Immigration , not Climate Change is The Most Urgent Issue Facing Canada and the US

[Lokmar]

In the case of Justin Trudeau, it's not quite that sinister. You see, our pm has the economic depth of a finger bowl. More people consuming artificially glosses over Canada's economic decline on his watch. It really is that simple as our pm really is that simplistic.

Do you know his predecessor was a respected economist. Stephen Harper was also a mensa member.

Honestly, I seldom paid much attention to him. I take it he was a good PM and thats why I dont know much about him. Its always the shitbags that get everyones attention! Trudeau is a complete cunt! Only Canadians can fix it though. Good luck!

[DKG]

Honestly, I seldom paid much attention to him. I take it he was a good PM and thats why I dont know much about him. Its always the shitbags that get everyones attention! Trudeau is a complete cunt! Only Canadians can fix it though. Good luck!

He schooled Barack Obama in his response to the financial crisis of 2008. Canadians were richer than Americans on his superior watch. He is now one of the world's most respected statesmen.

He wasn't photogenic, he was overweight, and he didn't pose for selfies. He didn't call people that disagreed with him racists. His prudent government was laser focused on the economic well being of Canadians.

[Lokmar]

He schooled Barack Obama in his response to the financial crisis of 2008. Canadians were richer than Americans on his superior watch. He is now one of the world's most respected statesmen.

He wasn't photogenic, he was overweight, and he didn't pose for selfies. He didn't call people that disagreed with him racists. His prudent government was laser focused on the economic well being of Canadians.

It's very unfortunate that people focus more on looks and personality than on results.

[DKG]

It's very unfortunate that people focus more on looks and personality than on results.

Precisely. See, liberals like me and righties like you can agree once in a while.

[Thiel]

I can't believe I am saying this, but immigration is now one of the top problems facing Canada. Until very recently, I beleived it was one of the things we did very well.


Liberal immigration policy sabotaging Liberal housing policy
Everyone in the Liberal government is saying something has to be done about the immigration policies it created that have contributed to today's affordable housing crisis

Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser's year-end announcement in an interview with The Canadian Press that the Trudeau government will unveil a "renewed" housing plan in 2024 raises the question of what happened to all of its previous housing plans?

The Liberals have been coming up with new housing plans ever since the 2015 election that brought them to power.

In 2017, they announced their National Housing Strategy – originally a 10-year, $40-billion plan which has since grown to more than $82 billion, slated to run until March 2028, "to give more Canadians a place to call home."

The problem is their immigration policies are undermining their housing policies, presumably one of the things their latest "renewed" housing plan is intended to address, in another example of the Liberals announcing new plans to fix problems caused by their previous plans.

When Fraser was immigration minister last year, he proudly announced the Liberals' "ambitious" plan to boost Canada's annual immigration targets to 465,000 permanent residents this year, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025, thus putting enormous pressure on Canada's housing market and undermining housing affordability.

The Liberals have since announced their target for 2026 will be another 500,000 permanent residents, compared to 242,000 when the Liberals came to power in 2015.

Canada will also accept a record 900,000 international students this year compared to 312,000 in 2015, according to current Immigration Minister Marc Miller.

Now add to that the fact Canada admitted 220,000 temporary foreign workers last year, an increase of 68% compared to 2021, according to a Globe and Mail analysis of federal data.

The cumulative result of these policies, as Statistics Canada reported earlier this month, is that, "Canada's population was estimated at 40,528,396 on Oct. 1, 2023, an increase of 430,635 people (+1.1%) from July 1 ... the highest population growth rate in any quarter since the second quarter of 1957 (+1.2%), when Canada's population grew by 198,000 people ...

"Canada's total population growth for the first nine months of 2023 (+1,030,378 people) had already exceeded the total growth for any other full-year period since Confederation in 1867, including 2022, when there was a record growth."

Now, everyone in the Liberal government from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on down is saying something has to be done about the immigration policies it created that have contributed to today's affordable housing crisis.

But the Liberals are focusing on abuses in the international student and temporary worker programs, rather than their dramatic increases to Canada's immigration levels.

On that issue, the Liberals insist, Canada needs more immigrants to build more housing, because, as Miller put it in August, "Without those skilled workers coming from outside Canada, we absolutely cannot build the homes and meet the demand that exists currently today."

But numerous critics have pointed out the logical fallacy with this argument.

As the TD Bank warned: "Continuing with a high-growth immigration strategy could widen the housing shortfall by about a half-million units within just two years. Recent government policies to accelerate construction are unlikely to offer a stop-gap due to the short time period and the natural lags in adjusting supply."

The National Bank of Canada cautioned: "The federal government's decision to open the immigration floodgates during the most aggressive monetary tightening cycle in a generation has created a record imbalance between housing and demand ... As housing affordability pressures continue to mount across the country, we believe Ottawa should consider revising its immigration targets to allow supply to catch up with demand."

BMO (Bank of Montreal) reported, "Heightened immigration flows designed to ease labour supply pressure immediately add to the housing demand they are trying to meet ... The infrastructure in place and the industry's ability to build clearly can't support unchecked levels of demand, so the affordability conundrum continues."

Deputy Bank of Canada governor Toni Gravelle noted in a recent speech, as reported by The Canadian Press, that, "this jump in demographic demand coupled with the existing structural supply issues could explain why rent inflation continues to climb in Canada. It also helps explain, in part, why housing prices have not fallen as much as we had expected."

To be sure, Canada's affordable housing shortage isn't solely attributable to federal immigration policy – high interest rates are another factor along with the impact of provincial and municipal housing policies.

Long term, the Trudeau government argues, Canada needs high immigration levels to provide the workers of the future, due to low domestic birth rates.

But that said, and as the Trudeau government continues to announce new deals with municipalities to build more housing, remember their current high immigration polices are undermining those efforts.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-liberal-immigration-policy-sabotaging-liberal-housing-policy

What a 180. When I joined this forum you were the biggest cheerleader for mass immigration.

[DKG]

What a 180. When I joined this forum you were the biggest cheerleader for mass immigration.

When you joined this forum Canada was not admitting 1.5 million people a year.

[Thiel]

When you joined this forum Canada was not admitting 1.5 million people a year.

I read in one quarter alone of 2023, Canada's accepted a half a million people.

[Brent]

In 2021, Quebec received 10,085 asylum requests, compared to 59,740 in 2023.

Most of the requests come from people of Mexican citizenship. In 2021 there were 1,335 requests from Mexican citizens. In 2023, the government received 15,210 requests. A high number of people with Haitian or Colombian citizenship also requested refugee status in the province.

Those who land at Trudeau Airport, and have nowhere to stay after requesting refugee status, are sent to a shelter run by the Regional Program for the Settlement and Integration of Asylum Seekers known as PRAIDA.

Refugees from Mexico. What are we doing.

[Shen Li]

I watched CBC news last night(don't ask me why). They had some libtard activist talking about Canada's housing crisis. That white fool was in denial. He blamed everything except the real culprit unsustainable immigration levels for increased demand.

[Lokmar]

I watched CBC news last night(don't ask me why). They had some libtard activist talking about Canada's housing crisis. That white fool was in denial. He blamed everything except the real culprit unsustainable immigration levels for increased demand.

That is typical stupidity from a libtard of ANY color!

[Shen Li]

That is typical stupidity from a libtard of ANY color!

Libtardation is an affliction that has really spread among whites.

[Lokmar]

Libtardation is an affliction that has really spread among whites.

I wish I could say you're all wrong. Its like a fukin cancer.