Ontario Premier Doug Ford said the federal government is to blame for the province’s housing crisis, claiming Ottawa’s immigration policies have brought over 800,000 additional people into Ontario, which contradicts government figures.
“In the last election, we didn’t have the housing crisis. And just up to a few months back, I didn’t know the federal government was going to bring in over 500,000 [people]—now we learned that those aren’t accurate numbers, it’s probably up to 700,000 to 800,000 arriving,” Mr. Ford said during a press conference on Aug. 31.
