Justin Trudeau knew it, but he did it anyway. Documents show that as early as 2019, senior officials at Canada's Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship warned the Trudeau government that a massive increase in immigrants would have a very negative impact on housing and health services.
Worse, this high level of immigration would not lead to an increase in per capita wealth.
Despite these warnings, which were entirely reasonable, the Trudeau government decided to open the floodgates to immigration.
Canada's population has never grown so rapidly. Canada has become the western country that receives by far the most immigrants.
Many believe the Trudeau government has even lost control of immigration. That is, instead of receiving mainly targeted immigration that contributes to the development of various sectors of the economy where there is a shortage of workers, Canada is now accepting more and more immigrants who do not bring income to the country.
Terrible pressure
This surplus of immigrants is now putting upward pressure on rents and contributing to overcrowded hospital waiting rooms.
It is again this excess of immigration that is responsible for some of the problems in schools, as many immigrant children speak neither French nor English and have also suffered traumas that sometimes seriously disable them.
Assuming that immigration returns to normal this year, it would still take many years, if not decades, until housing, health and education are back in balance – and even then, the situation before was far from perfect.
In other words, the Trudeau government sacrificed the well-being of Canadians for the sake of foreigners wanting to come to Canada. This is exactly the opposite of a government's first duty, which is to protect the country from the outside world.
Perverse effects
And in turn, this massive immigration will have further perverse effects that we are only just beginning to recognize.
As in all societies, new immigrants are the first to be affected by recessions. In difficult times, due to a lack of family networks, they are more likely to join criminal groups than other groups.
This massive immigration is largely responsible for the increase in homelessness in cities. However, these homeless people congregate in certain neighborhoods, causing businesses to close and residents to flee.
In addition, some immigrants bring with them a range of racist, anti-democratic and even anti-Western values. As long as immigration rates remained reasonable, the number of these unwanted immigrants remained marginal. But as immigration thresholds skyrocket, the fear is that these problematic immigrants will form a critical mass that will sooner or later find political voices to defend them. To a certain extent, this is already the case with various Islamist associations.
In short, to put it bluntly: Trudeau's migration policies have gotten us into deep trouble, and we are only just beginning to feel the effects.
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