text: To clarify my position on immigration, I happen to be in favour of "evidence based" immigration policy that understands and addresses that our less than replacement birth rate and our high standard of living and the need for a growing domestic consumer market because we can only export so much (e.g. as a % of GDP, we export almost twice as much as the US) all point to the need for a healthy annual quota of skilled, productive,   motivated immigrants who will focus on contributing to our economy, adapting to our values, laws and culture,  and getting ahead rather than on trying to get us to adapt to them and scoring handouts.
  
  I am not in favour of cynical Liberal changes to our immigration quotas such as increasing the family reunification quota at the expense of the skilled quotas and watering down our citizenship requirements in order to grab the ethnic vote from other parties.
  
  This is not "evidence based" policy but rather is "Liberal opportunism and shameless pandering" policy.