The Conservative Party Leader has called on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to pull his support for the minority Liberal government and trigger a federal election.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would set Canada’s immigration targets based on housing, jobs and health-care data if his party forms government after the next election, accusing the Liberals of bringing in more immigrants than the country can absorb.
Mr. Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has “destroyed” Canada’s immigration system and vowed to return to the consensus he said existed between previous Liberal and Conservative governments before the Trudeau government increased its annual targets. Canada’s population climbed by more than 1.27-million people last year and that growth was almost entirely from international migration. Canada accepted 471,771 permanent immigrants and 804,901 non-permanent residents, according to Statistics Canada data released in March.
Mr. Poilievre did not specify which housing, health and job statistics he would rely on or how they would be used. “No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power. You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year,” he states in the letter.
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