moorehouse: Exedus is correct. A Conservative (PC) prime minister, Mulroney, established the current mass immigration program, although some of its aspects were tweaked and some of its abuses curbed under Harper. The CPC, however, learned to play the identity politics game almost as well as the LPC during the Harper years, although it didn't work in their favour in the last federal election. The Libs just offered more to get these votes (i.e. higher immigration levels, more parents and grandparents, easier citizenship qualification rules). There's no party that advocates for the broader interests of most Canadians where immigration is concerned and this is a problem for Canadian politics going forward as political vacuums seldom remain so forever.