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0 pointsBJones121y ago0 comments

> The largely conservative provinces have done a very good job of blaming Trudeau and immigration for problems that are entirely their own.

No. Immigration reduces available housing. Immigration overloads the health care system. Immigration strains the education system. Immigration creates ethnic enclaves that are hard to police.

Immigration is a federal responsibility. Trudeau and the Liberals are to blame.

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bryanlarsen1y ago

Does immigration make these things worse? Yes. But it's only a very small part of the problem. You can't blame the entire problem on a minor cause.

Here's a very good 55 point plan to fix housing: https://www.ontario.ca/page/housing-affordability-task-force...

BC implemented far more of those points than Ontario has, and succeeded in changing Vancouver's housing costs from ~2X Toronto's to 1X Toronto's.

And P.S. the immigration surge was mostly in student visa's, driven by Colleges under provincial jurisdiction.

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