"Canada is experiencing the echo chamber effect which is magnifying the crisis in trust."

It's a double echo chamber if you ask me. The discontented masses talk about their concerns without ever being taken seriously by those in power and the elites and their political allies talk among themselves as though the remaining 75 or 80 percent of the population scarcely exists. I recall John McCallum, then the Minister of Immigration, saying as recently as last Sept. that he was getting positive feedback on significantly  increasing immigration levels (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadians-want-to-boost-immigration-mccallum-says-after-consultations/article31854179/) Later we heard that internal government polling as well as external polling suggested that support for this policy was minimal, registering as low as the single-digit range. To whom, then was McCallum listening? A more relevant question might be whose interests do these politicians think they're serving?