Ottawa’s Immigration Myths and Madness

Ottawa’s Immigration Myths and Madness
Police remind people to keep their social distance as they lineup to get into a homeless shelter in Montreal on March 31, 2020. (Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press)
Bill Tufts
8/24/2023
Updated:
8/28/2023
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Commentary

Canada’s mass immigration plan is accelerating. The impact of this plan will be devastating to the country in a variety of ways including the economy, scarce housing, overloaded health care, collapsing education, and unaffordable social programs.

This is a tsunami of mass immigration.

Tsunamis are not just waves, but a series of waves that wash in from the epicentre of an earthquake. Each wave adds more destruction to the previous waves. This is what is happening in Canada—the first wave has hit and has wiped out housing. There are potentially hundreds of thousands of newcomers without homes, and prices are becoming some of the most expensive in the world.

The rapid acceleration of Canada’s mass immigration began in the latter part of 2022 when COVID restrictions were eliminated and people around the world were able to travel again. In the 12 months preceding June 30, over 1.2 million people arrived.

Mass immigration originated with a couple of UN and WEF globalist initiatives based on Agenda 2030. The Migration Compact was introduced in 2018 as part of their “Sustainable Development Goals.” In that year, Canada saw a population increase of 529,000.

The ultimate aim of mass immigration is based on the Agenda 2030 goal to distribute wealth from Western nations to what globalists call the Global South. This principle is based on the concept that all people in the world should live on the same general level of annual income, except for the elites who benefit greatly from mass migration.

Until late last year, Statistics Canada had not published numbers of newcomers in any comprehensive way. The “quarterly population estimates” of newcomers came in from a variety of programs, as I wrote about previously. StatCan now reports that population growth in 2022 was 1,050,110—95.9 percent of those being newcomers.

The most immediate and visible impact is on housing. Across the country, house prices have exploded and the cost of renting is unsustainable for many Canadians. A huge shortage of available homes and rental accommodation developed. There is the potential that hundreds of thousands of newcomers will end up on the streets, homeless, with no place to shelter, at an incoming rate of about 100,000 a month.

The federal government needed to hide the real extent of the mass immigration to reduce voter opposition and set about trying to create bogus excuses that were never analyzed in parliamentary committees or other public forums. Canadians who question the rationale for the tsunami are demonized by the Liberal government as being racist or xenophobic.

One major justification the government fabricated for the mass migration is the “labour shortages” of skilled workers. This is a lie, and StatCan did a report reflecting that this is a myth. The report showed that there were one million jobs unfilled, but that was the same number of unemployed Canadians.

The same applied for skilled labour with 113,000 vacant positions requiring a bachelor’s degree or higher education. Of the 227,000 unemployed individuals either born in Canada or landed immigrants, half hold such an education.

With up to two million newcomers arriving in 2022 (866,000) and 2023 (1.2 million) that is a huge number relative to the 21.1 million current workforce, if they were all qualified workers.

The government claims that mass immigration is needed to fill labour shortages. During the same period that 1.2 million newcomers arrived, only 470,000 new jobs were created. If the real purpose for immigration was to bring in new workers to fill jobs it’s a lie, since a majority of newcomers don’t have jobs and are being supported by taxpayers. StatCan does not even include all these newcomers in their Labour Forces Survey, meaning the real unemployment is substantially larger than they report, by likely several hundred thousand unemployed workers. This accounts for skyrocketing demand at food banks.

The conversation about appropriate levels of immigration has started to become unavoidable, despite the government’s attempt to demonize anyone who wants to question its plan. With these population pressures the collapse of many sectors of the economy and society will happen in health care, education, and social programs. It’s like dominoes–first housing collapses, and then the rest of society follows.

Large numbers of newcomers entering again this year will heap gasoline onto an already raging inferno of a struggling economy. Mass immigration is putting unbearable pressure on Canadian housing. The mayor of Guelph recently called for a summit of emergency measures to deal with the housing crisis, saying “people are scared.”

Governments across Canada are completely unprepared for this gigantic wave. A wave of numbers that in just a two-year period will see more arrivals than in many 10-year periods over the last century, and is only set to continue at such giant levels, with Trudeau telling us there is no intent to slow down.

A major problem is that provinces and municipalities have to pay and become responsible for the destructive decisions made by federal politicians. Some of the services being crushed by the immigration wrecking ball are the responsibility of provinces including health care and education. Others are a municipal responsibility, like housing and food bank security. One food bank in the Toronto area says 95 percent of new people flooding in are newcomers. Newcomers are responsible for the demand on the infrastructure that is required to accommodate this huge wave.

As an example, Alberta had 201,000 newcomers arrive in the past 12 months. The City of Red Deer is the province’s third largest city with 99,000 people and 43,000 homes. The city was formed in 1913 and it took a century to build the infrastructure required to support its population. So what will be the impact of 200,000 pushed into Alberta in just one year, continuing into the foreseeable future? Alberta would need to build 86,000 new homes for arriving newcomers, but in 2022 it only constructed 28,000 dwellings.

The numbers are equally grim across Canada. The 1.2 million arriving in the past 12 months would require 480,000 new homes at the same density, but Canada only managed to complete 197,000 homes last year.

Recently, the CHMC stated that in order to have enough homes for Canadians, the country needs to build 5.8 million homes by 2023. With the density of homes in Canada at 2.5 people per home, that would mean a population increase of 14.5 million in the next 7 years, or a population the size of Ontario.

That’s insanity.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Bill Tufts is a political commentator. He is the founder of Fair Pensions For All, an advocacy group focusing on public-sector pension and compensation issues, and author of the book "Pension Ponzi."
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