Canadian politics thread

[whitev70r]

Impressive !! Bye bye TFW.

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by whitev70r

So we are seeing some of Cons policies ... PP is calling for an end to Temporary Foreign Workers TFW. He thinks they are taking away McDonald's, Tim Horton's jobs from our Canadian youths. But TFW also work in agriculture, you CANNOT replace those with our NA teenagers or youths.

Not sure if our Gen Z or Alpha (or whatever they are called now) will do McDonald's, Popeye's, Church's, fast food, etc.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poi...pped-1.7623864

Let me give everyone more insight about the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

PP Boy has been going after this program for years.

I know this is a fact because I have worked in the TFW Program as a federal employee since 2009.

This dumb fuck PP Boy has no idea about how a big a shortage of skilled workers that Canada faces in both high wage, high skilled jobs AND low wage, low skilled applications.

First of all, the deputy Minister of the TFW Program has a Ministerial Instruction in place as of September 2024.

Anytime a Canadian employer submits a Labour Market Impact Assessment Application (LMIA) to hire a foreign worker temporarily to fill a job opening for a low wage application, the applications are refused for processing when the job itself is in a location where the employment rate is 6% or higher:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...s/refusal.html

Table: Unemployment rates by Census Metropolitan Area and period
Census metropolitan area Unemployment rate (%) for applications submitted from January 10, 2025, to April 3, 2025 Unemployment rate (%) for applications submitted from April 4, 2025, to July 10, 2025 Unemployment rate (%) for applications submitted from July 11, 2025, to October 9, 2025


St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 6 7.6 7.2
Halifax, Nova Scotia 4.6 4.8 6.2
Moncton, New Brunswick 5.4 5.4 6.4
Saint John, New Brunswick 6.1 7.7 7.4
Fredericton, New Brunswick N/A* 6.9 6.2
Saguenay, Quebec 3.2 4.1 4.3
Québec, Quebec 4.1 5.1 4.1
Sherbrooke, Quebec 4.1 5.2 4.8
Trois-Rivières, Quebec 5.2 5.6 5.2
Drummondville, Quebec N/A* 8 5.6
Montréal, Quebec 6.2 6.7 6.9
Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario/Quebec 5.4 5.3 6.4
Kingston, Ontario 5.7 7.2 7.2
Belleville - Quinte West, Ontario N/A* 5.6 7.1
Peterborough, Ontario 4.5 9.9 9.9
Oshawa, Ontario 7.5 8 9.2
Toronto, Ontario 7.9 8.6 8.9
Hamilton, Ontario 6.3 7.3 6.6
St. Catharines-Niagara, Ontario 6.2 7.7 6.4
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo, Ontario 7.3 8.5 6.9
Brantford, Ontario 4.2 7.2 6.8
Guelph, Ontario 6.2 6.2 5.9
London, Ontario 6.4 5.5 6.9
Windsor, Ontario 8.8 9.3 11
Barrie, Ontario 6 7.5 7.3
Greater Sudbury, Ontario 4.7 5.8 5.4
Thunder Bay, Ontario 4.9 4.8 5.1
Winnipeg, Manitoba 5.6 5.9 5.6
Regina, Saskatchewan 6.1 5.9 5.3
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 4.3 4.8 4.6
Lethbridge, Alberta 4.9 5.7 5.2
Calgary, Alberta 7.5 7.8 7.3
Red Deer, Alberta N/A* 8.4 5.6
Edmonton, Alberta 6.8 7.3 7.6
Kelowna, British Columbia 5.3 6.7 5
Kamloops, British Columbia N/A* 7.1 8.7
Chilliwack, British Columbia N/A* 5.9 6.3
Abbotsford-Mission, British Columbia 5.4 6.2 6.1
Vancouver, British Columbia 5.9 6.6 6.3
Victoria, British Columbia 3.1 3.4 4.1
Nanaimo, British Columbia N/A* 6 7.3


Take a look at the latest unemployment rates for all this cities of Canada. We also have statistical tools to determine what census metro area a job location belongs to determine the unemployment rate if the job is in a small town in any province.

I can tell you now that many low wage applications, applications with wage offers as defined on this public website: https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...dian-wage.html

numerous low wage applications are being refused to process (RTP) because of the 6% or higher unemployment rates across many cities and towns in Canada now.


The fact of the matter is, the Canadian government will not simply let any employer just hire a foreigner at a low wage positions such as Timmy Ho's as a food counter attendant, in greater Vancouver, major cities in Alberta, Ontario, and numerous cities in Canada now because the unemployment rate across the board is so high. As a result, employers are encouraged to hire local workers, Canadians, to fill job vacancies for low wage positions.

There is a very slim chance of a foreign worker being able to work in a low wage position in fast food, janitor, light duty cleaner, hotel room attendant etc. as a low wage application

Furthermore, employers are strongly encouraged to hire Canadians for positions in the following industries because the TFW Program has a 20 percent CAP on the hiring of foreign workers. If an officer determines that the employer's hiring of foreign workers in an industry, such as construction, for a drywall installer, a roofer job for example, guess what that employer's application is refused for processing. The application will not even be processed:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...s/refusal.html

Low-wage positions above the 20% cap
For the sectors, subsectors and occupations below, LMIA applications won’t be processed if the proportion of low-wage positions is above the 20% of the total workforce at a given work location:

NAICS 23 – Positions in construction
NAICS 311 – Positions in food manufacturing
NAICS 622 – Positions in hospitals
NAICS 623 – Positions in nursing and residential care facilities
specific in-home caregiver positions under:
NOC 31301 – Registered nurse or registered psychiatric nurse
NOC 32101 – Licensed practical nurse
NOC 44100 – Home childcare providers
NOC 44101 – Attendant for persons with disabilities, home support worker, live-in caregiver, personal care attendant
ESDC and IRCC are evaluating the impact of the inclusion in future measures

For PP Boy to say that Canadians are being barred from employment because employers are hiring foreign workers instead as their staff, is simply not true.

The truth of the matter is that low wage applications from employers are being refused across many regions in Canada because unemployment rates are 6% or higher in many cities and towns now.


People think that employers are only hiring foreign workers for low wage positions in Canada? Think again.

We have a big shortage of Canadian workers in nursing, I.T. workers (software engineers, computer programmers for example), and other high skilled, high wage applications.

Our education system in Canada doesn't produce enough Canadian workers to fill job openings in I.T., nursing, etc.

There are also high wage, high skilled positions in the B.C. Film industry which cannot be filled entirely by Canadian workers.

You need a camera operator, a model, a director, actor, producer for a TV show or movie? Well, the foreign film studio or TV production company wants to hire an American or European for the position. They don't want to hire a Canadian to be their director, actor, or film/TV crew.

A multi billion dollar film and TV industry in B.C. depends on foreign workers to complete work for companies. Although we do have talented film crews in B.C. a foreign employer always has the right to hire foreigners for their actor, camera operator, director positions, etc.

We don't have qualified Canadians to be models for fashion catalogue photo shoots let alone actors for film, TV, and commercials.

[EvoFire]

Holy shit it's facts. So refreshing. Though I question the bit about IT workers. The market is so damn bad right now.

A real question though, if say an employer sets the wage artificially low for a specific job, and obviously they wouldn't be able to fill that position with some one local (say senior software developer and they are trying to hire at 80k) can they say there's no local talent and go through TFW?

[noclue]

mmmm I heard of countless sushi chefs/waitresses/hotel maids get LMIA as "restaurant/hotel managers" after they bribe the owner so...

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by EvoFire

Holy shit it's facts. So refreshing. Though I question the bit about IT workers. The market is so damn bad right now.

A real question though, if say an employer sets the wage artificially low for a specific job, and obviously they wouldn't be able to fill that position with some one local (say senior software developer and they are trying to hire at 80k) can they say there's no local talent and go through TFW?

Great question. The answer is NO.

When Program Officers assess these LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment) applications for I.T. positions such as a senior software developer, one of the assessment factors of an application will obviously be the wage offer.

Employers of a senior software developer must pay the foreign worker an hourly wage which is at or above the prevailing wage rate for the position at a job location. Prevailing wage rate for your example of a senior software developer is based on government labour market data.

The employer cannot just offer a lowball wage offer of say $20/hour in order to avoid any interest from Canadians to apply for a position of senior software developer.


I can also tell you that a high wage application must also also include a wage offer which is above the provincial median depending on the job location:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...ge.html#table1

If it was a low wage application for a senior software developer to work in Vancouver at 20 bucks per hour, that application would be refused to process because A) unemployment rate is 6.3% and B) even if our unemployment rate is below 6% the application would be refused anyways. Why?

An officer would provide rationale that the wage offer of $20/hour for a senior software developer is way below the prevailing wage for that job in a job location such as Vancouver.

[EvoFire]

^ That's a huge rabbit hole to dig through for me lol. How is fair market wage determined though?

In terms of software development, the market has dropped significantly in the last 3 years, we are looking a drop of about 20% at the median from peak till today, though it's already recovered some.

A senior developer's range can go as long as 100-160 depending on how they grade the position internally and whether if they go above senior in grading (principal, staff, more artificial levels) If they price the role at the absolute bottom (100k) it's still technically within range.

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by noclue

mmmm I heard of countless sushi chefs/waitresses/hotel maids get LMIA as "restaurant/hotel managers" after they bribe the owner so...

Integrity Services Branch of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program have investigators who do regular, announced and unannounced inspections of workplaces and reviews of employer and employee records.

They make sure that employers are not breaking the rules of the program. Foreign workers who give bribes to owners are risking deportation as Immigration can easily revoke their work permits.

Foreign workers bribing Canadian owners to get a job? Go ahead haha. Integrity Services investigators work closely with Immigration officers in their investigations.

Canada's version of ICE. Those TFWs would be sent on the next flight out of Canada if they pulled that shit with bribes to get a job in our country.

There is strict enforcement of TFW Program rules through the Integrity Service Branch of investigators who work in this Program.

Employer compliance as part of the TFW Program:

https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-...ompliance.html

-from the site above:

Consequences of non-compliance

If we find you non-compliant for a violation, you could face:

a warning
penalties up to $100,000 per violation, to a maximum of $1 million per year
a permanent ban from the TFWP and IMP for the most serious violations
publication of your business name and address on IRCC’s Employers who have been found non-compliant page with details of the violations and consequences (business names aren’t published when the sanction is a warning)
suspension or revocation of previously issued LMIAs

IRCC is the Immigration department.

Prime example of a Canadian employer facing a huge fine and a permanent ban from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...kers-1.7423944

A winery in B.C.'s Okanagan has been permanently banned from hiring temporary foreign workers and fined $118,000, according to the federal government.

According to a notification on the government's website, Toor Vineyards did not provide a federal inspector with the documents they asked for and did not "put in enough effort" to ensure the workplace was free of physical, sexual, psychological or financial abuse.

The notification also says the pay or working conditions did not match what was listed on an employment offer or a job was not the same as what was offered.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...state%20Winery.

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by EvoFire

^ That's a huge rabbit hole to dig through for me lol. How is fair market wage determined though?

In terms of software development, the market has dropped significantly in the last 3 years, we are looking a drop of about 20% at the median from peak till today, though it's already recovered some.

A senior developer's range can go as long as 100-160 depending on how they grade the position internally and whether if they go above senior in grading (principal, staff, more artificial levels) If they price the role at the absolute bottom (100k) it's still technically within range.

Easy. There are public websites from our federal government to provide data on prevailing wages for any job in Canada.

National Job Bank:

https://www.jobbank.gc.ca/trend-analysis/search-wages

Evo, any LMIA application through the TFW Program would have officers who assess the wage offer by looking at the hourly wage rate. You are talking about the annual salary. That's the wrong metric to use when the wage offer is assessed on an application.

The program requirements include assessing the wage factor of applications based on hourly wage. One of many factors that a Program Officer reviews as part of a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) application assessment.

Oh, just to give you and anyone on this thread some context, I am not a Program Officer of the TFW Program haha. I have a different job title in this federal government program.

[EvoFire]

I'm probably being obtuse about it and there probably is more nuances, but an annual wage to me is just hourly wage x2. So $30/h translates to roughly $60k/y.

I apologize if I keep pressing. I've worked with a few people who were sponsored to come to Canada, and am very curious about the process. A lot of job applications I've done recently all say they won't be sponsoring people who need it, I'm guessing like you said it's not easy to get approved and they don't want to waste the resources.

I used to get a lot of unsolicited emails when working at a smaller company from foreigners who would like to work for us and get a visa.

[sonick]

Officially based on Employee Standards Act, to convert hourly rate to annual salary or vice versa is 2080. Meaning in a standard work year there is 2080 hours.

Hourly x 2080 = Annual Salary
Annual Salary / 2080 = Hourly Rate

[spoon.ek9]

That's assuming you're being paid 40 hours per week too though. Lots of jobs these days only pay you 7.5 hours per day.

7.5 x 5 = 37.5

37.5 x 52 = 1950

This is actually something our union tried to fight against and partially won so long as we were able to prove that our jobs could not reasonably be done in 7.5 hours vs 8.0 hours.

[Badhobz]

^yeah but you guys in healthcare deserve all the money in the world. Not so much for lame ass family doctors, but nursing, pharmacy, or any front line staff that has to interact with the general trash public should get at least 200k. To work in that environment is utterly ridiculous unless you are getting paid big bucks. You guys truly have huge hearts and I applaud you.

If I did your job for an hour I’d murder the patient and then everyone else in the ward.

[SSM_DC5]

He's a drug dealer. He could probably make 200k easily if he distributed to the right people

But he probably grinds to get his 200k+ from all the OT he picks up.

[68style]

Thanks for the posts pasta, I know full well coming from 20 years of the fed system in 2 different departments how much bullshit people spout and how little they understand about how everything works and think it’s all so simple.

I see PP is all recharged and invigorated after getting his seat back, I have seen like 4 articles just today of him bitching from every angle possible about everything while offering no solutions (as usual). “Everyone is doing everything wrong but I wouldn’t!”

Carney is laying off people from my own sector so personally he’s not the good choice but he’s better than that moron Milhouse… and on the bright side in my old team of 7 people 1 person is getting the axe and she has been completely fucking useless for like 10 years (albeit at the lowest salary level on the team, but I digress) so maybe there’s merit to what he’s doing after all.

[spoon.ek9]

I wish I made that much money lol. Honestly, in emergency, 90% of the time I have positive experiences with patients. I guess that's because I mainly deal with seniors who are generally very grateful for the work that I do. It's the retail folk who you should really be thanking. Hobz, if you worked in retail pharmacy I'm sure there would be a trail of dead bodies and it would be justified.

side note: I'm almost done my 7 day 84 hour work week

[Badhobz]

Omg, see ! That’s utterly insane. You guys need more money, fuck you government!!! Why can’t these guy go on strike? If flying cunts can stop air travel in order to demand for more money, why can’t health care workers!?!? Yeah yeah emergency staff and all that, but still….. fair pay for fair work.

[68style]

EK Spoon parts aren’t cheap!

[spoon.ek9]

I haven't bought anything expensive for my cars in years. It's mainly about the next down payment

(and trips to Japan )

[Infiniti]

Originally Posted by pastarocket

Integrity Services Branch of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program have investigators who do regular, announced and unannounced inspections of workplaces and reviews of employer and employee records.

They make sure that employers are not breaking the rules of the program. Foreign workers who give bribes to owners are risking deportation as Immigration can easily revoke their work permits.

Foreign workers bribing Canadian owners to get a job? Go ahead haha. Integrity Services investigators work closely with Immigration officers in their investigations.

Canada's version of ICE. Those TFWs would be sent on the next flight out of Canada if they pulled that shit with bribes to get a job in our country.

There is strict enforcement of TFW Program rules through the Integrity Service Branch of investigators who work in this Program.

To be fair, is it fair to assume that much like the CBSA inland enforcement branch (responsible for detaining and removal individuals) that ISB simply does not have the requisite amount of resources to fully enforce these rules/regs? In other words, at any given time, there is likely a not insignificant percentage of business owners operating outside of the law that IRCC investigators are simply unable to identify because of existing workload?

Isn't the bigger issue to do with the international students supposedly "studying" at Conestoga college yet somehow working full time at (name low skill/wage position)?

[mikemhg]

^I lay more in Infinti's way of thinking on this one, and that's proven here in BC.

Yes we have regulations, yes we have policy, but how does it get administered, the rubber hitting the road, so to speak.

We've seen that with policy in this province, doesn't mean it'll get enforced, money laundering, empty housing taxes, all are items that have been enforced at a dismal rate here, there simply isn't the staffing in places to administer the rules. I'm curious if that's another factor with the Feds in regards to the TFW and LMIA programs.

Heck we've all heard to the stories of LMIA positions being sold at a cost by employers to folks in India, and I haven't heard heavy enforcement on that, are all those stories simply false?

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by Infiniti

To be fair, is it fair to assume that much like the CBSA inland enforcement branch (responsible for detaining and removal individuals) that ISB simply does not have the requisite amount of resources to fully enforce these rules/regs? In other words, at any given time, there is likely a not insignificant percentage of business owners operating outside of the law that IRCC investigators are simply unable to identify because of existing workload?

Isn't the bigger issue to do with the international students supposedly "studying" at Conestoga college yet somehow working full time at (name low skill/wage position)?

I cannot comment about the Integrity Services Branch of the TFW Program because I do not work at that branch. -certainly possible that the federal government cannot have investigators inspect all employers who use the program to ensure compliance because of limited resources and inadequate funding.

The International Student thing about students working full time at a low wage job is more related to the study permits that Immigration issues to students. The B.C. Provincial government has some jurisdiction on education.

It's the feds who are putting a cap on international study permits:

https://vancouversun.com/news/wake-u...ffs-bc-schools

The downturn stems partly from Ottawa’s decision to cap international study permits. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has said it will issue 437,000 permits to foreign students in 2025, down from 650,000 in 2023.

The big question is "Why is the federal government putting a cap on international study permits since last year and in 2025?"

This article provides some answers to this question:

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-...al-student-cap

Private colleges and universities in B.C. will face greater scrutiny, must be more transparent with tuition fees and prove that new programs meet labour market demands as part of a provincial government crackdown announced Monday to rein in so-called “diploma mills” that collect high fees from international students while offering a poor education.

The new rules announced by Robinson Monday will prevent institutions from taking advantage of international students, some of whom arrive in B.C. to find the campus consists of a small office in a strip mall and most of the classes are online.

This is how I understand why we see fewer international study permits being issued from the federal government.

It's not really about the foreign students, "students" who apply for a study permit to go to a school in B.C. and actually end up exploiting the the Canadian immigration system to work full time in a low wage job in B.C. or any other province.

Our federal government wants to crack down on bad actors, unscrupulous private schools who are providing substandard education to international students in order to make money on foreign students who don't know that they are getting scammed with a poor level of education.

One way for the federal government, and B.C. government to try to get rid of these private schools is by issuing fewer study permits to each province.

A decrease of study permits from 650 000 in 2023 to 437,000 in 2025 is a whopping 33 percent decrease in permits.

Did you guys know that by law any educational institution in B.C. cannot run a budget deficit?

Therefore, you hear in the news that local colleges like Kwantlen and Langara having large staff layoffs of their faculty members, especially the term staff, and their administrative staff.

Colleges have been so dependent on revenue from international student tuition fees because of years of inadequate funding from the provincial government in B.C., and ultimately the federal government for schools.

I understand that there is a need to get rid of private schools that are just diploma mills who provide a poor level of education to International students.

The article that I posted above mentions one particular private school offering courses to their programs to their students all in an online format.

However, the provincial and federal government leaders need to somehow get their act together and find more government funding for colleges, and universities in all provinces.

More government funding for post-secondary education means that local colleges such as Kwantlen as Langara would not have to be so reliant on international student tuition fees for their survival.

Ultimately, it comes down to the need for more federal government funding. More money from the feds for schools in all provinces.

[pastarocket]

Originally Posted by mikemhg

^I lay more in Infinti's way of thinking on this one, and that's proven here in BC.

Yes we have regulations, yes we have policy, but how does it get administered, the rubber hitting the road, so to speak.

We've seen that with policy in this province, doesn't mean it'll get enforced, money laundering, empty housing taxes, all are items that have been enforced at a dismal rate here, there simply isn't the staffing in places to administer the rules. I'm curious if that's another factor with the Feds in regards to the TFW and LMIA programs.

Heck we've all heard to the stories of LMIA positions being sold at a cost by employers to folks in India, and I haven't heard heavy enforcement on that, are all those stories simply false?

Mike, you're right. These stories are true.

However, the stories about workers getting scammed by employers is much more complicated that people know.

I think that there is a lack of government enforcement on many levels, when it comes down to the appointed third parties who represent employers who look for foreign workers to fulfill labour shortages temporarily using the TFW program.

It's the third parties, the immigration consultants, who are in many ways corrupt and greedy.

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2019/1...loses-licence/

This motherfucker Kuldeep Bansal is a bad as they come when it comes to a third party representative for employers who use the TFW program.

There is a running joke in some parts of the TFW program that Bansal's consulting agency should have been called "Overcharge" Immigration instead of "Overseas Immigration" .

-from the article:

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — A Surrey immigration consultant, who is facing a class-action lawsuit launched by foreign workers, has lost his bid to have a suspension of his license overturned.

Kuldeep Bansal launched an appeal of an Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICRCC) decision, which suspended his licence in August.



In his appeal, Bansal argued the move was going to cause “irreparable” harm to his business reputation and income.

But the Federal Court is upholding the suspension, saying there was no proof his loss of income would amount to irreparable harm. The court also said due to “extensive media coverage regarding Mr. Bansal’s immigration activities which precluded the suspension,” harm to his reputation has likely already occurred.

Court documents say Bansal earned $234,680 in 2018.

The suspension was ordered because “there were reasonable grounds to believe that such action is necessary to protect the public from Mr. Bansal,” according to documents submitted in Federal Court.

There have been 40 complaints lodged against Bansal since 2012, which an affidavit from the disciplinary committee of the ICRCC claims amounts to professional misconduct.

“He actively recruited foreign workers abroad, charged them significant fees to obtain employment in Canada and promised that they would obtain permanent residency and could then bring their families to Canada. In many cases, they paid Bansal thousands of dollars for jobs only to discover upon their arrival in Canada that the promised jobs specified on their work permits were not available, leaving them without any source of income or access to social services and legally unable to work other jobs as they were tied to their work permit,” the affidavit continues.

Meantime, foreign workers are taking Bansal to court, alleging he charged them up to $8,500 to work at Mac’s Convenience stores when no such jobs existed

The lawsuit was filed four years ago and no trial date has been set.


The enforcement is from a private agency, an Immigration Consultant council, when it comes to third party representatives.

Unfortunately, there is no government agency which can regulate the work of immigration consultants like Mr. Bansal when it comes to licensing.

Mike, this is a great article about the unscrupulous business practices that Bansal used to take full advantage of foreigners who wanted to work in Canada:

https://thewalrus.ca/immigration-consultants/

“Guaranteed Jobs” That Don’t Exist: The Dark World of Immigration Consultants

In some ways, it was. Overseas Immigration had indeed been contracted by Mac’s to act as its foreign worker recruiting agent for Western Canada. Higuchi was, at the time, the British Columbia operations manager as well as its senior recruitment and training manager for the region, working out of its Surrey offices.

But the relationship between Overseas and Higuchi would turn out to be suspicious. According to court documents from the class action suit, Overseas and Mac’s participated in a “scheme” that involved charging “recruitment fees” to foreign workers for jobs in Canada that, in many cases, “did not exist.” The suit also notes that the lack of a formal agreement between Mac’s and Overseas makes it impossible to know if Higuchi or Mac’s, or both, were receiving “a portion of the Recruitment Fees or another payment from the Recruitment Agents in exchange for its role in the scheme.”

This is how Mr. Bansal spent money from foreigners.

The dude used money from foreigners to buy a Bentley, a Lamborghini Gallardo, a golf course, etc.

The breadth of Bansal’s operation in Dubai was breathtaking. At its height, he was raking in up to $5 million a year, according to a 2019 Globe and Mail investigation. Chaudhary, his former employee, forwarded me pictures from a 2014 Christmas party Bansal threw at his private box at Rogers Arena, home of the Vancouver Canucks. Bansal would regularly entertain business clients there, Chaudhary said. In 2015, Bansal purchased his first golf course and posted a picture of his Lamborghini and Bentley on Facebook, despite Overseas Immigration having been investigated by Service Alberta. In January 2022, while his licence was still under suspension, he purchased a commercial property in Surrey for $55 million. That year, he also purchased a second golf course.

[westopher]

Immigration consultants are the scum of the earth. I’ve dealt with them for cooks in the past and they are not only liars, but more often than not idiots who have next to zero understanding of the process.

[Harvey Specter]

immigration consultants traffic cheap labour. Zero morals.

[VRYALT3R3D]

Canadian economy bled 66,000 jobs in August as unemployment rate at its highest since 'pandemic days'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/can...days-1.7625918

Elbows up crowd on suicide watch