Immigration

Issues with our current immigration policies:

Increasing immigration suppresses wages;
Increasing immigration drives up housing cost and rent;
Increasing immigration increases the burden on our social safety nets;
Increasing immigration increase Canada's carbon footprint;
Increasing immigration increases GDP but decreases GDP per capita;
A large number of immigrants are used for low-skill or unskilled work;
Poor integration of immigrants and lack of background checks, due to negligible government involvement, resulting in poor social cohesion and increased crime;
Foreign bad actors operating indiscrimantely, with little repercussion, in Canada;
Abuse of immigrants is common in many industries;
Immigrants and immigration firms playing the system;
Bakanization of certain regions in Canada;
Circumvention of our immigration process, frustrating those who are following the appropriate procedures and devaluing the entire process;
Immigration is used as a crutch to ignore Canada's poor productivity, decreasing affordability, and declining low fertility rate; and
Abuse by "irregular immigrants" claiming asylum.

What The Moderate Party of Canada would do to fix this:

Completely and immediately halt all immigration and assess the situation;
Significantly reduce immigration, in general;
Introduce immigration caps based on country of origin;
Ban birth tourism (jus soli);
Have education organizations account for the housing needs of immigrant students;
Restrict what percentage of the student body can be immigrants;
Heavily emphasize economic immigrants;
Introduce a comprehensive and mandatory immigrant integration process, which includes local community involvement, and a detailed step-by-step program, to set immigrants up for success;
Heavily modify the Temporary Foreign Worker Program such that immigration can only be used to fill high skill or rare skill shortages;
Require immigrants to be paid more than market value, if hired through TFW;
Implement significant penalties and criminal consequences for those circumventing, or aiding the circumventing of our immigration policies;
Social and cultural contract agreements with immigrants, in which violation will result in deportation;
Require those seeking asylum by US border crossing to file within the United States;
Require those seeking asylum from abroad to file within the country of departure; and
Create multiple asylum facilities that will house and feed asylum claimants until their file has been processed and a decision rendered. Asylum claimants may only travel between the facilities and the border/airport, and this transportation is provided by the government.