The solution is to de-commoditize the housing market. Block all foreign and corporate ownership of single family homes. Throw out all the speculators.

In countries with undeveloped land (such as Canada) it’s not just “build more houses” it’s “provide infrastructure and incentives to invest in towns and cities other than Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal.” Expanding the suburbs (by converting farmland in a country which has, by far, more non-arable land than it has arable) in these communities is unsustainable.

In addition to new construction, "council housing" like England did before thatcher to force competition in the rental market would do wonders on the non-ownership side of housing

This is an oversimplification.

1. While I acknowledge the overall thrust of your arguments, you're allowed to stay in the country for 30 days after ending employment with your H1b sponsor and seek new employment during that time.

2. You can blame H1b workers for lower local wages but the reality is we are part of global market. Nations cannot silo themselves to artificially boost wages for their citizens sustainably. One has to be able to compete globally, or that employer will simply outsource, and that job opportunity one feels entitled to will simply become unavailable rather than go to an H1b worker. At least the H1b worker contributes to the local economy.

3. The H1b program is absolutely exploitative and the primary victims of that exploitation are H1b workers. American corporations should extol American values and pay a fair market wage for labor independent of a workers visa status.

Finally I feel your critique is directed at the tech industry in particular. One in five family doctors in the US are on a H1b visa. A large number of these doctors work in rural practice settings. Ending the H1b program would decimate rural healthcare and there is no short term solution to that.

The H1B system is glorified slavery yes, but that doesn't mean H1B workers aren't valuable. You just gotta import them in a way that gives them human rights.

They're semi-skilled slaves, any job they can do a Canadian could do.

Not sure if this is yrue, but either way that's the thing about declining birthrates: There aren't enough Canadians to go around. Until a structural solution to that is implemented, foreign labor in all sectors is necessary to keep the Canadian economy (and every other first world economy) from retracting.