Poilievre says he would set immigration targets based on housing, jobs and health-care trends

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he would set Canada’s immigration targets based on housing, jobs and health-care data if his party forms government after the next election, accusing the Liberals of bringing in more immigrants than the country can absorb.

Mr. Poilievre spoke with reporters outside Parliament’s West Block Thursday, where he criticized this week’s “expensive” cabinet retreat in Halifax and called on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to pull his support for the minority Liberal government and trigger a federal election.

Liberal ministers announced this week that the government will reverse its expansion of the low-wage temporary foreign worker program and is considering whether to reduce the number of

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