Trudeau, who has served as prime minister since 2015, is facing calls from his own political party to not seek a fourth term. There are 153 Liberal members in parliament, where 20 have signed their names to a letter asking Trudeau to step down.
The letter was penned after the Liberal Party suffered election defeats in Toronto and in Montreal, and now other members are fearing their own re-election chances, according to an article by The Independent.
With growing pressure from Liberals, Trudeau apparently recognizes immigration is a sore subject hence his new plan to slash immigration from 485,000 to 395,000 in 2025, with similar cuts in 2026 and 2027, according to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Brian Rushfeldt is a longtime conservative activist and a vocal critic of the far-left Trudeau. He says nobody should fall for Trudeau’s “ploy” to try to improve his popularity.
“[Trudeau] knows that every common-sense person in Canada knows the immigration policy has destroyed this nation in housing and benefits,” he says. “They're sucking tax dollars that we don't have."
The plan to cut the immigration numbers by approximately 20%, Rushfeldt says, comes after Trudeau was going to allow a half-million new immigrants over the next two years.
Canada’s current population, 41 million, hit that number this year thanks to the country’s liberal immigration policy.
Like other Western nations, Canada is witnessing a declining fertility rate, 1.57, that is worse that Sweden, Lithuania and Switzerland.
Even with the cut in immigration, Rushfeldt tells AFN, Canadians are still struggling with a high cost of living, record housing costs, and a weak job market.
