Canadians Revolt Against Trudeau’s Mass Migration Economy
by Neil Munro
Polls show that Canadians have sharply reversed their pro-migration views as their housing costs are deliberately spiked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s elite-backed policy of maximizing immigration.
“About 2 in 3 Canadians believe an increase in the annual target of [legal] immigrants as permanent residents will have a negative or somewhat negative impact on the cost of housing, while one in five believe it will have a positive or somewhat impact,” said an August poll of 1,081 Canadians by Nanos Research Group for an August 8 article by Bloomberg News.
The poll summary reported 68 percent opposition and 20 percent support:
A majority of Canadians believe increasing the annual target of [legal] immigrants as permanent residents from 465,000 in 2023 to 500,000 by 2025 would have a negative (42%) or somewhat negative (26%) impact on the cost of housing. One in five believe it will have a positive (8%) or somewhat positive impact (12%), while seven per cent say it will have no impact.
The 20 percent support is sharply down from 52 percent support in February 2023, Bloomberg reported.
The huge legal inflow of new consumers, renters, and workers has expanded the economy, so generating more taxes for Canada’s government.
But Trudeau’s massive legal inflow has spiked housing prices, forced down wages, crowded schools, and caused large backlogs in the nation’s supposedly free healthcare system. One result is a dramatic rise of homelessness in once-prosperous Canada: