Canada’s Conservative leader will focus on mass immigration ahead of the 28 April election.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre is hammering Justin Trudeau’s successor, Mark Carney, for supporting mass immigration that has inflicted economic damage on ordinary Canadians, according to Breitbart News.

The two parties are close in the polls. Poilievre criticises Carney for supporting Trudeau’s highly unpopular immigration policy.

In 2015, the investor-led Century Initiative persuaded Trudeau to grow the economy by increasing the country’s population from 36 million to 100 million by 2100. Trudeau imported four million migrants, increasing the country’s population by more than 10 per cent.

The huge growth of legal migrants included many Indians and migrants who were too old to work. The result for ordinary Canadians was an economic shock and massive, long-term economic damage.

Wages declined, healthcare became overburdened, housing costs soared, productivity decayed, crime exploded, and foreign conflicts and

These are well-known consequences of the population shifts that we are also experiencing here in Western Europe.

But while ordinary people struggled financially, there were, of course, some who profited from the development.

Canada’s big investors and senior citizens profited enormously. Trudeau’s mass migration caused the stock market to rise by 40 per cent, with a flood of consumers, renters and low-wage workers.

Poilievre gives Carney shared responsibility. On Monday, he described the Century Initiative’s ideas to a journalism student:

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Promises tax relief

Poilievre upped the ante on his signature bill on housing on Tuesday, promising to get rid of the GST on new homes selling for up to $1.3 million CAD if he wins next month’s federal election, writes the National Post.

The GST is a federal tax comparable to our value-added tax, although it is lower (5 per cent). In Norway, however, you don’t pay GST when buying a home (but you do in Hungary, for example).

A measure like this will reduce costs by up to 65,000 CAD, according to Poilievre. This amounts to around 480,000 Norwegian kroner.

Poilievre says the measure is necessary to enable middle-class people to own homes in expensive markets like Vancouver and Toronto.

-(Prime Minister Mark) Carney doesn’t understand that Canadians can no longer afford to live in the cities and towns they grew up in, says Poilievre.

Carney – who is a former Governor of the Bank of England – is probably fully aware of the situation. Whether he cares is another question altogether.

The Liberal Party is now rubbing its electoral face in it, promising to remove GST for homes under $1 million. This comes just one month after they voted against such a proposal in parliament.

The election will be held on 28 April, and the result will have a major impact on Canada’s future.

 


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