Poilievre: More immigrants must leave Canada than enter for next few years

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada needs fewer immigrants to come into the country than are leaving for the next couple of years, until Canada’s infrastructure and services can keep up.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Canada needs fewer immigrants to come into the country than are leaving for the next couple of years, until Canada’s infrastructure and services can keep up with the increased demand.

While in Ottawa discussing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recently released ethics disclosure, Poilievre clarified what he means when he’s previously called to limit population growth over the next couple of years.

“We have roughly the same number of people who die as are born, so all of our population growth, in fact, in the last quarter, there were more deaths than births,” Poilievre said. “What I am referring to is net migration.”

He noted that the millions of individuals whose study or work visas are set to expire in the next couple of years are set to leave, and many will.

“We need to ensure that more leave than come in over the next couple of years, while we catch up, while housing, health care and jobs can catch up,” Poilievre said. “We've had population growth of roughly a million a year under the Liberals, while we barely build 200,000 homes, our job market is stalled, and yet we are adding more people to the workforce.”