[toasteros]

The immigration system we use today was set up by Harper. I'm an immigrant myself, having moved here on a Harper scheme, but under Trudeau.

You are absolutely right that this wasn't addressed by the current government, but it is a policy of the previous one. The only reason he alone is being blamed is because he happened to be in charge for a very long time.

It is likely to remain unaddressed satisfactorily under PP, too, since landlords benefit from immigration (especially high turnover immigration) and his primary interest is landlords and business owners.

This is a symptom of FPTP-based Westminster governments. If we had a more equitable electoral system, the blame can be more appropriately distributed and - even better - the issues can be addressed more efficiently.

Democracy NEEDS turnover to be effective.

[WorkerBee28474]

> The only reason he alone is being blamed is because he happened to be in charge for a very long time.

No, he was in charge when it got bad. A policy that doesn't harm the country one decade can harm the country the next. And it did, so the one who chose not to repeal it, and rather to make it much worse, gets blamed.

[bryanlarsen]

> the one who chose not to repeal it, and rather to make it much worse, gets blamed.

Trudeau did cut immigration and student numbers substantively, and made expensive and substantive changes to improve housing availability.

He can and should be blamed for doing so much too late, though.

[DwnVoteHoneyPot]

You're blaming Harper? Trudeau has been in office for almost a decade.