This government is blaming immigrants for the mistakes they're making, one after the other. More than 9 immigration ministers have already passed. Inflation has risen to 2.4%, food, housing, etc. They want to say that 50,000 immigrants on the waiting list for humanitarian and compassionate programs are the reason. This is pathetic. Students, workers, and immigrants drive the economy in this country. In short, I believe this government won't last even a year.
Most aren’t blaming the immigrants they are primarily blaming the immigration policies and the various levels of government who looked the other way when there were obvious issues. Except for a very small number of people Canadians still support immigration but at levels that make sense, that doesn’t incentivize filing applications with no grounds, that removes people when they have no status or commit serious crimes and that do benefit the economy, do make life better for anyone living in Canada, etc. Bad immigration policies and poor planning, provinces licensing & essentially ignoring the degree mills & fraud, many municipalities ignoring unsafe and illegal rental housing, etc. all occurred so there is plenty of blame to go around. There are also many who arrived in Canada and did not follow the terms of their stays, committed fraud, didn’t have genuine intentions, etc. We are talking about millions of non-PRs and citizens in Canada not just H&C applicants. Yes that caused additional infrastructure strain, has had both positive and negative economic impacts, has lead to an increase in crime, etc. There is some nuance to this situation also depending on the actual immigrant. There are many who have benefited financially from the poor immigration policies and many were also made false promises from people inside and outside Canada. The big issue is that this new government is left to try to fix a big mess at an already very challenging time for Canada. There are going to have to be tough decisions by the government on various issues including immigration. The support for Carney remains high so the other parties have minimal incentive to trigger another election and they also would risk handing Carney a majority. The parties are also aware that voters want politicians to try to address problems facing Canada not trigger another election. Very unrealistic to think that we will have an election in a year. The NDP alone could prop up the government because they aren’t in a financial position to run another campaign and will worry about losing more seats.
