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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I think the political challenge is that any immigrants hoping to have family join them in Candaa will take any reduction as an attack on them. It's tough to say you will reduce immigration numbers without this happening, and you will lose immigrant votes for it. Which then also makes it an easy opposition attack point. "Pierre doesn't believe your family should join you in Canada".
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I don't really buy that. People campaign on reducing immigration all that time, and most polls show a plurality of Canadians think current immigration targets are too high. And it's the most tangible effect that a government could have on housing supply/demand in the short term.
So I don't think the Conservatives have any real intention of reducing immigration significantly. Which makes sense. Big business loves a healthy labor supply and more consumers, and they're the ones that drive policy for both major parties. You can even see it in their policies. "Removing gatekeepers" and forcing an arbitrary number of housing starts is just shorthand for funnelling money to the large property developers that fund the Conservatives by reducing their costs and increasing their profit margins.