We love Canada, but Canada is in deep trouble. Here are the facts. 

• Per StatCan, in 2023, Canada had a record 1.2 million newcomers, while only started constructing 240k housing units. Rent reached a record high, affordability a record low. 
• IRCC warned in 2022, "In Canada, population growth has exceeded the growth in available housing units" and “rapid increases put pressure on health care and affordable housing”. 
• Immigrants are not a homogeneous group. High-skilled immigrants contribute massively, we need them! Low-skilled immigrants compete for entry-level jobs with our poorest & most vulnerable citizens – like youths and seniors, this limits their employment opportunities and depresses their wages. 
• In 2014, then MP Trudeau criticized the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program, “It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians”. Today, under PM Trudeau, TFWs doubled, international students have become TFWs, while wages are stagnant and real GDP-per-capita is back to 2011. 
• This year, Greater Toronto Area's employment-to-population ratio fell to 61.4%. According to the National Bank, “It is impossible for the labour market to absorb such a large number of newcomers”. 
• The Liberal government’s “housing accelerator” hopes to complete 750,000 homes in 10 years. Yet, if their immigration policy keeps pace, Canada will add 12 million newcomers in that period. RCMP reports, “Many Canadians under 35 are unlikely ever to be able to buy a place to live”. 
• The biggest housing price increases in the G7 and depressed wages have created a crisis in Canada where the quality-of-life has declined year-after-year. 

We, the undersigned citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to temporarily limit immigration to 200,000/year to allow housing and job infrastructure to catch up. Keep such measures until housing in the 10 biggest municipalities is affordable, which is housing costs less than 30% of a household’s before-tax income.