Is there any significant political pressure for limiting immigration?
There's been a bit of a role reversal on immigration in Canada. It's becoming more of a conservative thing to want to increase immigration, in order to fill all these jobs. I tend to think it's more of a liberal idea now to want to slow it down because of the the housing/affordability crisis. A nurse, teacher, doctor even can't afford to live in most of Southern Ontario. Letting more and more people in is a scary thing when a person cannot currently afford to live.
