More billions

Canada's immigration system is a mess.  So is our "management" of asylum seekers.  Both are destroying the country's economy and culture.  This headline tells you all the proof you need about the latter:

And that number doesn't even include the extra $1.5 billion given provinces to deal with their own messes.  So that's $2.6 billion and we're absolutely nowhere on either file.  As I keep saying, countries have borders for a reason.  Why can't we enforce them?

The department of immigration used to be called, "Employment and Immigration".  Remember that?  Immigration was tied to employment needs.  What a concept!  But successive governments since the fifties have mucked it up with all sorts of other categories which have nothing to do with benefiting Canada -- you know, family unification, humanitarian grounds, blah blah blah....

Right now it is estimated that we have 500,000 illegal migrants in Canada, working and hiding in various sectors.  Legal immigration is also currently projected to be 500,000, so we have equal numbers in both categories.  That's dumb.

What are we doing at the borders?  The country currently budgets $224 per illegal per day.  Do the math, it's ridiculous.  Most are staying in federally-funded hotels -- some fully-booked for this purpose alone, like in Cornwall -- which means that ordinary Canadians can't enjoy them.  As I say, the whole thing is ridiculous. 

So far, Carney is doing zilch about the whole expensive shambles.  Is it just me, or does anyone else see how weak he is?  He has no presence, no gravitas and no leadership on any file.  Jim Balsillie says Carney's working with outdated economic models from the seventies, which bear no relation to how economies must be managed today.  I'm no economist, but that sounds about right.  By the way, Carney is no economist either, in case you thought he was; his PhD is in philosophy.

As I say, if you voted for the guy, hang your head. 

As an aside, why did he hang out and have a sleepover in his jammies with Doug Ford at the latter's cottage during the recent fed/prov meeting in Huntsville?  What an idiotic thing to do!  Talk about no judgement, that just undermines the whole process because obviously he and Dougie cooked up some side deals no one else was privy to.  As I have said, Dumb.