Skuterud, who has been a vocal critic of the federal government’s immigration policy, says the benefits of high immigration have been exaggerated by the Liberals.
He said that starting around 2015, when the Liberal government was first elected, a narrative developed in Canada that “immigration was kind of a solution to Canada’s economic growth problems.”
While the professor says that narrative is one that people like to believe, he notes higher immigration does little when it comes to increasing living standards, as measured by real GDP per capita.
Immigration is not causing that demographic to grow that fast. The issue is we’re not dying fast either, which holds onto housing AND stresses support systems* at the same time. We have to die more. Obviously.
*That thing that idiots call “supports”