Peter Menzies: Future Decisions on Canada’s Immigration Levels Will Be Critically Important

Commentary When even recent immigrants think Canada has been absorbing too many immigrants, we learn at least two things. One is that there’s a good chance Canada’s immigration levels—at least those unleashed during the years when Justin Trudeau was prime minister—have been beyond the country’s ability to absorb. By that I mean the capacity to employ newcomers, house them, educate their children—particularly if they don’t speak either of Canada’s official languages—and provide them with health care and other public services. The second is that just because one thinks immigration levels have been unsustainable and need to return to more traditional levels, it doesn’t mean that view is fuelled by racism, an accusation commonly levelled by the left. The suspicion, while generally unfounded, might be understandable given the nation’s primary sources of immigration over the past 10 years....