Subhead:Organizers inexplicably excluded immigration from Thursday’s English debate but included it in yesterday’s French debate.#
Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged that Canada’s immigration system is broken during the first televised debate of the general election. “The system isn’t working,” he told French-language viewers in Montreal last night.
“Our population has gone up at about 3% per year because of immigration,” said Carney. “That’s why we need to have a cap for a certain period of time.”
In October, the Liberals promised to lower permanent resident targets to 365,000 by 2027. Conservatives promised even lower targets, under 250,000.
