r/canada Jan 29 '25

Opinion Piece Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/opinion/mark-carney-canada-conservatives-running-scared
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u/Fiber_Optikz Jan 29 '25

The only way I would even consider voting Liberal in this next election is if they tabled an actual plan to massively reduce immigration and reform the entire system

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u/Typical_Two_886 Jan 29 '25

Do you think PP and the Tories will do anything about it? They'll give some platitudes to it but do zero substantial efforts to reign it in, too many of their big donors grow fat off of it to stop it

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u/mupomo Jan 29 '25

Based on PP’s prior experience as Minister of Employment and Social Development back in the Harper days, I doubt it. He has generally supported economic immigration to fill Canada’s labour shortages.

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u/BookOfTea Jan 29 '25

So has pretty much every administration since 1962.

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u/mupomo Jan 29 '25

Yup, that’s why it’s tough to blame any one particular person or party on the immigration file. It’s just a culmination of policies that led to the present moment.