B.C. Premier David Eby says the temporary foreign worker program should "be cancelled or significantly reformed" because the province can't have an immigration system that takes young people's jobs, while filling up homeless shelters and food banks.
Immigrants taking jobs is only one half of the equation. They also need food, shelter, transportation, entertainment, etc and provide the demand that is the driver of economic growth. The reason people aren’t feeling that is because, just the same as us, the vast majority of the value created by immigrants is going to the top 0.1%. Canada’s best bet for the future would be increasing immigration even further than under Trudeau combined with redistributive economic policy and a public housing authority that doesn’t leave it to the whims of the private market to build enough housing for everyone. Canada has plenty of empty land, we should be building entire new cities.
As a counterpoint I offer this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/18/how-spains-radically-different-approach-to-migration-helped-its-economy-soar
Immigrants taking jobs is only one half of the equation. They also need food, shelter, transportation, entertainment, etc and provide the demand that is the driver of economic growth. The reason people aren’t feeling that is because, just the same as us, the vast majority of the value created by immigrants is going to the top 0.1%. Canada’s best bet for the future would be increasing immigration even further than under Trudeau combined with redistributive economic policy and a public housing authority that doesn’t leave it to the whims of the private market to build enough housing for everyone. Canada has plenty of empty land, we should be building entire new cities.