JD Vance takes a shot at CBC and Canada's 'immigration insanity'
JD Vance has weighed in on Canadian politics, calling out the country for its “immigration insanity.”
The comments by the U.S. Vice President came in response to a post on X about Canada’s declining living standards . The original post featured a graph created by IceCap Asset Management that showed the change in GDP per person for the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.
“While I’m sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into ‘diversity is our strength, we don’t need a melting pot we have a salad bowl’ immigration insanity than Canada,” Vance said on X .
“It has the highest foreign-born share of the population in the entire G7 and its living standards have stagnated,” he continued.
And with all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame.
— JD Vance (@JDVance) November 21, 2025
The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.
In Canada, “ almost one in four people in Canada (23 per cent) are immigrants — the largest percentage in Canada in 150 years and the highest among G7 countries,” according to the 2021 census.
“In the same way that immigration has created the Canada we all enjoy today, immigration is central to our future,” the federal government says on a webpage about immigration.
The Trump administration has taken a different approach, as laid out by the American president’s policy Protecting the American People Against Invasion . U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have been ramping up efforts in an “unprecedented” way, a former acting ICE director John Sandweg told POLITICO Magazine .
Just last week, the Department of Homeland Security said hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have been deported and “over 2 million more have self-deported” due to “aggressive enforcement, streamlined deportation protocols, and the restoration of real border security.” The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has also “restored robust screening and vetting capabilities” in order to obtain a visa.
In a follow-up X post, Vance continued: “And with all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame.”
“The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you,” he said.
The two neighbouring countries have been at odds since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canadian imports and referred to Canada as the 51st state. Trade talks were briefly stalled after the Ontario government ran an anti-tariff advertisement . The heated rhetoric has cooled in recent months; however, the relationship between Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney has remained rocky.
Leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre shared the same graph about Canada’s declining living standards in a post on social media a few days before Vance.
Mark Carney is importing to Canada the same financial disaster that he caused in the UK as Bank Governor there.
— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) November 18, 2025
Wherever he shows up, inflation goes up, paycheques shrink, housing costs balloon, and living standards collapse.
That’s the cost of Carney. https://t.co/UWYsR8sV7A
“Mark Carney is importing to Canada the same financial disaster that he caused in the U.K. as Bank Governor there. Wherever he shows up, inflation goes up, paycheques shrink, housing costs balloon, and living standards collapse,” he wrote.
“That’s the cost of Carney.”
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