It's the return of flatten the curve! This time, it's in your best interest

With apologies to the warped designs of Canada's 'post-national' PM, there's no path out of historic housing and healthcare crises without bringing record levels of mass migration to heel.

It may have been Napoleon who taught us to “never interrupt your opponent when he’s making a mistake,” and yet, the eponymous subject of a mediocre Ridley Scott film never had to sit back and watch the so-called ‘economic engine’ of his nation engaged in a bayonet fight over least-remarkable per-capita GDP, against such economic powerhouses as Alabama and Mississippi.

And, let’s be honest, while the great emperor and military commander was felled by stomach cancer at the age of 51, such a diagnosis in the Canada of today would either be a) missed entirely, for reasons of being on a waiting list, or b) met with the suggestion of suicide.

Make no mistake — Canada has a people problem. A far-too-many-people-for-what-we-can-offer problem, to be exact.

Perhaps, then, it’s high time Pierre Poilievre is made to join the fray. However inconvenient that may prove for CPC polling, or efforts to grow the ‘big blue tent,’ it’s clearly time to push for action. Their digital work may be the best in the business, but Conservative messaging still deliberately side-steps the Indian Elephant in the room.

This isn’t working, and as uncomfortable as this conversation may be for some, the failing Liberal status quo can no longer cut it, not when we face institutional failures on every front, generations being left without homes and hope, and millions grow sicker by the day on wait lists each day.

The truth of the matter is this: there's no path out of Canada's duelling housing and healthcare crises without bringing our surging immigration targets back down to earth.

That’s not a deliberately dishonest spike on a David Fisman Covid model, that’s a megatonne of cheap Iabour from military-aged males. And if the Liberals have it their way, it’s “the new normal.”

Canada’s population is growing far more than the job market can handle, with sky-rocketing immigration totals now outpacing job growth, and adding to inflation.

For every 100,000 homes now built in Canada, an estimated one million new permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, and foreign students enter the country looking for housing. And that's not accounting for the one million recent immigrants that Immigration Canada has failed to account for, nor the thousands of war-time refugees being brought to Canada each month.

As countless opinion polls show even Canadians (!) demanding cuts to immigration, and with Canada’s housing market, social programs, and job market all unable to handle this influx, how much more evidence do the Liberals need before they finally acknowledge their immigration targets are too high? How sacred is this cow they’re so reticent to slaughter?

Such reckless targets aren't fair to Canadians both new and old. They aren't fair to entire generations who have been robbed of the dream of home ownership, the Canadians waiting longer than ever to see a specialist, and they aren't fair to those who came here seeking prosperity, only to be forced to live eight to an apartment and work two or three jobs to make ends meet.

The mass migration boondoggle, or The Great Post-Covid Course-Correction has been such a disaster for so many, that even the deeply servile and unserious Australia has announced they’re throwing up a pretty reasonable stop sign.

The Australian government says it will halve the migration intake within two years in an attempt to fix the country's "broken" immigration system.

It aims to slash the annual intake to 250,000 - roughly in line with pre-pandemic levels - by June 2025.

Visa rules for international students and low-skilled workers will also be tightened under the new plan.

Migration has climbed to record levels in Australia, adding pressure to housing and infrastructure woes.

Sound like a familiar problem? Or a solution that could do a lot of good for a similarly unintelligible government which sought to shut down an economy and close off a country from a respiratory pathogen which had already been circulating for months?

Woe, to be a hard-working Canadian taxpayer at times such as this. For the right to pay 45% in income taxes, be replaced on the weekly by cheaper wages from India (designed to prop-up an embarrassment of an economy made growth-less by men and women who believe in taxes to change the weather and who have worked long and hard to turn our CAD into Canadian Tire money), to never own a home, and be offered suicide by the vacuous, smiling face of Justin Trudeau, we get . . . what exactly?

The right to some bygone identity? Undeserved moral superiority? Perennial underachieving sports teams that break our hearts? (If you’ll forgive the writer this indulgence, it’s going to take a while to get over the Shohei Ohtani debacle.)

But slaughter these sacred cows we must. In place of diploma mills cheating foreign students out of two to three times the tuition costs, may we put in their place a thousand bovine universities, to lay waste to the last of Canada’s failing progressive consensus, and a made-miserable status quo.

The unfortunate irony here should be not lost on any, but what choice do we have? To truly protect and preserve Canada’s reputation as a prosperous, welcoming nation for newcomers, we’re going to have to start turning hundreds of thousands away.

Government should never be in the playing God business. Look how poorly that turned out during lockdowns and mandates. But at the very least, it’s time to leave Customs with a shorter list of names at YYZ’s markedly un-Pearly Gates.

Half as many would be a start. Half of that number, even better.

Stop me if you’ve heard something like this before, but we’ve got just two weeks years to slow the spread before Election 2025.

To save lives and livelihoods, we need to flatten this curve.