Ottawa is going to slash the number of new permanent residents welcomed to the country by 21 per cent to 395,000 next year amid a growing sentiment among Canadians that there’s too much immigration.
Last November, in response to the affordable housing crisis and rising cost of living, Immigration Minister Marc Miller put a brake on further increases of the permanent resident numbers and set a target of 500,000 for 2025 and 2026.
The damage is done. Housing crisis, depressed wages, depressed GDP, inaccessible public services, social strife from incompatible cultures, all this will be Trudeau’s legacy.
It will take years for Canada to dig itself out of the mess Trudeau’s Liberal Party created. I am doubtful it can.
