Miller’s attack on Poilievre backfires, reminds voters of Liberal immigration record
Former immigration minister Marc Miller’s recent attack on Poilievre regarding Canada’s immigration policy backfired, exposing the Liberals’ own disastrous track record of open border policies.
Former immigration minister Marc Miller’s recent attack on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre regarding Canada’s immigration policy backfired, exposing the Liberals’ own disastrous track record of open border policies.
Miller reposted one of Poilievre’s X posts attacking a controversial federal immigration ad. Miller wrote: “This from the same Pierre Poilievre who spent months pandering to groups across the country promising visas for all and to stop deportations. You can’t make this up. There’s actual footage of him doing this if people care to look.”
Poilievre’s original post criticized Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for “spending tax dollars advertising to people overseas promising them free health care” while Canadians “can’t find a doctor or get care.”
The IRCC advertisement, which promoted Canada’s publicly funded health-care system to prospective migrants, was widely condemned as tone-deaf amid record wait times and system-wide capacity shortages. According to the Fraser Institute’s Waiting Your Turn 2024 report, the national median wait time between a referral and treatment reached 30.0 weeks, the longest since records began — an increase of 220 per cent since 1993.
The exchange encapsulated the deeper political irony of the immigration debate: a Liberal government defending its openness policies while facing the fallout of overcapacity in hospitals, housing and social services.
While Miller sought to highlight Poilievre’s earlier support for leniency toward international students and migrants facing deportation, his own record as immigration minister remains closely tied to the pressures Conservatives now seize upon.
Under his tenure, Canada’s non-permanent resident population rose to roughly seven per cent of the total population, the highest in modern history.
In October 2024, Miller announced a reduction in planned immigration levels, lowering the 2025 target from 500,000 to 395,000, with further cuts to 365,000 by 2027.
The shift was aimed to “stabilize population growth” after warnings from theBank of Canada and provincial governments about unsustainable demand forhousing and public services.
Miller is a Liberal so by today's standards when it comes to Liberals.
Incompetent
Irrelevant
An insignificant insect whose words, like most if not all Liberals is/are meaningless garbage.
It's to bad Poilievre doesn't have the know how to eject the criminals out of the parliament seat. As it is, the hoc is just a clown show. Nothing is done there, no just decisions there. Just a lot of juvenile loud mouth behavior. And desired msm news material.