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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I wouldn't say letting in immigrants caused the problems when choosing not to invest enough in housing, infrastructure and services is both a choice and a long term trend. We were behind in those areas for a long time even without increased levels of immigration so these were problems either way. While at the same time, if we were investing enough, we could support a lot more growth. So it isn't like those things are fixed and the only lever we control is the immigration spigot.
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The problem with that is that (with some exceptions) the federal government gets the people in but the provinces have to pay for the services and housing. On occasion, Ottawa sent some money (with a lot of boasting on how the federal government is there to help out the cheap provinces who dont want to help the immigrants...) but it is not enough.
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