Fix Immigration to Meet Home Completions

Would you invite a few thousand friends to stay at your home, knowing you can't feed them all or accommodate them? That's kind of what Canada did, except on a much larger scale, the only developed country in the world to do this.

For years, Canada has welcomed an unprecedented millions more people a year, knowing we weren't able to build enough homes, schools, transit, hospitals, community centres and infrastructure to accommodate everyone.

Canada needs immigrants, especially those with valuable trades training or health care professionals for example. But unchecked mass immigration worsened our housing challenges. Even now, Canada's federal government is inviting foreigners to take advantage of our "public" health system despite the evident strains and long wait lists we face currently. And Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is not being transparent with the numbers of immigrants, say banking and immigration analysts. Hundreds of thousands above official target levels being permitted to stay in Canada.

Critics are now calling for more provincial control over immigration, like Quebec.

Align immigration to Canada's ~208,000 average number of new homes built each year. An April 16/25 televised leader's debate saw PM Mark Carney admit: “There are limits,” said Carney in a Blacklock's Reporter article. “We have to be human but we have to be realistic. Canada cannot accept everyone.”
A new federal report found high immigration was linked to rising home values and rents, as much as 21 and 13 per cent respectively. Canada's most recent immigration numbers show we are actually accepting millions more people over and above the official immigration target of 395,000 landed immigrants this year. These include: temporary foreign students, visitors or migrant workers in Canada. Those numbers "totaled 3,049,277, the equivalent of 18.5 percent of the private sector workforce, according to a May 1 briefing note to Immigration Minister Lena Diab, Temporary Resident Reduction.”

"The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) estimates that to restore 2019 affordability levels in the market, housing starts need to be doubled. CMHC is projecting a need for 430,000–480,000 housing starts annually. But the country is falling far short."
Labour shortages, weak productivity in residential construction, and slow permitting processes are making it harder to meet needs." - CD Howe Building Smarter, Faster: Technology and Policy Solutions for Canada’s Housing Crisis July 29, 2025