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Originally Posted by Firebot
TFW is a very small subset of the overall picture.
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Yeah, the main source of growth in the temporary population comes down to 2 things:
1) Students, their families, and post-graduate work permit holders. That represents about 60% of the temporary population.
2) Ukrainian refugees, who represent about 20% of the growth in the last 3 years.
#2 is unavoidable and a necessary thing. But #1 is a result of decades of policies designed to encourage international students to come to the country to make up for underfunding post-secondary institutions. Successive governments made it easier and more attractive for international students to live and work in Canada, and as a result the number of international students in Canada doubled between the late '90s and 2008, doubled again from 2008 to 2014, doubled again from 2014 to 2021, and if left unchecked would be estimated to double yet again by 2027.
So this was a long time coming, though the government was definitely too slow to introduce caps.