Mr. Speaker, when the new Minister of Culture was the immigration minister, he said, “I don’t see a world in which we lower [immigration targets].... Whether we revise them upwards or not is something that I have to look at. But certainly I don’t think [we will]...lower them”. Then in 2024 he made history by allowing nearly 500,000 permanent residents into the country, the highest number ever in a single year.
Today we are in a national housing crisis, emergency rooms are overflowing, and we are in a youth jobs crisis.
How does the current immigration minister feel about holding the bag for a Trudeau-era guy who just got promoted for making a big mess?