Comment:

"Ontario at the Immigration Rubicon

The attached Corriere Canadese article is compulsory reading for anyone interested in salvaging the GTA’s construction sector.

Never again can Queen’s Park hide behind Ottawa’s immigration skirt. Never again, does Ontario have to rely on hundreds of thousands of undocumented workers, including the approximate 80,000 who hold the future of housing and infrastructure in their illegal hands.  

If Atlantic Canada can save its industrial engine by demanding its constitutional right to negotiate its own federal immigration programs, then so can Ontario.

Ontario’s choice is clear:

Cross the Rubicon and negotiate federal immigration policies for the GTA’s construction sector

                                                  or

Pay the economic and political price of obscene housing prices and unbuilt infrastructure.

The time is now. There is a sectoral consensus for action.

Provincial sloth is the only impediment to building Ontario with legal trades workers.

Richard Boraks, April 17 2017