Banks such as BMO Financial and RBC fund ‘environmental’ groups, like the David Suzuki Foundation. That, coupled with political correctness (most immigrants are People of Colour) has led to self-censorship about the population issue, amongst environmentalists. The fact of the matter remains that constant population growth, mostly because of immigration, is the SOLE cause of urban sprawl, loss of wilderness and farmland, and stress to freshwater supplies. Immigration to Canada, Britain and the U.S. also exacerbates CO2 emissions (people from a warm climate move to a cold climate, hence end up using energy to stay warm).

‘Liberal’ parties (Canadian and Aussie Liberals, British Labour, U.S. Democrats) love [il]legal immigrants, because of their links to the construction and real estate sectors. Ma** immigration keeps the housing bubble permanently inflated: with a stable population, there is no need to build new housing and a**ociated infrastructure (roads, schools). The fiction that all these immigrants are needed to shore up the pension system and provide labour is refuted by the facts. Many ELDERLY immigrants enter the U.S. and Canada, as part of family reunification. In Europe, the ‘guest workers’ really are more guests than workers, with staggeringly high welfare rates. The ‘labour shortages’ in the developed world could be solved by much needed private sector and government layoffs (e.g., the gross excess of production capacity in auto factories, pointless make-work programmes like city bylaw and registration/permit bureaucracies).

If you want to tackle immigration reform, you have to go against the people who are selling out your country–the construction and lad-development sectors.