Statscan has a nice data visualizer of popn that shows the different components of growth pretty clearly. I've shown here only the 4th quarter to smooth out the data.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/...019036-eng.htm
Through the 2000s it was relatively stable between 20k-30k for the fourth quarter. It doubled in 2017, and then shot up again in 2019. There's an obvious dip in 2020 (but only back to normal levels for the 2000s) but shooting back up to 220k last fall, a 10x increase!
Let me repeat that, a 10-fold increase in growth over the course of 5 years!?! And they have the audacity to play dumb on housing? I don't know how anyone could look at that graph and not conclude that this government has been astonishingly reckless drawing in that many people without some sort of comprehensive national housing policy. What exactly are they trying to accomplish?!