
This is unprecedented: last weekend, the Minister of Immigration, Marc Miller, lamented the poor performance of his own government in matters of… immigration.
“Out of control”, “disconcerting”, the minister used adjectives giving the impression that he was a member of the opposition holding the government to account.
Around a hundred thousand temporary residents enter Canada EVERY MONTH (!). These temporary residents include students, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers.
Regular immigrants represented some 1.2 million people in 2022.
However, we still do not know how to decently house all these new arrivals.
However, we are talking about more than two million people per year, all categories combined.
I am personally in favor of immigration, but everything must be planned and well managed, otherwise chaos sets in and that is precisely what we are experiencing.
Two years ago, senior public administration in Ottawa warned Trudeau of the enormous housing shortage that awaited us if nothing changed.
So what is happening was not only predictable, it was planned!
The scandal is that Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has done absolutely nothing, despite warnings from its officials.
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