Greg Wycliffe - February 12, 2026


Immigration caused the Housing Crisis


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2 minutes

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169.39444

Word count

414

Sentence count

20

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Hate speech

1

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Why did it take so long for Conservative MP Michelle Rempelpel-garner to connect the housing crisis in Canada to mass immigration? And why is it so hard to see a link between mass immigration and Canada's housing crisis?

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00:00:00.000 Why did it take the Conservative Party so long to connect the housing crisis in Canada to mass immigration?
00:00:06.760 You don't think bringing in millions of people in a very short period of time like that had no impact on housing,
00:00:13.960 even though like major economists and most Canadians lived experiences otherwise.
00:00:18.980 That was Michelle Rempel-Garner, Conservative MP, pointing out the obvious.
00:00:22.960 And in a tweet, she basically said it's bunk for anyone not to make this obvious connection.
00:00:27.920 Here's the problem, Michelle.
00:00:29.200 Well, you and the Conservative Party under Pierre Polyev did not make this connection.
00:00:35.940 You guys were bunk for years, actually.
00:00:39.120 In December 2023, Pierre Polyev posted an epic video, housing hell, all about the housing crisis.
00:00:46.100 It was 15 minutes long, went into all sorts of details and numbers,
00:00:49.740 and not really one mention of mass immigration being a cause of this problem.
00:00:57.220 I am not exaggerating.
00:00:58.640 I will give you the best good-faith interpretation of this video.
00:01:01.720 Here is a clip where it actually does allude to population growth.
00:01:05.200 The agency projects that we will be 3.5 million homes short by the year 2030,
00:01:12.740 based on our current estimates of building and population growth.
00:01:16.920 Where will those 3.5 million families live?
00:01:20.820 More importantly, why can't we build homes to house them?
00:01:25.540 Did you hear that?
00:01:26.380 the question isn't why are we welcoming so many people into the country? It's how we're going to 0.88
00:01:31.720 house all these people. And this is why I continue to be very hard on the conservative party.
00:01:37.280 They're lying to you. Do you think that they didn't know there was a connection between mass
00:01:41.680 immigration and the housing crisis back in 2023 when Pierre Polyev made that video? Of course
00:01:46.420 they did. They didn't say anything because they are deathly afraid of the CBC and what the liberal
00:01:52.540 mainstream media might say so what do we do about this we apply pressure from our side and that's
00:01:59.980 why for all the people in this photo i know some of you are good people and you make good content
00:02:04.220 but like this is why you need to be tougher on the conservative party of canada they are in a tug of
00:02:10.540 war between the cbc and you guys okay so pull harder nothing bad happens when you bad mouth them
00:02:18.940 okay? They just get upset because they actually have to do something. God forbid they actually
00:02:24.440 go to work and act like a real conservative.