you don't get it, ahmed.

i don't care about refugees. at all. what i care about is housing.

immigration is not a ballot question and will not affect my voting decisions. but, access to housing is an important election question for people living on the margins.

it is true that the housing problem already existed. but, it's also true that the existing housing problem made housing the influx of refugees next to impossible, and turned an existing problem into a full-on crisis for the native-born population. it's perhaps not the refugees' fault, but that's not a reason to stop them from flowing in - whether they're to blame for it or not, their presence is continuing to exacerbate the problem. i'm not interested in assigning blame, i'm interested in finding a solution. and, you can't deport canadians to make way for nigerians, even if i suspect that's what you'd really like to do.

so, i don't want you to launch a pr campaign to help soften the image of refugees; i want you to fix the social housing problem. and, nothing short of fixing the housing problem is going to change the perception that they're creating an unwanted strain - because it happens to be an objective fact that they actually are.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberals-hussen-immigration-matters-campaign-1.4887252