U.S. Vice President JD Vance says the stagnation of living standards in Canada is due to a rapid rise in immigration rather than to tariffs imposed by the United States.
Vance made the comments while reacing to a post on X indicating that Canada’s per-capita GDP has remained stagnant since 2018. He said the reasons for this trend were “complicated,” but noted that Canada had brought in a large number of immigrants in recent years. He also noted Canada has the highest foreign-born share of the population among G7 countries, which was confirmed by Statistics Canada’s 2021 census.
“With all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame,” Vance added….