc

If we get there, it wouldn't be hard to convince Quebec to accept a language territoriality model in place of official bilingualism - heck they'd probably prefer it even now. The main political obstacles are the Franco-Ontarians and Anglo-Quebecers who would scream blood murder about it.

Language territoriality is exactly what Quebec has wanted since the 1960s including many of its PLQ Liberal governments. Stuff like Bill 101 is language territoriality even if only partly effective due to federal stuff that constantly counters its impacts.

the feds under PET proposed coast to coast official bilingualism instead and that’s what we now have even if largely ineffective in preventing the decline of French - though perhaps it slowed it down for a while. And of course official bilingualism across Canada is also unsatisfying for both francophones and anglophones, but for different reasons.

As for the reference to Anglo-Quebecers and Franco-Ontarians you are right that both oppose language territoriality but back in the day only Anglo-Quebecers had power and influence. Franco-Ontarians had none. Today the latter do have a bit more agency.