With its increasingly ultra-massive immigration policy, Justin Trudeau’s liberal government is falling behind and falling into political irresponsibility.
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Justin Trudeau’s liberal minority government followed the Toronto lobby’s recommendations on Tuesday century initiativeannounced its plan to raise Canada’s annual immigration targets to accommodate 500,000 new permanent residents by 2025, a figure that would set an all-time record and, all things considered, surpass what no other country is doing.
The Trudeau government deliberately underestimated the economic, social and ecological problems that could arise from such overpopulation.
It also violates the democratic principle because it advocates for the future of the population for decades without explicitly consulting them, by conducting public consultations in the due form and without holding a referendum or an election on such an important issue. Remember, there was an election in Canada in 1988 that specifically focused on a free trade policy between Canada and the United States.
It should be noted that the Liberal Party of Canada (PLC) received only 32.6% of the vote in the September 20, 2021 general election. In addition, since the turnout rate for this election was only 62.9%, it received direct popular support—the LPC received by all Canadian voters was only 20.3%. No one can argue that the current liberal minority government in office in Ottawa enjoys a clear and legitimate mandate from the people of Canada to fundamentally transform the country’s demographic makeup over the coming decades.
No study
It also goes against the principle of good governance because this minority government has not produced a serious economic study, or at least a white paper, to back up its ultra-massive immigration policies, preferring instead to focus on the interests of private lobbies, such as those of Toronto’s Century Initiative, whose The goal is to triple Canada’s population to 100 million by the year 2100.
The organization predicts that the population of the Greater Toronto Area would increase from 8.8 to 33.5 million people; that of metropolitan Montreal would swell from 4.4 to 12.2 million residents; that of metropolitan Vancouver would increase from 3.3 to 11.9 million inhabitants, and so on. In such a swollen demographic context, the commercial paradise that some envision is more of a hell of congestion, pollution, permanent housing shortages, overburdening of public health, education and transport services, in addition to a deterioration in social cohesion and many other social ones problems.
Likewise, the Trudeau administration failed to provide a measure of the social, political, and environmental impacts of its most radical demographic race into the void of all time.
In order to transform Canada at all costs into a country that would resemble the United States of the North, this administration, consciously or unconsciously, is preparing Canada for integration with the United States – which itself is grappling with serious social and political problems – within a generation or two.
opposition
It is the responsibility of opposition parties in the House of Commons to oppose the ultra-massive improvised immigration policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority liberal government and, if necessary, to force them to present the studies justifying such policies. If not, they must force him to call new elections so that the people can have a say in this existential question.
We cannot brag about living in a democracy and at the same time let private lobbies dictate public policy.
Rodrigue Tremblay, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Montreal and former Minister