Comment:

"New Brooms & Express Entry

The implied question posed by the attached article from Corriere Canadese could not be clearer…. Either Canada wants economic immigrants or it does not want economic immigrants.

Express Entry was invented by Jason Kenney. Kenney had no clue about economic immigration or anything else. Rather than deal with substantive issues, Kenney reacted with evidence free Potemkin Village voodoo to his tea leaf reading of populist sentiment.  This was his modus operandi in HR&SDC, Immigration, Multiculturalism and defence. As Chair of Management Committee, Kenney sealed the defeat of the Harper government. Administration by chaos justified by pathological lying is hardly a winning formula.

  

The issue now is whether the country can afford to be guided by Kenney’s delusions, if even for a few months.  

 

It’s still early in the game.  Let’s give the new broom an opportunity to show its stuff. 

But the initial signals are troubling:

 

• Immigration Minister McCullum’s mandate letter from the PMO is silent on economic immigration.

• The Immigration Minister appears to be focused solely on the Syrian refugee issue 

Liberals would be well advised to consider that thousands of Ontario employers and many more thousand tax paying Ontario resident families are becoming very angry that there is no room for their trades working cousins from Europe. Nobody minds the Syrians. But they do mind the double standard. It’s becoming ugly. I’ve never seen anything like it in Toronto.  

The GTA has loyalty to family and money, not to any political party. 

Liberals may wish to consider that going along with Kenney’s voodoo didn’t do Chris Alexander or Julian Fantino or any other member of the team much good."

Richard Boraks, January 22 2016