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House Hansard - 247

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 6, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 247 - Nov/6/23
Mr. Stéphane Bergeron (Montarville, BQ)
  • Nov/6/23 2:39:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, let us talk about immigration targets. I would like to quote a document that reads, “from 2026 onward, pin the annual immigration target to...500,000 immigrants...if Canada's population is around 40 million as currently projected.” Members may think that I am quoting the Liberal plan released last week, but I am not. These are the words of the Century Initiative by McKinsey. The cap on the numbers announced for 2026 is literally McKinsey's plan from the start. When will the federal government adjust the targets to match immigrant integration capacity instead of blindly following the advice of McKinsey, a private company that literally manages immigration to Canada?
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Context: House Hansard - 247 - Nov/6/23
Mr. Stéphane Bergeron (Montarville, BQ)
  • Nov/6/23 2:40:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, not only is Ottawa following McKinsey's lead, but it is doing so completely blindly. McKinsey officials themselves have confirmed that their immigration target did not take integration capacity into account. I would like to quote the former CEO, Dominic Barton, who said in committee last year that “the focus...was just on economics. It wasn't thinking about the social context. It was on productivity.” Capping immigration targets at 500,000 means blithely taking advice that ignores integration capacity. Last week, the government promised to respect that capacity. Will the government review its targets?
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Context: House Hansard - 247 - Nov/6/23
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Nov/6/23 2:41:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have never spoken to McKinsey. However, I have spoken to Canadians who want more people from abroad, who want more immigrants to come here to work in factories, to work in the fields, in areas represented by the Bloc Québécois. Clearly, we need immigration. Five hundred thousand is a reasonable target. That is for three years. It has nothing to do with what McKinsey says.
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Context: House Hansard - 247 - Nov/6/23
Mr. Stéphane Bergeron (Montarville, BQ)
  • Nov/6/23 2:41:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the only difference between Ottawa and McKinsey is that Ottawa goes faster. McKinsey predicted that the population would reach 40 million in 2026. It did so this past June. According to Statistics Canada, if the trend seen from 2022 to 2023 holds, the population will double in 25 years. It will exceed 80 million people in 2048 regardless of our integration capacity for housing, health care, education, French language training and so forth. When will this government finally understand that successful immigration is achieved by respecting integration capacity?
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Context: House Hansard - 247 - Nov/6/23
Hon. Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Lib.)
  • Nov/6/23 2:42:29 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is clear that over the past year, Canadians have asked us to do more when it comes to integration capacity. I am also hearing that we need immigration to grow our businesses. We know that there is still a labour shortage. We need to take a more surgical approach to our targets. Let us look at what we tabled this week. I think that the Bloc Québécois will be comforted by that, unless it does not like immigration. If it does not, then it should say so loud and clear.
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