2023-08-10 04:00:00
Justin Trudeau wants 500,000 immigrants a year. What to think?
To have a chance to think well, you need at least two basic conditions: to name things correctly and to respect the facts.
Let’s start with the words.
The Larousse defines the word “fanatic” as follows: “who is carried away by an excessive ardor, an inordinate passion for a religion, a cause, a party, etc.”
You will decide whether or not this applies to Trudeau’s views on immigration.
Reality
Let’s get to the facts.
Massive immigration is necessary, it is said, because very many jobs would be vacant.
Impressions are often misleading.
Facts? The unemployment rate is rising in Canada for a third month in a row.
And the unemployment rate is higher among immigrants who arrived in the past five years than among the Canadian-born.
The rate of population increase, boosted by immigration, is higher than the rate of job creation.
Now let’s look at housing.
Facts? Rents are scarce and expensive, and homes for sale are increasingly expensive.
Our colleague Michel Girard reported that in the second quarter of 2023the number of working-age people in Canada increased by 238,000.
The historic norm is 82,000 for a second quarter.
During this time, how many new housing starts have there been? 62,000.
And for rents, what do you think happens if lots of people line up in front of the landlord?
Now let’s look at Trudeau’s latest cabinet reshuffle.
Liberal MPs empty their bags anonymously in the media.
I am willing to believe that they are bitter at not having been appointed ministers, but they are also in a better position than you and me to see certain things.
Why Gary Anandasangaree becomes minister? Because the vote of the Tamil community is decisive in Scarborough, a suburb of Toronto, where the fate of the next government will be decided.
Rechie Valdez is the new Minister of Small Business. Did she do her classes on the benches of Parliament?
No, she’s a rookie, but she’s the first Canadian of Filipino origin to become a minister, and that might be decisive when her community votes, especially in Missisauga-Streetsville, also in the suburbs of Toronto.
Same thing, they say, for Ya’ara Saks, new Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, Jewish and Canadian-Israeli, elected in York-Centre, also in Toronto.
Their stock values would drop dramatically if they were called Jane Thompson or Joe Smith.
There are several other examples. Ethnicity is more important than skill.
It is ideological fanaticism coupled with calculating cynicism.
Trou
Faced with this ethno-immigrationist obsession, the Legault government first protested weakly, then took its hole.
The books tell us the story of peoples who have disappeared or who have become folklore residues.
Today’s French-speaking Quebecers are passive actors in their own drama.
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