Liberal NDP Mass Immigration 2023 to 2025 | Health Care Vaccine Mandate still ON

Trudeau / Jagmeet have the highest immigration recorded for Canada's history with 440,000 immigrants in 2022, and a future target of 500 000 every year till the 2025 election. This doesn't include the 800,000 temporary visa workers, and 80,000+ that illegally crossed over the Quebec border. Canada's population is only 38 million, so having 500,000 unskilled or non working family immigrants per year, puts a large strain on Canada and select cities such as Vancouver and Toronto areas. That's 4% of Canada in the next 3 years having to be supported by tax payers with Trudeau inflation. #massimmigration #trudeauinflation #housingprices #immigration #irnieracingnews #maximebernier

Commonly used arguments in support of higher immigration levels are flawed. High immigration in itself cannot solve the labour shortages that affect some sectors of the economy. Immigrants are not just workers but also consumers of goods and services, which creates demand for labour in other sectors and simply displaces the problem. This explains why we still have labour shortages even though Canada has had one of the highest levels of immigration in the world for several years.

Moreover, only about one quarter of all newcomers to Canada every year are directly chosen because they have the right qualifications and work experience to fulfill our economic needs. The rest are dependents (spouses and children) of economic immigrants, or come through the family reunification program or as refugees. They either do not work, or do not have the skills that are most in need even if they find work.

Mass immigration partly explains why wages and productivity have been stagnant in Canada, as cheaper immigrant labour is often favoured by employers over capital investment and automation. Although a large increase in the number of workers makes our economy larger, it also makes it less productive and impede GDP growth per capita. What’s important is not to have a larger economy, but to be richer.

Mass immigration increases pressure on our infrastructures, health care system, and social programs. It also inflates housing prices. More than 42% of all immigrants to Canada settle in and around Toronto and Vancouver, which have some of the least affordable housing among big cities in the world (see policy on Housing).

Finally, newcomers are a bit younger on average than Canadians, but not enough to have a noticeable impact on the rate of aging. The Liberal government has made matters worse by increasing the number of parents and grand-parents accepted under the family reunification program.