What Pulled Canada's Immigration Consensus Apart
Global News reports that Canada's long-held consensus on immigration has fractured, pulled apart by a rapid increase in new arrivals after the pandemic and by growing affordability pressures.
Those two forces don't point at the same policy. One is a question about who arrives and how quickly; the other is about what a household can afford once it is here. Politically, though, they tend to arrive as a single grievance, which is part of why a fracture along both lines is awkward to patch with any one measure.
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Separating them is the honest move. A shortage of housing and a surge in arrivals are two problems with two different toolkits, and bundling them makes both harder to solve.
Try telling that to a household staring at a rent notice. The two problems land in the same budget in the same month, so they get argued about as one thing whether or not the policy logic agrees.