You can't force people to live in any particular place in Canada, so that is a non starter. We are not a command economy, but we have been emphasizing an economy that drives people to live near a few populated areas to find work and other services. The centrally planned, big city oriented model that the author seems to advocate will always drive home prices upward regardless of whether immigration is high or low.  High immigration just results in more of our economy being involved in construction, but ask yourselves: what would those construction businesses and workers do for a living otherwise? There is no obvious answer to that problem, given the general lack of growth in modern developed economies.