With its increasingly Ultra-massive Immigration Policy, Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is Doubling Down and is Guilty of Political Irresponsibility
By Rodrigue Tremblay, economist and former minister
"Economic thinking about immigration is generally quite superficial. It is a fact that in different [rich] countries, reproducible national capital is on the order of four times yearly national income. As a result, when an additional immigrant worker arrives, in order to build the necessary infrastructure (housing, hospitals, schools, universities, infrastructure of all kinds, industrial facilities, etc.), additional savings equal to four times the annual salary of this worker will be needed. If this worker arrives with a wife and three children, the additional savings required will represent, depending on the case, ten to twenty times the annual salary of this worker, which obviously represents a very heavy burden for the economy to bear." Maurice Allais (1911-2010), 1988 Nobel Prize in economics, 2002.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1st 2022, the minority liberal Trudeau government in Ottawa made his own the recommandations of the Toronto lobby Century Initiative. In fact, the Trudeau government announced its plan to increase Canada's immigration levels to allow for 500,000 new permanent immigrants annually, between now and 2025. Such a figure would represent a historical record and would exceed, proportionately, what no other democratic country has done.
In adopting such an extreme policy, the minority Liberal government of J. Trudeau deliberately underestimates the economic, social and ecological costs, which would likely result from such a move toward overpopulation.
In so doing, it is also acting in violation of a democratic principle, by committing the future of the Canadian people for decades to come, without consulting Canadians explicitly, by not holding public consultations in due form, and without holding a referendum or a general election to be fought on such a major issue. (Let us recall that in Canada, on November 21, 1988, there was a federal election specifically centered on a policy of free trade between Canada and the United Sates.)
It should be remembered that the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) obtained only 32.6 percent of the vote in the general election held on September 20, 2021. Moreover, since the participation rate in this election was only 62.9 percent, the direct popular support the LPC received from all Canadian voters was only 20.3 percent. No one can claim that the current Liberal minority government, presently in power in Ottawa, has a clear and legitimate mandate from the Canadian people to substantially upend the demographic composition of the country for decades to come.
Such an extremist policy also violates the principle of good governance, because this minority Liberal government has not tabled economic studies, or at the very least, a White Paper, to support its mass immigration policy. It prefers to rely on the narrow economic interests of private lobbies, such as those of the Century Initiative lobby of Toronto, whose objective is to triple the Canadian population by the year 2100, in order to have 100 million consumers.
Following that line, the Toronto organization expects the population of metropolitan Toronto to increase from 8.8 to 33.5 million inhabitants; that of metropolitan Montreal would swell from 4.4 to 12.2 million inhabitants; that of metropolitan Vancouver would grow from 3.3 to 11.9 million inhabitants, etc.) In such a bloated demographic context, the commercial paradise that some envisage could easily turn out to be a hell of congestion, pollution, permanent crisis in housing, an overload of public services in health, education, transportation, in addition to causing a deterioration of social cohesion and creating many other social problems.
Similarly, the minority Liberal government of J. Trudeau has provided no measure or analysis of the social, political and ecological impacts of such a radical demographic race over time.
In wishing to transform Canada, at all costs, into a country that would be a carbon copy of the United States to the North, the J. Trudeau government, unconsciously or not, may be preparing the integration of Canada to the United States—a country that is presently grappling with serious social and political problems—within a generation or two.
It is the responsibility of opposition parties in the House of Commons to oppose such an ultra-massive and improvised immigration policy by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and if needs be, to force the latter to table the studies and analyses that could justify such an extremist policy. If the government does not comply, it would be their duty to call for a vote on the issue, allowing for a general election to be called, and letting the Canadian people have the final say.
Politicians cannot brag about living in a democracy and, at the same time, let private lobbies dictate public policy.
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Sources:
1- Article in French in the Journal de Montréal, Thursday, November 3, 2022
Immigration : l'irresponsabilité politique de Trudeau
By Rodrigue Tremblay, economist and former minister
Read here: https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/11/03/immigration-lirresponsabilite-politique-de-trudeau
2- Article in French in the Journal de Québec, Thursday, November 3, 2022
By Rodrigue Tremblay, economist and former minister
Read here: https://www.journaldequebec.com/2022/11/03/immigration-lirresponsabilite-politique-de-trudeau
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