it's a common conservative complaint stop being sellout saying now why did he do it an old request but this time in writing it's all done with Jag me sing's support Pier PV sending a letter to NDP leader jug meet Singh whose name pev mispronounced seven times at his Thursday press conference asking him to pull support from the Liberals break the costly Coalition with Trudeau to trigger a carbon tax election and that is the ballot question PA have wants in the next election which if held today he would win handling it drives enthusiasm it gets people excited it gets people who are already either not wanting to pay it or against it riled up but the opposition leader isn't making it clear how he would govern ducking questions on the recent Railway lockout and if he'd killed a federal program providing free insulin and birth control but PV did take a position on immigration we have to have a smaller population growth we need to have a growth rate that is below the growth in housing healthare and employment what he didn't say is if smaller population growth would come at the expense of fewer permanent residents said at half a million annually for the next 2 years but if holv wants housing tied to immigration massive cuts are unavoidable last year Canada built roughly enough homes to House 377,000 people yet the population grew by 1.27 million an idea the Liberals also seem to recognize as they consider permanent residency cuts it absolutely makes sense for us to be sure that as we are welcoming new Canadians we have the homes for them the politics of permanent residency cuts the potential for reductions of family reunification admissions which accounted for nearly 100,000 newcomers in 20202 a major concern for immigrant communities Jeff that both parties want votes from all right Mackenzie gray in Ottawa thanks Mac