it drives me bonkers so I'm following it semi closely. The obvious solution is the provinces stuff something like a simplification of residential zoning to 2 zones, one which lets you build everything up to some story (lets say six) and have some high lot coverage (say 80%) and a zone for everything else. Everything within the spec in the first zone gets a mandated approval in some short time period (say 2 weeks) everything in the second gets a mandated approval in a longer time but still fairly short (say 2 months). Have the list of allowed no's be very restrictive and approve everything else. Feds should phase out new CMHC lending over some reasonably long time period (say 20 years) and do a better job of matching immigration to skills shortages and limiting immigration to a smaller number outside the skills shortage areas until the shortages are addressed. Just get it done already guys!

It's easy to say "less immigration". But when faced with somebody whose choice is to immigrate or to die, are you willing to say "die"?

You're talking about asylum seekers, that's not representative of the problem. It was a matter of strict policy to target a 3%+ growth rate. That was reached with economic migrants, refugees and the others are in addition to the targets. That's not counting TFWs and students who'd go to work full-time instead of attending to their studies