Lack of Jobs + 9% Unemployment + 23,000 Invited Permanent Residents With Lowest Points Score Ever = Liberal Math

 "...Of course, any effort to beef up immigration is a bet that the economy will return to full strength and require more workers. For now, the problem is not enough jobs.

Canada’s labor market is still reeling from the pandemic, after a second wave of lockdowns reversed some of the recovery made throughout the summer and fall. More than 850,000 jobs have been lost during the pandemic, pushing up the unemployment rate to 9 per cent. Even so, Mendicino says that the country has a large skills gap and that the new permanent residents are necessary to fill those holes...."

http://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trudeau-s-immigration-pivot-spurs-jump-in-permanent-residents-1.1568701