Subhead:Cabinet approved four immigration orders on October 23 without an announcement, finalizing the Carney government’s asylum overhaul and a long-delayed system of fines for unlicensed immigration consultants.#   Federal cabinet approved four immigration regulations in a single sitting on Friday, October 23, putting the finishing touches on the Carney government’s asylum overhaul and finally switching on a system of fines for unlicensed immigration consultants that Parliament authorized seven years ago. None of the four orders has been announced by Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab, and Rebel News could find no news coverage of them. Orders in Council 2026-1005 through 2026-1008 were signed on the recommendation of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, with Public Safety co-signing the asylum regulations. The final texts are not yet published in the Canada Gazette, but the government pre-published all four as proposals, with its own cost and benefit analysis, and those documents show what cabinet has now made law. The centrepiece is the asylum system reform regulations, the rulebook for Bill C-12, the Strengthening Canada’s Immigration System and Borders Act, which received royal assent on March 26. The government’s own analysis lays out the scale of the problem: asylum claims went from about 64,000 in 2019 to 144,000 in 2023 and 173,000 in 2024, before falling to 115,000 in 2025. The Immigration and Refugee Board’s inventory of undecided claims went from roughly 70,000 at the end of 2022 to nearly 300,000 at the end of 2025. Canada was the fourth-largest recipient of new individual asylum applications in the world in 2024. The fix, according to the government, is paperwork. Claimants will fill out one online application instead of several forms, and they will get 60 days to do it, with a 30-day extension on request, up from the 45 days previously allowed at a port of entry. The minister gets 365 days to finish her own “due diligence” on a file before it moves on. Asylum seekers will also get work permits sooner, as soon as a claim is found eligible and the documents are in, rather than waiting for the claim to be…​Read More