Je travaillais avec un immigrant marocain, un chic type arrivé par voie légale juste avant la COVID
Il trouvait amèrement injuste que ça rentre à la pelletée par Roxham alors qu’il avait mis des années et des efforts avant de pouvoir arriver ici
Not at all surprising.
In my five years as Immigration Minister, we consistently found that all of our challenging reforms* were supported by immigrants more than people born in Canada.
* Reforms like:
- Eliminating a backlog of 700,000 PR applications
- raising the bar for selection under the points grid, including for English / French language proficiency
- overhauling the asylum system that reduced new claims by 80%
- imposing visas on major source countries for asylum claims;
- imposing a waiting period before foreign sponsored spouses could obtain PR to crack down on marriage fraud
- raising the bar to obtain citizenship with much more robust language and knowledge tests based on our Discover Canada citizenship guide, and adding a year to the residency requirement;
- revoking citizenship from thousands of people who had obtained it fraudulently;
- stopping applications for the parents & grandparents sponsorship program;
- ending the live in caregiver program;
- ending the widely abused Investor Immigrant Program;
- overhauling the Temporary Foreign Worker Program that reduced intake of low skilled TFWs by 85%;
- removing federal health benefits from rejected asylum claimants;
- increasing resources for CBSA to increase & accelerate deportations, etc..
- reforming the Multiculturalism Program to focus on integration & civic literacy rather than divisive critical race theory;
Many of these reforms elicited the usual charges of racism from the left, and many were opposed by the business community as being too restrictive. But consistently we saw super majority support amongst new Canadians for these and other tough measures.
We have lost our mind
I love this country, but there is something that is so much more wrong than anything else that is wrong.
This week you will have heard two stories.
A 61 year old indigenous man (and that part is not irrelevant) convicted of raping and murdering a young woman and raping and beating a second woman, leaving her for dead, and rendering her quadriplegic, after serving his sentence, and still on parole (which he violated), was admitted to @mcgillu faculty of law, studying on campus amongst many young female students.
Separately, two young men broke into the wrong apartment and instead of killing whoever they were there to kill, they beat an 86 year old man nearly to death and burnt his face with a blow torch. His injuries were so severe that he could never recover and was able to have his life ended under our MAID protocol. The two attempted murderers were sentenced to 7 and 8 years in prison.
Have we lost our minds???
Qui de mieux pour représenter la nation québécoise dans ses relations avec les Premières Nations qui cohabitent sur le même territoire que le Gouvernement du Québec ?
Pourquoi déléguer au fédéral ?
Les Bruins ont un très bon début de saison.
Oui, c'est une bonne équipe. Oui... la fameuse culture.
Mais...
- % de réussite sur les tirs insoutenable;
- % d'arrêt combiné des 2 gardiens insoutenable.
DiPietro, 27 ans, avait 4 matchs NHL avant cette année.
Quand tu fais partie de la gang des vertueux, tu peux tout dire
« Pierre Trudeau pointed out »
😂😂🤦♂️🤦♂️
Exactly. When Quebec politicians ignore the Constitution, they are in Trump-imitation mode. And don't waste your time with debagting arguments that Quebec never signed the 1982 Constitution. As Pierre Trudeau pointed out at the time, it wasn't necessary for Quebec to sign that for it to be binding upon Quebec. In addition, Quebec governments avail themslves of the Constitution when they feel like it, such as use of the notwithstanding clause. Quebec is in. And that, and the rule of law, is what swearing an oath to the King, is about.
Traduction nulle à chier mais quelle opportunité perdue par la Russie, effectivement.
站在今天看，俄罗斯这波操作，属于手握着一把天胡的牌打得稀烂。
如果不出兵乌克兰，今天全球AI的牌桌上，除了中美，大概率真得坐着一个俄罗斯。
搞AI、跑大模型，底层逻辑就是“吃电、散热、堆机器”。这两年全世界的数据中心老板都在为电费和机房降温发愁。俄罗斯属于老天爷喂到饭：西伯利亚开窗就是纯天然顶级空调；境内水电、核电、天然气很便宜，当年挖矿的都选西伯利亚。
另外俄罗斯人的数学和算法也强，各大国际编程竞赛，Kaggle机器学习竞赛常被俄国人屠榜。全世界除了中美，俄罗斯也搞出了自己完整的互联网生态：搜东西有Yandex，社交有VK，还有Telegram。现在在美股被炒上天的算力黑马Nebius，核心班底就是原先Yandex那帮俄罗斯人。
如果疫情后俄罗斯出地皮、出冷气、出便宜电，再拉着中国这种基建狂魔帮忙拉高压电网、建厂房、铺光纤，欧美资本开服务器工厂。俄国人完全可以成为欧亚大陆最大的“超级算力工厂”，中美神仙打架，它在中间两头收过路费。
结果呢？普京一拍大腿：不行，我得去抢那几块地。
普京的脑子，彻底停留在了19世纪沙皇俄国那种“开疆拓土”的旧梦里。什么有没有出海口啊，有没有所谓的军事缓冲带啊，就算抢方法也多的是，这可这是21世纪啊！现在的世界霸权争夺，抢的是半导体供应链，抢的是先进算法，抢的是高精尖人才。你去顿巴斯抢了几片烂泥地、几座废弃钢铁厂，代价却是把整个国家的未来都押了上去。
枪声一响，一切全崩了。稍微有点本事的程序员、算法工程师，连夜跑路。Yandex核心技术团队，宁可巨亏，惨烈的断尾求生、割裂母国，也要跑到欧洲重组成Nebius。普京把最懂未来的人，全逼成了难民和海外创业者。
在人工智能技术爆发的黎明前夜，全世界都在疯狂狂飙算力、抢占新工业革命的门票；而俄罗斯的老大，却带着几十万人，在泥潭里打着一百年前的一战式堑壕战。
再说一遍，普京不行，国内崇拜普京的那帮人也不行
Richard Poulin : 'L'objectif, ce n'est pas d'inciter à la haine, se défend-il.'
