ELECTION ISSUE
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Canada Election: Where Do Candidates Stand on Immigration?
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Positions
Yves François Blanchet“Our immigration party’s policy is essentially to bring all the powers back to Quebec."Apr 10, 2025
Pierre Poilievre“I want people to come here (in) numbers that can actually be housed, employed, and cared for.”Mar 26, 2025
Maxime Bernier"There is a difference between controlled, limited immigration and mass immigration."Apr 10, 2025
Maxime Bernier“Now with mass immigration, we are importing cheap labor, and, so, that's a problem.”Apr 10, 2025
Maxime Bernier"The solution [to a declining birth rate] is easy: cut the mass immigration, do all these bold reforms, balance the budget, cut taxes."Apr 10, 2025
Pierre Poilievre“Trudeau is a weak leader who has lost control of everything from immigration to spending.”Apr 10, 2025
Pierre Poilievre“When I am Prime Minister… population growth will be below the growth in jobs, housing, and healthcare.”Aug 29, 2024
Pierre Poilievre“If you want an idea of how I would run the immigration system overall, it’s the way that it was run the 30 years prior to Trudeau being prime minister."Aug 29, 2024
Maxime Bernier"[T]he best way to keep this country is to fight mass immigration and having a moratorium on immigration."Apr 10, 2025
Mark CarneyCanada “must have a cap (on immigration) for a certain period so we can re-establish an equilibrium.”Apr 10, 2025
Jagmeet Singh“We need immigration in Canada, immigrants have built up this beautiful country."Apr 10, 2025
Maxime Bernier“Nearly one in two Canadians supports the mass deportation of illegal immigrants”Apr 10, 2025
Maxime Bernier"When you import people coming from Third World countries, your country will become a Third World country."Apr 10, 2025
Yves François Blanchet"We must continue to insist on the fact that [Trudeau's] immigration policy is extremely harmful for Quebec."Apr 10, 2025
Mark Carney“I don’t want to oversimplify, but there were failures of execution: we let too many people in as TFWs.”Mar 14, 2025
Pierre Poilievre"A Conservative government will fix our immigration system and oppose the radical project of the Century Initiative.”Apr 10, 2025
Pierre Poilievre“[Trudeau’s] radical uncontrolled immigration and (related policies) are partly to blame for joblessness, housing and health-care crises.”Apr 10, 2025
Jagmeet Singh"People come to Canada with the hope that they can build a good life... That is not happening right now.”Apr 10, 2025