Douglas Todd: Ottawa has lured a supercharged volume of immigrants and temporary residents to Metro Vancouver — 119,000 in one year alone — without providing the infrastructure to support them.
“I guess the federal government had this misguided idea that you could invite all these people to Canada and they wouldn’t have needs. They were never going to use the health-care system, they were never going to flush a toilet, they were never going to send their kids to school.”
So says Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, who is among the few politicians raising alarms about what he calls a “sleeper issue” — that Ottawa has been allowing a high number of immigrants and temporary residents into the country without providing the infrastructure to support them.
