October 24th was a tragic day for real estate developers, speculators, cheap labour employers, business lobbyists, slumlords, corrupt immigration consultants, and strip mall diploma mill operators. On that day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reluctantly caved to public opinion and announced that the Liberal government will slash permanent resident levels by 21%.
Less than one week before the October 24th announcement, an Abacus poll revealed that support for immigration restriction has reached 72% – a statistical supermajority. This includes a majority of all four major political parties and every age group. A month before the announcement, a Leger poll found that majorities of both white and non-white Canadians want lower immigration.
It is now impossible to find even one demographic subset of Canadians that registers majority support for high immigration – except perhaps if you exclusively surveyed CEOs, bank presidents, or woke university professors (politics makes for strange bedfellows).
There is no prominent, well-funded immigration restriction lobby in this country – in fact, there is a prominent, well-funded pro-immigration lobby. Columnists – with the exception of yours truly – almost never wrote the word “immigration” before the summer of 2023. The Canadian public was not goaded by public figures into opposing mass immigration by a margin of three to one; this trend was entirely grassroots.
The shift in public attitudes was the result of countless private conversations in which regular people shared worries about job lines full of international students that stretched around the block, Canadian youth outcompeted by foreign workers for positions at Tim Horton’s, seniors living in RVs because of sky-high rent, and hospitals overcrowded by an annual inflow of 1.3 million newcomers.
It is entirely possible that the 72% figure could climb still higher, as Canadians begin to awaken to the reality that everything the political elite – of all major parties – has told us about immigration over the last few decades has been pure fiction.
The so-called “labour shortages” are fluctuations that self-correct over time if left alone, the “ageing society” line merely describes a transitory demographic phenomenon that other countries handle without opening their borders one inch, and the “we need population growth to grow the GDP” claim ignores the fact that too much population growth reduces GDP per capita.
The case for mass immigration rests on false premises, but there is a small slice of this country whose financial well-being depends on endless population growth – the people I mentioned in my first sentence. They will fight tooth and nail to protect their ill-begotten gains.
The truth is that the mass immigration project is couched in lovely humanitarian rhetoric about diversity and cultural mosaics, but is fundamentally driven by business interests. In 2023, the Century Initiative lobby that wants 100 million Canadians by 2100 received donations from BMO, TD Bank, Scotiabank, and CIBC.
Corporate con artists and immigration profiteers have leveraged the kindness and goodwill of Canadians to convince us to accept their population growth Ponzi scheme. The country is beginning to wise up to their bold scam.
Editor’s note: My Counter Current column is published once every two weeks in the Islands Marketplace paper on Salt Spring Island. This piece will appear in the November 1st, 2024 issue.
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