Imagine a government that says we should use taxpayers dollars to ensure small businesses hire immigrants over Canadian citizens.

Actually, in Justin Trudeau’s Canada you don’t have to imagine that.

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A government report, one originating from the prime minister’s own department, is calling for government grants to be used to incentivitize small businesses to hire immigrants.

A policy paper called “Feminist Government” calls for small and medium-sized businesses to partner with government to help immigrants get a job using what they call a “Social Impact Bond.” The idea comes from a division of the Privy Council Office, which reports directly to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Unlike other job grant programs, this one seeks to have small and medium-sized businesses become social service agencies that work with government in a very complex scheme. The proposal includes using money to make sure immigrants, especially immigrant women, not only get their first job but are promoted, or as the report says, experience “job laddering.”

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“Under the Social Impact Bond model, the government and employers, with input from stakeholders including job agencies, would first agree on the specifics of what a successful outcome for an ‘initial hire’ or ‘job laddering’ would look like,” the report reads.

“A monetary value would be assigned to each outcome, to be paid to the employer on completion, and a third-party evaluator would monitor the number of successful outcomes.”

Okay, let’s unpack that from bureacratese.

Canadian taxpayers would pay Canadian employers to give special treatment in hiring immigrants for their first job. Then if the business promoted those people, they would be paid special incentives.

All the while, the employers would have to work with government bureaucrats, job agencies and third-party evaluators to make sure they met plans dreamed up at the highest levels of the civil service. Meaning people that have no idea what it is like to run a small business.

Welcome to Justin Trudeau’s Canada.

The report was issued earlier this year and sat unnoticed in a dark corner of the Government of Canada website until uncovered by Tom Korski, a journalist with Blacklock’s Reporter.

“They say this is not government policy, merely a proposal,” Korski said. “But the fact is, it was written by government employees and they published it as a proposal. And the proposal was exactly that, to reward small business by giving them a financial incentive to hire an immigrant over a Canadian single mom, college kid, someone looking for a second job.”

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I get the importance of making sure immigrants are successful in Canada and getting that first job is important. I’m the son of immigrants that grew up in a mostly immigrant neighbourhood.

Still, this proposal stinks.

It might be in keeping with this government’s views though. They seem to fetishize immigrants, view them as more deserving than Canadians that are already here.

Earlier this year, Trudeau’s Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Reagan tweeted we needed more immigrants because immigrants were better at starting businesses and hiring people that Canadian-born residents.

The numbers didn’t fully back him up on that but he put it out there in the middle of a debate.

We have “progressive”-minded governments across Canada, at the federal and provincial level that have made it harder for employers to give anyone an entry-level job.

From boosting minimum wages, soon doubling the Canada Pension Plan contributions of employers, increasing personal days and the regulatory burden of hiring anyone … and the government response … give a subsidy.

But only to hire and promote immigrants.

The Trudeau Liberals keep warning about “divisive politics.” Well let me warn them, this is a divisive idea.

Small and medium-sized businesses don’t need to be co-opted into becoming social agencies of government.

Give them a break.

Make it easier for them to hire anyone, including immigrants, and this policy problem will solve itself.

Go forward with this idea and Canadians will become resentful about the special treatment.