Population policy misguided

Mass immigration a ‘toxic brew’ of political correctness, politics

Re: Immigration hiking housing Opinion, March 26

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Proponents of maintaining or even raising our annual immigration intake, in the name of achieving the elusive goal of so-called “critical mass,” cite such population expansion to be indispensable to urban growth, when in reality runaway urban growth, fuelled by a self-inflicted policy of mass-immigration, is becoming a victim of a self-defeating inflationary cycle of unaffordable housing costs and increasingly exorbitant and economically unsustainable infrastructure demands.

Canada’s recent history of mass-immigration and multiculturalism has been a history of “a toxic brew” of political correctness and all-party electoral politics. The new Liberal government’s decision to add more “mass” to mass-immigration by raising the annual intake to 300,000 certainly does little to enhance the prospect of our political parties and their leaders discussing in a balanced and informed way just how much immigration we really need in terms of the overall qualitative urban growth implications of economic, social, environmental, cultural and regional demographic concerns.

Canada’s silent majority appears condemned to remain silent on the subject of immigration, unless that silence is broken by a popular groundswell of public disaffection and anger with our lives being ruled by the self-deceptiveness of political correctness and the reality of its adverse consequences. It’s happening south of the border. Could it happen here?

E.W. BOPP Tsawwassen