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Despite what Mark Carney wants to tell the New York Times, Canada’s immigration system is not under control, and we should not be getting ready to increase numbers again.

LILLEY: Carney wants more immigration, Canada needs less Back to video

In his recent interview with the Times, Carney was discussing Canadian domestic policy in a way he rarely does with Canadians. Asked about immigration by Times opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury, Carney painted a picture of a system that was out of control under his predecessor but is functioning well again.

“There were years where the expectation would have been for example, 700,000 and it ended up 2 million,” Carney told the Times. “These are big, big overshoots.”

Carney admitted to the Times that Canada’s out-of-control immigration system put pressure on housing, education and more. He went on to discuss how his government cut back on immigration, especially foreign students and temporary foreign workers, and that now the question was how to ramp up immigration numbers again.

“Now the question starts to become: When do we resume some controlled increase in the population, which is the nature of Canada. So........

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