Too many immigrants

Letter writer and former Vancouver council candidate Penny Noble wonders why politicians keep pushing density. The answer is simple. Density, or overcrowding, is the inevitable result of Canada’s disastrous immigration policy, and no politician has the courage to change it.

All the problems Noble refers to — traffic congestion, unaffordable housing, the ever-increasing stress on our infrastructure and social services — are directly attributable to the fact that for years Canada has been admitting an absurdly high number of immigrants: 310,000 in 2018 with plans to raise that to 350,000 by 2021.

In a more recent act of reckless folly, the federal Liberals have signed on to a global pact on migration that effectively cedes control of our borders to the United Nations. The door is now open to the kind of uncontrolled, mass migration that has already caused such terrible problems in Europe. With tens of thousands of new arrivals pouring into the Lower Mainland every year, how long will it be before there is standing room only from Point Grey to Chilliwack and we suffer a societal breakdown?

Joseph Hind, North Vancouver