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Originally Posted by blankall

There are definitely a lot of people coming in. Net over 1,000,000 new residents per year. I doubt a huge proportion are refugees. Canada is just letting lots of people in. We have a naturally shrinking population, due to low birth rate, but the federal government has a plan to almost triple the population by the end of the century. 100,000,000 Canadian by 2100 is the goal.....they don't, however, have a plan to increase housing supply.

Canada also doesn't seem to have any focus on who they are letting in. Canada desperately needs skilled construction workers, childcare workers, healthcare workers, etc...we don't seem to be addressing that need either, and just bringing in more people to lean on those services.

Canada has decided they like the idea of 100,000,000 million Canadians. They, however, also don't like the idea of repurposing any farmland for residential use or any nature for farmland. Most cities are also very hesitant to increase density.

I'm all for immigration, in fact, as stated, Canada desperately needs many people to work in various areas of the workforce and we need more young people as birthrates are below replacement levels. There clearly needs to be more focus and planning going on though.

Back on topic, housing prices will not be going down drastically as long as these conditions exist.

The Canadian immigration points system is designed to target at need professions with fairly significant boosts though it’s been years since I have looked at it so don’t know the current state. It is a merit based system unlike the more random US system.