Poilievre says Canada needs ‘more people leaving than coming’
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded to Global News to clarify last month's comments on the risks of Canada's rate of population growth.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says for the next couple of years “we need more people leaving than coming” into Canada.
On Monday, Poilievre was asked by Global News to clarify his June comments calling for “severe limits on population growth.”
“In order to fix the problem we’ve got to put very hard caps on immigration levels. We need more people leaving than coming for the next couple of years,” said Poilievre at a news conference in Ottawa. “So our country can actually catch up.”
Poilievre said this move could help housing, health care and jobs “catch up,” but he did not elaborate on how he would ensure more people leave the country.
“We’ve had population growth of roughly a million a year under the Liberals while we barely built 200,000 homes. Our job market is stalled and yet we are adding more people to the workforce,” said Poilievre.
“Our young people are facing generational highs in unemployment because the jobs are, multinational corporations are giving jobs to low wage temporary foreign workers.”
A Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) report from last month said between 430,000 and 480,000 housing units are needed annually to restore housing affordability.
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