Mr. Speaker, for years now, the Bloc Québécois has been the lone voice in Ottawa pointing out that federal immigration targets were steering us right into a wall. For years, the government has been lecturing us, saying that there is no such thing as integration capacity and that to claim otherwise amounts to immigrant-bashing, that Quebec has not exhausted its integration capacity, it is just not willing to accept immigrants.
Today, the government has finally done a spectacular about-face and dropped its immigration targets. Why did it wait until all of Canada was in a full-blown crisis before finally listening to Quebeckers?