The areas with the largest disparity between income and ownership costs are the ones that see the highest (by a wide margin) proportion of immigrants. An over-supply of people (regionally) combined with a constrained supply of homes (again regionally) will depress wages and increase housing costs. 300,000-500,000 over a base of 35,000,000 can be absorbed into the workforce and there's more than enough land in Canada but that's not the case. We're talking about 200,000 on 6,000,000 (GTA) each year. In 4 years another Mississauga-worth of people will enter, they'll join the GTA's job market and require housing. I get it's not politically correct to speak about this fact but it's a reality. If we don't want to limit the numbers we need to figure out how to make other options appealing to those joining us. For the sake of both the existing residents and new residents.