… Immigrants not only add to the demand for housing, they also increase congestion for a wide range of public services: doctors, hospitals, schools, universities, parks, retirement homes, and roads and bridges, as well as the utilities that supply water, electricity and sewers. In theory, the supply of all these things could be expanded reasonably rapidly. In practice, expansion is slow. But the main reasons for that are, not a shortage of labour, but inadequate planning, insufficient financial resources and, as a result, construction that lags demand.
The case for keeping annual immigration at traditional or even somewhat lower levels rests on more than the effect on house prices and public services, however. Immigration also depresses the wages of low-income workers, which results in greater income-equalizing transfers and the higher taxes required to pay for them. It also reduces employers’ incentives to adopt labour-saving technology, an important source of growth in labour productivity and wages, and it allows employers to avoid the cost of operating apprenticeship programs to train skilled workers.
Why isn’t Poilievre speaking out about the immigration scam? Why not Jagmeet, he of the working people’s party?
Because they seek to please their corporate masters as Justin does. They don’t give a damn about you or your children. They don’t give a damn where the bodies come from or the damage they inflict on Canada. They just want a place at the public trough and providing wage slaves ensures the corporate class will back them.
Canada’s immigration policy is Corporate welfare no ifs ands or buts.
