I continue to be weirded out by the unfamiliar, almost uncanny nature of what I think we can call Canada’s immigration crisis — i.e., the apparent effects on labour markets, housing, services and infrastructure of an ill-managed and virtually unprecedented deluge of humanity. (And, no, I don’t think the super-immigration of the homesteading era qualifies as a precedent.) What’s unfamiliar about this is that critiques of government immigration policy have been led, in Canada, almost exclusively by economists. There is as yet no sign of widespread populist revolt against very high immigration; it is the bean-counters, the nerdy jugglers of abstractions, who are losing their patience with Liberal heedlessness.