Labour Shortages Are Temporary and Cyclical - Immigration is Permanent; Just in Time For a Recession Canada Looks to Add 1.5 Million Permanent Residents

For context, to serve an overtaxed healthcare system, we need more people? To address an overly aggressive demand for housing, we need more people? To serve a temporary jobs shortage  we need more people permanently? Canada has an unemployment rate almost 50% higher than USA and we need more people? The only entity that needs more people are the NDPLiberals for voters.  500,000 is a nice round number, where is the science, data and evidence behind it? Strange the NDPLiberals' plan does not go beyond 2025 - I wonder why.

"...He also announced that the country’s latest immigration targets are 465,000 permanent residents in 2023, 485,000 in 2025 and 500,000 in 2025.

The numbers are higher than last year’s plan, which targeted 447,055 newcomers in 2023 and 451,000 in 2024..."

https://financialpost.com/fp-work/canada-immigration-labour-shortage