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Immigration officials enjoy a lull in arrivals. The BFD. Photoshop by Lushington Brady.

You know you’re in deep doo-doo when even Canada’s ruling politicians are more sensible than the clown-show running your own country.

As Australia plunges deeper into housing crisis, everyone except the elite class knows that turbo-charged mass immigration is one of the prime causes. After all, you can’t fly the equivalent of the population of Auckland into the country every few years and expect housing (let alone everything else) to keep up.

But that kind of logical thinking is beyond the mighty intellects ruling Australia right now (or beneath their greed for cheap labour).

Even the dim bulbs of the Trudeau government are finally, dimly, cottoning on.

Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser said the federal government is willing to consider imposing a cap on the number of international students allowed into the country to address a housing shortage and rising rent.

International students dwarf even the number of immigrants who lob into Canada every year (over half a million students, compared to 341,000 immigrants), so capping student numbers is a significant move towards easing demand for housing.

“The International Student Program has seen such growth and in such concentrated areas that it is really starting to put an unprecedented level of demand in some instances on the job market,” said Mr. Fraser, suggesting that the current economic conditions have caused the housing market to be affected in a more pronounced way.

Them damn Canuck Liberals are even uttering the sort of heresy that would send Australia’s chattering classes and captains of industry into fainting fits.

The minister suggested that while immigration “can be used as a tool to bring the workers that we need to build more homes,” the international student program required “some serious thinking.”

“The reality is we’ve got temporary immigration programs that were never designed to see such explosive growth in such a short period of time … whether it’s for temporary workers, international students, or tourists.”

They’re even calling out the unconscionable greed of the university sector which in Canada, like Australia, is blatantly milking foreign students as cash cows.

The minister said that there have been “stories about the exploitation of international students,” stating that he is “convinced” that there are educational institutions that “have come to exist purely to profit off the backs of vulnerable international students,” and that do not provide a quality education.

Canada hosted more than 800,000 international students last year, and Mr. Fraser, who was formerly immigration minister, suggests that some institutions have five or six times as many students enrolled as there are spaces in the building, and that these agencies continue “to pop up” across the country.

Even so, the Trudeau government remains otherwise as dementedly committed to mass immigration as the Albanese government.

The federal government plans to admit 500,000 new immigrants to Canada each year until 2025. A new report warned there will be dire consequences for housing, interest rates, social infrastructure, and the economy if the population boom continues at its current pace.

Even economists are starting to call out the immigration Ponzi scheme for what it is.

“Balancing Canada’s Pop in Population,” a report released July 26 by senior economists with Toronto Dominion Bank, says economists have been warning that Canada’s population surge is lacking balance and throwing the economy off-kilter by straining economic growth, tax revenues, and the social system.

The report also said that even if population growth is brought back to the long-term average, there will still be a nationwide shortage of approximately 150,000 homes.

The Epoch Times

If only anyone in the elite classes in Australia was capable of even thinking such shocking heresy.

Capping the tsunami of international students is very much a baby step by the Trudeau government. But it at least sure beats the crawling of the Albanese government in Australia.

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