“People are at the breaking point. Our public servants are at the breaking point.”
Smith says Canada is a nation of immigrants and Alberta more so than anyone else but newcomers need to be able to get a good-paying job to support themselves. What does the Alberta premier want to see?
A made-in-Alberta immigration system with a “sustainable” level of immigration and much more.
“We want to have a similar program to Quebec. Quebec has an immigration program that allows them to choose on the basis of language and culture. […]
“Maybe you don’t get health care covered until you have been a taxpayer for a number of years.
“Maybe you don’t bring your kids over to be educated in our publicly-funded education system or use our taxpayer-supported child-care system until you have a certain number of years as a taxpayer. You have to pay into the system.”
Smith says those who want to become permanent residents would then know “the number of years they’ve got to work in order to be able to receive all the entitlements of those who have been taxpayers all their lives.”
Smith says being a citizen or being on the path to citizenship as a permanent resident has privileges.
“Until somebody becomes a permanent resident and citizen we’ll treat them like tourists,” she says.
Well, there is a country you could perhaps become a part of…
So new arrivals will need to be able to speak kanadian or ewekaneaze????
Charges of racism from the Eastern kingdom of Laurentia in 3…2…1…
It’s only racist if Can-a-Duh’s immigration policy is racist.
Finally a first step towards sanity.
I came to the conclusion that Canada was legislated into existence to delay the inevitable.
Inevitably becoming part of the USA
Once you accept that’s eventually what’s going to happen the noise goes away.
The Establishment – Mewling Quims and Nut-less Cowards – are destroying the nation.
They’re clearly bent on fiscal and societal suicide.
Their hearts are black and their minds are diseased.
You don’t reason with them anymore than you reason with Islamic Jihadists.
As I’ve said before, people underestimate the affect of social benefit programs on migration patterns. People who have no intention of working and contributing to the economy will move to where social benefits are the most generous. Reforming those programs will result in fewer freeloaders coming to your province and existing freeloaders will consider moving to other provinces. Call it the Ralph Klein stop the “bums and creeps” policy, extended to immigrants instead of just eastern Canadians.
L – “…people underestimating the effect of social programs on migration programs.”
The globalist takeover of the West know that very well. They can’t destroy the nation-state without it ! They overwhelm the provincial responsibilities for: education, health care, welfare and policing. Sheer numbers do that, but to overwhelm policing/security takes malevolence.
It requires not screening for criminal or terrorist ideology among immigrants, and not deporting those, who are involved in that within the 10 years it should take to be granted citizenship.
The question of culture acknowledges the fact; that politics is downstream from culture. Which implies there are cultures incompatible with the values inherent in a nation-state founded under the principles of British Common-Law. That implication is part of swearing allegiance to the monarch in a constitutional monarchy, but needs to be made explicit in the oath of citizenship. The reason for controlled borders is to be able to assert sovereignty and guard against importing agents of sedition from abroad. False swearing of an oath invalidates the oath.
The question of language for immigrants should garner increased support for Premier Smith from both teachers and parents! This as a significant part of the complexity problems overwhelming teachers is that many of the migrant children do not speak english!
Speaking english(or French) is supposed to be one of the qualifications(point system) for immigration. If one or both parents can speak english, teaching that to their children, before they arrive or before the children are school age should also be part of the points system.
Premier *Danielle Smith defending “government of the people, for the people and by the people.”
*(She is the type of leader that the C.P.C. would have as a leader, but it purged the Reformers from the party, to keep the “Red Tory” elite in control.)
Meanwhile, in Ontario…
https://www.reddit.com/r/TorontoRealEstate/s/gHYPrqHk4W
And guess where they are all going?!
Kudos Danielle Smith.
And regarding, “being a citizen has privileges”…
notice she did not say “being a Canadian citizen”
who, by threat of imprisonment by the Liberal Party of Canada,
are forced to pay for their privileges to be revoked and rewarded to invading barbarians.
The only remaining purpose for private sector/non government Canadian citizens
is to fund the so-called governments so-called services and so-called servants.
On the other hand;
… being an Alberta citizen does have its privileges
which will grow to an overwhelming outcry from all other provinces
to begin following the inevitable first flight from the Ottawa nest.
The growing up of Canadas provinces has finally begun.
May we may live see all Canadian citizens liberated,
from the Liberal Party of Canada.
L – The growing up of the citizenry, to shoulder their responsibilities, supports the growing up of the provinces to do the same. As for Ottawa, with two Peter Pan Prime Ministers in a row, with like minded followers in the Senate and the Supremes, all living in Neverland. They’ll never grow up, until…maybe, just maybe, the welfare payments from Alberta and Saskatchewan get turned off. By then, they and the other province have to
relearn how to paddle their own canoe.
Every year there’s a news article on how inconvenient it is to have to have a draw to see if your kids will be able to attend certain schools, and inevitably there are kids who are very new to Canada gaining access to the local schools while children of lifelong Canadians are sometimes bumped to a different school, with the accompanying bus ride… in the classrooms there are kids who speak all sorts of languages which the lifelong Canadian students don’t recognize.
I can’t explain this to someone who’s a lifelong Canadian. None of it makes sense.
Emergency room lineups look like nothing I’ve ever seen before in Canada, I don’t recognize any of these people as locals, so many of them appear to be “from away” as they say in the Atlantic provinces.
The federal gov’t allowed these folks into the country, and even while certain provinces were saying “we don’t have the infrastructure to deal with these folks” the federal gov’t marched on without a care in the world, no real response at all. Reminds me of the AB referendum on renegotiating the equalization plan, which passed in AB years ago at +60% and was given to the federal gov’t, which they never even responded to. Can you imagine 1000’s of kids arriving in your city and the province asked the federal gov’t, “all our schools are filled with the children of taxpayers, so which federal gov’t school will these kids be attending?” The federal gov’t made this problem, actually took a run at it and created this problem as it’s clearly not accidental.
I agree with what Premier Smith is saying in the above, it’s not like I’m totally anti newcomers or immigration to Canada, but seeing the past few years of what the federal gov’t has done, it should be stopped entirely until they’re well settled in. Not “adjusted downward”. I said stopped.
I said stopped.
I’m on a Nanos Research email list. Every so often I get a link to complete a survey. Last one had some questions about immigration & you could actually provide input beyond “choose your favorite answer”. I wrote that there should be a complete moratorium on _all_ forms of immigration for a minimum of 5 years.
I could hear the heads exploding as I hit the “Enter” key…
I was going to suggest a decade, but sure, I’d settle for 5 years as long as after that time period we weren’t having 800k each year to make up for the 5 or whatever years where there wasn’t any immigration. I’m including the idea of mass refugee immigration in that zero file as well. Just stop for a few years. The federal gov’t has failed to build adequate housing for any number of them, never mind the past few + millions of immigrants, and the average house price in Toronto has fallen by +$100k and still hasn’t made a dent in affordability yet. I can’t point to a single file the gov’t of Canada has succeeded with their stated objectives with yet they’re continuing to march forward and thinking they are a success. It’s pure idiocy.
Premier Smith here @1.45 in this video, floating the idea of a referendum to bolster their idea of stopping provincial programs for people who haven’t a viable means of supporting themselves… It’s certain to bring a kerfuffle to the feds, not that I care what their opinion is on anything at the moment.
https://x.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/2001700648274821505