Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada needs “very hard caps on immigration levels” going forward, citing limitations in areas such as housing and employment.
Speaking to media during a July 14 press conference, Poilievre said Canada needs “more people leaving than coming for the next couple of years” in order to relieve the strain on Canada’s employment numbers, housing, and health care.
“We’ve had population growth of roughly a million a year under the Liberals while we barely built 200,000 homes,” Poilievre said. “Our job market is stalled and yet we are adding more people to the workforce. Our young people are facing generational highs in unemployment because … multinational corporations are giving jobs to low-wage, temporary foreign workers.” …