Canada’s housing minister says the federal government isn’t ruling out changes to its ambitious immigration targets, but maintains the country should also focus on what it can do to increase housing supply when it comes to addressing current housing challenges.

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    You can have your arguments with the wind all you want. As the discontent with housing keeps growing, more and more people will reach for the obvious solution of stopping increasing the bodies to beds ratio. Whether this makes economic sense or not. Once this group reaches significant enough proportion, they’ll get pipsqueak in office and then shit’s gonna get real.

    In order to avoid this, the LPC may have to play a bit of the immigration card, in order to defuse this and be able to say - see we reduced immigration and the problem is still bad, it’s the other solution we really need, and pipsqueak’s immigration promises won’t do shit for you!

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      Why stop there? Why don’t we just get rid of everyone Canadian residents included if you’re so eager to find a non-solution.

      Withiout a skilled younger generation to support our aging population our economy will collapse, we need more people and we need better planned housing.

      Careful, you almost went mask off there

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        The NDP won’t win the next federal election.

        Either the LPC or the CPC will win it.

        CPC will cut immigration for sure and likely by a lot.

        The LPC might cut immigration if they have to. If they do, they will cut less than what the CPC would.

        Which one of the two options produces more immigration?

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          I’m struggling to find relevence in the non-sequitor here but obviously the current government favors it more than the conservatives.

          That is not the issue at hand.