Author: Marzio Pelù

Less immigration and few children due to the crisis: and the population growth slows

TORONTO – Canada’s population growth slowed slightly in the final quarter of the year, the first time since 2020, when the number of people entering the country nearly stopped, as Canada closed its borders due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The slowdown in growth, reported on Wednesday by Statistics Canada, is due to the recent crackdown on immigration by the federal government (which has progressively reduced the number of international students and the number of temporary foreign workers due to the “housing crisis”) and, at the same time, to the further decline in births. Two factors which, when combined, become “explosive” (in a negative sense), given that international migration almost entirely represents the increase in the Canadian population.

CORRIERE CANADESE / Finanziamenti e “nominations”: partiti-colabrodo e fuori controllo

TORONTO – Scelta dei candidati e finanziamenti ai partiti: sono le due “porte” che consentono agli Stati stranieri ostili di “entrare” in Canada per interferire, o quantomeno provarci, nelle elezioni e, conseguentemente, nella politica del Paese. È quanto, in estream sintesi, ha riferito il capo di Elections Canada, Stéphane Perrault (Chief Electoral Officer of Canada), alla Foreign Interference Commission… Read More in Corriere Canadese >>> 

 

Foreign interference: Canadian parties system leaks like a sieve

TORONTO – Choice of candidates and party financing: these are the two “doors” that allow hostile foreign states to “enter” Canada to interfere, or at least try, in the elections and, consequently, in the country’s politics. This is what, in a nutshell, the head of Elections Canada, Stéphane Perrault (Chief Electoral Officer of Canada), reported to the Foreign Interference Commission.