Speech (committee meeting)

{
    "time": "2025-11-04 11:35:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Pierre Fortin",
        "fr": "Pierre Fortin"
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"9017419\" data-originallang=\"fr\">It's hard to go back to 2016 to figure out where this policy came from, but it seems that the government was heavily influenced by the report of its Advisory Council on Economic Growth, which said that, if we opened the door to immigration, we would have much faster economic growth, GDP would increase faster, as would GDP per capita, and Canada's international stature would improve. We thought that Canada's ambassador to China, when he stood in front of Mr. Xi, would look more serious than if he represented a small country with only 30 million inhabitants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9017420\" data-originallang=\"fr\">However, the analysis behind the Advisory Council on Economic Growth in 2016 was flat out wrong. Unfortunately, it was poorly thought out, economically speaking. More or less from 2016 onwards, the government played a bit of a sorcerer's apprentice and caused an unprecedented explosion in migration. It was temporarily halted by the pandemic, but it continued unabated after 2021, which led to the harmful consequences we know about.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9017421\" data-originallang=\"fr\">The former prime minister himself, Mr. Trudeau, said that this immigration policy had become unsustainable. What's unfortunate is that this became apparent much too late, once a great deal of damage had been done.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"9017419\" data-originallang=\"fr\">C'est difficile de retourner en 2016 pour savoir d'o\u00f9 vient cette politique, mais il semble que le gouvernement ait \u00e9t\u00e9 grandement influenc\u00e9 par le rapport de son Conseil consultatif en mati\u00e8re de croissance \u00e9conomique, qui disait que, si on ouvrait grand la porte \u00e0 l'immigration, on aurait une croissance \u00e9conomique beaucoup plus rapide, le PIB augmenterait plus rapidement, de m\u00eame que le PIB par habitant, et la stature internationale du Canada s'am\u00e9liorerait. On se disait que l'ambassadeur du Canada en Chine, lorsqu'il allait se tenir debout devant M. Xi, aurait ainsi l'air plus s\u00e9rieux que s'il repr\u00e9sentait un petit pays comptant seulement 30 millions d'habitants.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9017420\" data-originallang=\"fr\">Or, l'analyse qu'il y avait derri\u00e8re le Conseil consultatif en mati\u00e8re de croissance \u00e9conomique en 2016 \u00e9tait carr\u00e9ment mauvaise. Malheureusement, c'\u00e9tait mal r\u00e9fl\u00e9chi sur le plan \u00e9conomique. Plus ou moins \u00e0 partir de 2016, le gouvernement a un peu jou\u00e9 \u00e0 l'apprenti sorcier et a provoqu\u00e9 une explosion migratoire sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. Celle-ci a \u00e9t\u00e9 temporairement arr\u00eat\u00e9e par la pand\u00e9mie, mais elle a continu\u00e9 de plus belle apr\u00e8s 2021, ce qui a entra\u00een\u00e9 les cons\u00e9quences n\u00e9fastes que nous connaissons.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"9017421\" data-originallang=\"fr\">L'ancien premier ministre lui-m\u00eame, M. Trudeau, a dit que cette politique d'immigration \u00e9tait maintenant insoutenable. Ce qui est malheureux, c'est qu'il s'en soit rendu compte beaucoup trop tard, une fois que beaucoup de dommages avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9s.</p>"
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    "url": "/committees/human-resources/45-1/13/pierre-fortin-5/",
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    "source_id": "13220826",
    "document_url": "/committees/human-resources/45-1/13/",
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