We will never see a values test in Canada. 

The PM may break sundry other promises but count on him, at every fork in the road, to plump for an increase in the number of immigrants we bring in. 

Unemployment could reach record levels and houses become unaffordable in every city in Canada and he would burble on about diversity being our strength and our need to ensure healthy population growth. And in this he will be able to count on help from this paper, the Toronto Star and studies from the Conference Board of Canada and the like.

The reason is simple: he believes that immigrants will end up voting en masse for the Liberals. 

Plus from where he and fellow millionaires sit housing unaffordability and downward pressure on wages at the lower end of the pay scale are a mere abstraction that is never going to impact him or his ilk personally.

Strange, though, is it not, that with all the room there is at Rideau Hall he has not ordered that accommodation be built for recent arrivals?