Nonsense, Professor Bates.

Without addressing immigration, Ottawa cannot effectively tackle rising household debt or the wealth gap or rampant government spending.

What is killing Canada in those areas, related to immigration, is that Canada is taking in way too many ULTRA-RICH folks from overseas, still pouring in through Quebec's investor immigrant program and buying houses in Toronto and Vancouver. And that does not include ultra-rich folks working overseas funding proxy house-owners in those cities (student children, wives, lovers, etc).

The reason so many houses in Vancouver and Toronto nowadays are selling for way, way over a million dollars a pop is because of overseas money. Many of those households claim poverty-status incomes to Ottawa, thus NOT paying in to the tax base the way a local working family would.

Your defense of Ottawa is laughable.