Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during Question Period in Ottawa, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government could have acted faster on reining in immigration programs, after blaming "bad actors" for gaming the system.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a nearly seven-minute video on YouTube on Sunday in which he says the federal government could have acted faster to rein in immigration programs.
In the video, Trudeau talks about the need to increase immigration after pandemic lockdowns ended in order to boost the labour market, saying the move helped avoid a full-blown recession."Some saw that as a profit, to game the system. We saw way too many large corporations do this," Trudeau said.
In addition to a phased reduction in new permanent residents over the next two years, recent changes have made it more difficult for employers to get temporary worker permits approved.Trudeau says the goal of the government's immigration reduction is to help stabilize population growth while housing stocks catch up, and then to consider gradually increasing immigration rates once again.
"The bottom line is we have to fix our immigration, get back to the best system in the world, the one that brought my wife here as a refugee legally and lawfully, the one that brought so many people here to pursue the Canadian promise, and that's what I'm going to do as prime minister."
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