🚨The Liberal Party has not moderated its immigration position since Trudeau left. Pierre Poilievre: "Liberals have sent immigration out of control and now we have learned the Prime Minister cannot even keep track of the number of people here in this country. In June, he claimed the population had gone down but then statistics Canada said this month there are 300 000 more people in Canada than the Prime Minister had said. How can he tell the New York Times we need an increase in immigration when he can't even keep track of the number of people already here." François-Philippe Champagne: "The Prime Minister has taken back control of the immigration system in this country, not only we did that, we made sure we have sustainable level of immigration because we know on this side of the house that these people who come in our country chose Canada, contribute to our society, build families here, contribute to the greatness of our country." Pierre Poilievre: "Immigrants themselves are not to blame they are hard working, law abiding decent people. Who is to blame is the Liberal government that has destroyed the system. Asylum claim backlog is up 2500% since this government took office, temporary foreign worker permits up 135%, the number of temporary residents up 260%, they have lost track of 300 000 people if the Prime Minister can't even keep count of the number of people here, how can he claim we need to bring more immigration in?" Patty Hajdu: The Member opposite [Pierre Poilievre] might want to speak to his caucus about not demonizing immigration, in fact so often you hear it from members opposite [Conservatives] about how immigrants are stealing Canadians jobs, forgetting about the hard work that immigrants do, to build a life here, to contribute to our economy and in fact to build businesses, He [Poilievre] should speak to the members members of his caucus who ask for more temporary foreign workers, while ignoring the needs for sustainable immigration levels that we can manage, that help our economy grow [inaudible]." Pierre Poilievre: "If anyone should be apologizing to immigrants it's this Liberal government for completely destroying the system, and allowing corporate power brokers to use vulnerable immigrants to drive wages down and rents up. Provinces must deliver the services related to newcomers, healthcare, jobs, and housing, but the Prime Minister wants to concentrate all the power in his hands where he has let the system run out of control, why not allow Alberta, Québec and the other provinces more control so they can ensure we protect healthcare, housing, and jobs for all Canadians." Patty Hajdu: "That's exactly what we've done with the temporary foreign worker program, we have worked closely with provinces and territories to ensure flexibility are their for provinces that need short term labour availability when there is no Canadians to take those jobs [437 000 Canadian youth are looking for jobs] but what doesn't help is an opposition party that demonizes immigration, and demonizes immigrants, and makes it harder for people to get the workers they need, for people to [Inaudible] our communities and contribute to their fullest, enough is enough stop speaking out of both sides of their mouths." WUT. The Trudeau days on immigration is back, and clearly, the party that clapped forever behind @PattyHajdu agrees with it, she accused the @CPC_HQ Conservatives of being demonizing to our immigrant community even though @PierrePoilievre stated in this exchange that Its not immigrants that are the problem, but it is in fact, the broken system caused by the @liberal_party.