They denied rapidly increasing the population had any effect on housing prices

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Did the Liberal government lie about the effects of mass immigration, or simply get it wrong? It is almost certainly a heady mix of both. Canadians were told not to notice what was happening right in front of them, and they have every reason to be angry about the impact it had on their lives, most notably on affordability or the sudden emergence of shady “career” colleges in strip malls.

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The latest batch of evidence is found in an economics paper from University of Windsor graduate student Ali Ghazizadeh Monfared. He focuses specifically on immigration from India, the largest source of immigration to this day, and the impact on housing prices in Canada.

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In his analysis, Monfared does not assume that newcomers to Canada pick cities at random. Instead, he assumes that they choose to move to places that are already doing well economically, which complicates the analysis of cause and effect as part of the spread.

To translate this work into plainer language, Monfared predicts where Indian immigrants will arrive based on where fellow Indians already lived,........

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