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Immigration remained mostly consistent and “definitely not ‘millions’” till last year when it hit 500,000 for some reason:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigra...

The whole “millions of immigrants” is just a property of the recent alt-right attempt at a take over of HN.

Looking around, it appears that immigration rates were raised due to aging population issues. While other places around the world are looking at moving retirement to 75.

Crony capitalism is causing higher immigration, so it’s somewhat hilarious for these people to think that an even more crony party is going to help offset this.

I was looking separately and I think I found where the claim comes from: > The federal government's latest immigration levels plan, released last fall, would see Canada welcome 500,000 immigrants annually by 2025. In contrast, the immigration target for 2015 was under 300,000.

Then:

> In 2022, Canada's population grew by more than one million people, a number that included 607,782 non-permanent residents and 437,180 immigrants. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/feds-immigration-strategy-s...

"In 2022, Canada’s population grew by an unprecedented 1.1 million people, most of them permanent and temporary immigrants."

From StatCan - The Canadian Census. "alt-right" my ass.

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/3861-40-million-strong-...

Your CBC news link 404's.

That’s a lot of people. Where are all those people going to be housed? Where will the resources for their education and gainful employment come from? Is the Canadian job market exploding with a huge amount of well paying jobs such that Canada’s children have multiple options to pick from, or will everyone be competing for scraps?

So I don’t know how much you know about economics but it’s well known that gaining an increased population of working aged adults is actually pretty good for the economy, because they generate demand (create jobs) and then also take up jobs (generate supply). Immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs and statistically consume less social services.

Those numbers exclude non permanent residents who also need a place of residence.

It should, but the mouth pieces have stuck with their spiel that their own policies can't be helped, are necessary, because of "labor shortages". In other words, horseshit. I think people at the top are positioning themselves because they made large investments and want their return, so the lobbying efforts are to stall the slowing rate of immigration, or anything else that would increase housing starts / availability.

Labor shortage is such a lie. when they say that they just mean there aren’t enough low-information workers who will work for meager wages in a high taxation environment in a race to the bottom while some political dynasties always skim from the top. I hope you can all muster up the strength to vote in better leaders who put the citizens first.

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