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Immigration Support Backslides in Canada on Housing Crisis
- More Canadians view there’s too much immigration, poll shows
- Trudeau’s government to set new immigration targets Wednesday
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Canada’s longest-running poll on immigration showed a sharp drop in public support for high numbers of newcomers as housing affordability and availability worsened.
Some 44% of respondents now agree with the statement “there’s too much immigration to Canada,” compared with just 27% last year, according to a survey by Environics Institute in partnership with Century Initiative. That’s up 17 percentage points, the largest annual change ever recorded since the polling began in 1977.