1:1 by Shaheryar Mian

Cross posted from cloudten.ca

Shaheryar Mian

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently posted the following on X regarding his government’s change in Canada’s student work permits and the temporary foreign worker program. I am sharing this blog entry to highlight that the Prime Minister’s actions do not represent policy. A scale back of poorly managed initiatives shows an utter lack of planning and vision, which has marred the Liberal government with one failure after another. The following satirical entry is written for the purpose of questioning the Prime Minister’s competence.

I have been talking about Trudeau’s reactionary form of leadership for quite some time. Trudeau’s latest post on X is a quintessential example of him creating a problem and then doing a poor job at trying to fix it. The truth below:

Trudeau: “we are granting 35% fewer international student permits this year.”

Truth: we should have never issued exorbitant amount of student permits to prevent things from getting out of control.

Trudeau: “and next year that number is going down by another 10%.”

Truth: I messed up big time because I didn’t have a vision for the future. I let my incompetent immigration minister open the flood gates without assessing whether we had infrastructure in place to support such a high number of student intake. In fact, I didn’t even have a federal requirement for universities to have housing in place, which is why students were left stranded and forced to live under 3rd world conditions. Now I’m scaling back because I don’t actually have any solution in place for a problem I created.

Trudeau: “Immigration is an advantage for our economy – but when bad actors abuse the system and take advantage of students, we crack down.”

Truth: We didn’t have a system in place to prevent crime and abuse. In fact, I instructed the immigration and citizenship office to refrain from checking for fraud. I also implemented a shortsighted policy of allowing visitors to apply for work permits and later realized that was a diabolical mistake, so now I’m ending it. I also allowed our Temporary Foreign Worker program to become a hot mess and created labor conditions which disadvantages Canadian workers. I failed to promote and take advantage of our immigration point system to attract a skilled workforce, and instead let immigration consultants create loopholes to let anyone obtain a permanent residency (PR) card. I’m the only Prime Minister in Canadian history to rein over such abuse of our system. I don’t want to resign because being PM is a fun job as it allows me to practice my acting career. 

Trudeau: “We’re reducing the number of low-wage temporary foreign workers and shortening the duration of their work terms.”

Truth: The Temporary Foreign Worker program by the Liberal government created a two-tiered workforce allowing businesses to exploit the system, underpay foreign workers, suppress their rights, and create a marginalized workforce at a time when unemployment for Canadian youth is staggeringly high. By showing Canadians that I’m scaling back all these programs, I may be able to shift public sentiment about my colossal failures

In Conclusion

Leaders have a plan and a vision for the future. Trudeau duped millions of Canadians in 2015, 2019, and in 2021 in believing that he had a plan for the future. In reality, he had no real vision or plan. The recent cutbacks in student visa permits and foreign work permits do not represent sound policymaking; rather, they are an example of ‘putting out a fire.’ The fact is that the Liberal government should have never allowed things to get so out of control and poorly mismanaged. Whatever your views on Justin Trudeau are, one thing is clear: He is an extremely poor manager.

Disclaimer:

This blog entry represents thoughts, analysis, and opinions of the author that may be biased.