TRUDEAU’S OUT-OF-CONTROL IMMIGRATION HURTING JOBS AND HOUSING

Over the last year, employment has grown by 1.6% or 324,000 jobs while Canada’s population has grown by 3.2% or more than one million people considered working age. There are now 247,000 more people listed as unemployed in Canada than there were a year ago.

In Ontario, where the largest population growth has happened and where most of the immigrant population settles, there are 576,000 people unemployed, an increase of 134,000 compared to March 2023. In that same time frame, the province’s unemployment rate has risen from 5.3% to 6.7% despite Ontario adding 86,000 new jobs in that time period.

“In 2017, temporary residents made up about 2% of Canada’s population. Right now, they make up about seven and a half percent of Canada’s population. That’s where all the pressure on our housing, or a big part of the pressure on our housing markets, and other areas are coming from,” Trudeau said.

Temporary residents are part of the immigration system, that would be something the federal government is responsible for. Even if a college, university or province, wants to have an international student enter the country, the final say, and this includes on how many can come, rests with the federal government.

Trudeau’s solution?

Reduce the temporary resident portion of our population down to 5% from the current 7.5%.

That is still not likely enough to solve the problem.

Trudeau is only now admitting that immigration levels are too high, but as recently as November was responding to questions about lower housing costs in the United States by suggesting that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was anti-immigration.

Well, it used to create jobs and prosperity but then the Liberals broke the system. They ramped up immigration levels, on all fronts, to unsustainable levels.

Our permanent resident intake was 431,645 in 2022 and we are on our way to 500,000. We took in nearly 900,000 foreign students last year. On the refugee front, we’ve seen a spike from 16,000 people seeking asylum in 2015 when Trudeau took office to 137,000 last year.

We are in the middle of a housing crisis – we don’t have enough homes for the people who live here already and that is creating an affordability crisis. Now, we are adding on a growing level of unemployment, which could soon be headed for crisis levels.

In the middle of all this, no sane country would admit one million new people in the space of nine months.

Under Trudeau though, we don’t have policy based in sanity or reality but on his feelings.