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Originally Posted by GullFoss
There's 250,000 foreign workers added last year, of which, about 85,000 low wage stream and 100,000 in agriculture.
In total there are currently 2,800,000 non-canadian permit holders in Canada: 1.3m temporary workers, 1m temporary international students (where as many as half are attending dog #### institutions and are really just low wage workers working 25 hours per week), and 0.4m asylum seekers. That's up about 1m in two years...
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The sheer numbers year after year are wild considering the situation with housing already.
https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/media-ne...2023-from-2022
Nationally,
actual 2023 housing starts were down 7% in centres of 10,000 population and over, with 223,513 units recorded, compared to 240,590 in 2022, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). This decline is primarily explained by a 25% decline in single-detached starts in 2023.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi...t-would-grant/
Economists and policy experts are expressing growing concern over a potential new federal immigration program that would immediately grant permanent residency to temporary residents who are in low-wage jobs.
International students on postgraduate work permits who have been struggling to find permanent high-skilled work and temporary foreign workers occupying low-wage jobs stand to benefit the most from the program, if it comes into fruition, economists and policy experts say.
But they argue that it is a puzzling move for a country that has had, for decades, a points-based immigration system that prioritizes individuals with the highest earnings potential.
“The reality is that permanent resident slots are fixed. So every time you prioritize a TEER 4 or TEER 5 applicant, it means somebody else at a higher skill level is not going to be admitted,” said Mikal Skuterud, an economist at the University of Waterloo who has been an outspoken critic of Ottawa’s recent immigration policies, which have led to a large uptick in the number of temporary residents in the country.