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Originally Posted by chowhou
Do we really need a municipal politics thread to talk about federal policy? 
I believe the argument is that we've easily been able to handle our current immigration rate in the past, there's little reason to believe we can't nowadays.
(I couldn't find a graph including 2022-2023, but I believe the immigration rate was about 3% for both if we include both permanent and temporary residents)
I've always maintained that Canada is one of the largest countries in the world with close to unlimited land, and construction labour should be proportional to population, so if we can't provide housing to everyone that arrives in Canada that's a failure in construction policy, not in immigration policy. |
Ok sorry but this is just a way to rationalize the problem.
"If A would be true, then B would be possible. So the problem is A".
This not how reality works. There are plenty of things in our world that could be possible but they will not be.
If we are clearly failing with the housing policy THEN we clearly can't take more people.
Could we solve the housing problem? I don't know, maybe yes, maybe no, what i know is that it's not happening.
So maybe we should follow the logical path of a problem. If people need a house and we don't have them, then first we fix the housing problem and then we raise the immigration proportionally.
Letting million of people coming here to become homeless because "we could have houses tho" is nonsense.
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