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The craziness of the Liberal immigration numbers…
If you read me or watch me, you know that I’ve been covering this for years. Canada’s immigration numbers got out of control under the Liberals and after a brief slowdown, they want to ramp them back up.
In the Liberal budget last week, they slid in the immigration numbers, 580,000 new permanent residents and possibly well more than 500,000 on the temporary resident side.
Michelle Rempel Garner is the Conservative critic on this issue. She knows her file like few others.
I spoke to her Friday about what is going on, enjoy the chat.
Most immigrates who are coming from these countries like India still feel that it’s a much better deal for them rather than staying where they are. So they will except the lower standards of living. It’s the Canadians here already that have worked hard to maintain a good standard of living that now are having to lower their standards of living to support these people coming in. Bottom line is that’s how the Liberals get more votes. And that is why they want more immigrants and will continue allowing this to happen.
Immigration has been used to drive up GDP, to make it appear as though we have a healthy economy.. all you need to do is bring in more people. We have recorded the largest "new citizen" number in Canadian history, just this year.. at around 600K. Increased immigration without jobs to support those numbers reduces gdp/cap = your share of the economic pie. It drives wages down - supply & demand. This in turn erodes the tax base. The standard of living declines, national and provincial debt increases. This has been ongoing since 2020. In 2014 the average indidvidual tax filer/payer paid $11K and healthcare costs per capita were $6K. In 2025 the average individual filer paid $9200 and the healthcare cost per capita came in at over $9600. Not everyone files taxes, and not everyone pays, but the healthcare cost is per capita. Based on the current numbers, healthcare alone eats up 100% of all tax individual filer/payor input (federal and provincial) and leaves a $55B gap, mostly borne by the Provinces who have to pay for the bulk of that gap. This is a decaying economic model. Between 2023 and 2026 the sm-med business sector lost 17.9% of it's employment numbers. Between 2015 and 2023 it lost 16.3% of it's number, which includes the pandemic years. In 2014 sm-med enterprises employed 70.5% of the Canadian public's private sector jobs - so now deduct the 16.3% off the 70.5% and the 17.9% of the balance and you're at around 46.6% (1-99 employees). This translates to 2.7M lost job opportunities between 2023 and 2026 while we added 1.7M more people = 4.4M. Unemployment continues to rise. Feel free to confirm - Eg see Scotiabank Economics “When 1.7 million people are added to the population while the mid-tier business sector sheds employment capacity, it creates structural unemployment and underemployment. Workers are pushed into lower-productivity, lower-wage service roles, which fails to generate the tax revenue needed to offset the per-capita healthcare demand.”