We must signal the end of the open bar of temporary immigration.
Categorical verdict for an increasingly glaring political problem.
However, this time, it is neither the PQ nor the CAQ that is calling for it. It was the federal Minister of Immigration who said this in an interview with the CBC.
For a government that has mastered the art of demonizing anyone who criticizes its immigration policy, the turnaround is spectacular.
The Liberals have no choice. Their political survival depends on it.
Housing crisis
It must be admitted that Minister Marc Miller is in a very bad situation.
We learned last week that the government was warned two years ago that a meteoric rise in new arrivals would exacerbate the housing crisis. But that did not prevent it from aiming to welcome 500,000 permanent residents in 2025.
But it doesn’t stop there. Ottawa has completely lost control of students and temporary foreign workers. By the minister’s own admission, there is no target.
In 2023, 800,000 of them will arrive in the country. This is 200,000 more than in 2022.
Canada has never seen such a rapid increase in its population since 1957.
Re-election
Whatever the Trudeau government ministers say, in 2023, it is impossible to dissociate immigration from the housing crisis.
There is almost unanimity among the country’s experts and economists.
Moreover, Pierre Poilièvre finally jumped into the fray, no longer fearing alienating the vote of the cultural communities in the suburbs essential to a possible victory.
“We have to make the link between the number of houses built and the people we invite,” he said Friday.
Common sense some would say.
Listening to Minister Marc Miller, even the Liberals finally seem to have come around.
This shows that electoral imperatives can sometimes get the better of the most stubborn dogmas.
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