🇨🇦 42,000 in the family backlog and Ottawa still pretends the system is under control

A Montreal man has been waiting nearly six years for permanent residency while IRCC recites the same magic phrase: security screening pending, as reported. That is the real Canadian immigration model in 2026: throw the doors open, flood the pipeline, then act shocked when families end up in bureaucratic purgatory. Quebec alone had 42,000 people waiting in the family reunification stream as of May, with a processing cap around 10,000 a year. Brilliant planning from the managerial class.

And here is the contradiction they never want to admit: if security checks matter, mass intake makes them slower and sloppier. If family unity matters, endless quotas and federal-provincial turf games wreck it. Trudeau-era immigration policy managed the impossible by being both reckless and incompetent at once. Quebec sets caps, Ottawa hides behind procedure, and ordinary people become collateral in a system built for headlines, NGO contracts, and demographic engineering rather than any coherent national interest.

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