P.E.I.'s new population strategy stifling hopes for permanent residency, foreign workers say : r/CanadaHousing2 - "They get a grant for hiring newcomers - our tax dollars literally pay for a chunk of their salary, to not hire Canadians. Its fucked "
"Yes that’s true , up to 75% of their wages is paid by the government! There are crazy grants for hiring newcomers https://granted.ca/grants-for-hiring-newcomers/"
Canadians are being driven abroad to live due to high costs: report - "Canada has trouble retaining new citizens, with onward migration showing an increase by 31 per cent between 2017 and 2019, according to the report published by McGill Institute for the Study of Canada... The number of naturalized Canadians deciding to leave Canada within “four to seven years of arrival” is partly due to the lack of affordability, it says. “Canada’s inflexible and unrealistic pathways towards recognizing foreign degrees … prevent immigrants from finding jobs in their chosen fields and building their careers in their new country,” the report adds... Data from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada suggest Canadians abroad are particularly concentrated in the United States, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S. and about equal to the U.K. B.C. Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, whose office commissioned the report, said Canada could do more to support citizens who are leaving the country, arguing they could boost its diplomatic, cultural and economic heft around the world. “We are a parochial country,” he said in an interview. “For all our claims about being internationalists and globalized, we’re really quite inward looking.”... The report says Canada lags behind other nations in providing support for Canadians living abroad, who are not able to vote in provincial elections and access healthcare despite paying taxes."
Meme - ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩 @kunley_drukpa: "Canada Launches Ambitious 100 Million Incels by 2100 Campaign The 100 Million Incels Century Initiative will see Canada try to reach its target by importing millions of Indian men. “They won’t just make women increasingly outnumbered, many are highly-trained Incels themselves”"
Chris Brunet on X - "In China there are 104 males for every 100 females. The mainstream media has written a million articles about this gender gap, it’s a huge problem! In Canada there are 109 young men for every 100 young women. The mainstream media has written zero articles about this gender gap."
Meme - Chris Brunet @realChrisBrunet: "It's amazing how suicidal every chart about Canadian immigration is
*massive surge, more than doubling from 2019 to 2023 to 1.2 million*
Canada - Temporary Foreign Workers on December 31st by program
Source: IRCC Open Data"
Too bad the open borders crowd don't care, when their proposal is even worse
Canada battles 130% spike in asylum seekers from Mexico, Haiti, Turkey and beyond, overloading shelters from Montreal to Vancouver in $822 MILLION crisis - "Before the surge that started around mid-2023, asylum claimants took up just 2 percent of local shelter beds, he said."
Clearly, taxes must be raised to welcome the whole world
Meme - UBC Grads: "My beautiful friend Anthony took his own life after his boss replaced him with an international student working fulltime. Anthony spent hours each day applying for jobs for six months after graduation before finally landing this job. He sent about 300 applications and only heard back from a handful. Anthony later learned from friends who worked at the companies that rejected him that those companies only post job ads as a requirement to hire temporary foreign workers. Anthony's couldn't take it anymore when he was asked to train his replacement. Rest in peace my friend."
The Weekly Wrap: The Liberals abandon the centre - "a report by Scotiabank’s economics team on immigration policy. The paper, which weighs into the recent debate about the effects of heightened immigration levels on productivity and GDP per capita, finds that the Trudeau government’s massive increase in annual immigration intake (both permanent and temporary streams) has reached a level that’s now harmful to Canada’s productivity. In fact, its authors estimate that immigration-driven population growth is responsible for about two-thirds of productivity declines since 2021. They conclude that the “productivity-neutral” pace of population growth is actually closer to about 350,000 per year. The report has rightly been interpreted as a criticism of the Trudeau government’s “let-it-rip” immigration policy and a validation of the Harper government’s still ambitious yet more pragmatic record. Annual permanent resident immigration levels averaged about 255,000 during the Harper years, which is barely half of the current target and a far cry from more than 1 million immigrants who entered the country last year."
The libertarians are going to be very upset
Temporary immigration programs are pushing down wage growth in Canada, economists say - "Temporary immigration pathways are putting downward pressure on wage growth in Canada, but aren’t responsible for the country’s stagnating GDP per capita growth rate or the productivity rate, economists say. While immigration does not normally suppress wages, economists agreed, temporary foreign workers entering the country over the last 18 months arrived when Canadian job vacancies were peculiarly high due to the pandemic... Most temporary foreign workers are employed in the accommodation and agricultural industries, which are the lowest-wage sectors of the economy, according to Statistics Canada. Employers don’t have an incentive to improve working conditions or raise wages when they have employees who can’t say “no” out of fear of workplace reprisals and are unlikely to find other employment, Block explained... Until the middle of 2022, there was little evidence that immigration of any kind kept wages down, according to Pedro Antunes, chief economist at the Conference Board of Canada. Antunes said temporary foreign worker programs have been successful at filling the enormous number of job vacancies after the pandemic, but the historic increase in immigration to fill those empty positions likely impacted established Canadians’ wages... a high number of job vacancies don’t always equate to a labour shortage, according to Angella MacEwan, the senior economist at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). MacEwan said many long-term care employees aren’t being offered enough hours to make ends meet, and shifts that could go to employees with more stable status in Canada are instead being outsourced to temporary foreign workers... Both MacEwan and Block argued lobbying from the business community has driven up the use of the Temporary Foreign Worker program to put downward pressure on wages, while Antunes declined to comment on lobbying activity... as the country’s population increased, Canada’s GDP per capita fell by 1.7 per cent. A July 2023 Reuters article quoted economist David Rosenberg as saying Canada’s immigration boom had created a “mirage of economic prosperity” in GDP growth. Economists who spoke to New Canadian Media said Canada’s slowing GDP per capita growth rate was not a reflection of immigration policies but gave a variety of reasons for the weaker indicator. Immigrants take time to fully integrate into the economy, which explains rising GDP and slowing GDP per capita, explained Block, while temporary immigrants may never integrate into the economy. Higher interest rates hitting business revenue is the cause for stalling GDP per capita figures, argued Antunes. A low productivity rate driven by a lack of investment in innovation was another factor, said Antunes. MacEwan suggested the price of oil and other commodities like potash were behind the GDP per capita numbers."
I don't get it : CanadaHousing2 - "From what I've been seeing half the time it's people that identify as South Asian that came here years ago via normal immigration channels that are shit talking the new South Asians that they are accusing of using student visas as a hole in the fence."
Kirk Lubimov on X - "Canada now has essentially job vacancies numbers for half of the of the people we mass immigrate - just in one year. In otherwords, we mass immigrating people into unemployment. Canada just doesn't create enough jobs and there is a skill gap. There now 1.8 unemployed people for every job vacancy. Job vacancies fell by 25k in Q4 2023 to 678k - 463k of them are full time. 9/10 broad occupation groups saw vacancy drops except in education, law, community and public sector. Canada's mass immigration policy is building up our own social unrest and poverty."
Canada population is set to hit a yet ANOTHER milestone next month - "In June last year, Canada made headlines after its population hit the 40 million mark. Less than a year later, it’s poised to hit another milestone. Statistics Canada’s population clock tracks the “real-time changes to the size of the Canadian population and the provinces and territories.” The tracker measures the changes by taking into account the rate of births, deaths, immigrants, emigrants, non-permanent residents, and inter-provincial migrants. As of March 18, the country’s population is at 40,961,644, with a population change of 1,110 since midnight. Based on the rate of these changes, Canada should reach the 41 million count sometime in April."
Some Conestoga students seeking asylum in Canada - "In cases where these students are not able to stay after their studies are over, some have been exploring other avenues."
Clearly Canada must take them all in because we must believe refugees and it's karma for invading India
Canada’s leaders must take the dangers of diaspora politics seriously - "The disorder we have witnessed in Canadian cities in recent months, which just this weekend succeeded in shutting down an event between two G7 leaders at the Art Gallery of Ontario, comes on the heels of a major break in Canada-India relations following the killing of Sikh nationalist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, as well as the fiasco surrounding the invitation of former Waffen SS member Yaroslav Hunka to Parliament... our leaders need to repurpose our public discourse about multiculturalism toward highlighting the ties that bind Canadians together, rather than focusing on the ways in which we are diverse and different from one another. Continual intimidation, harassment, and violence against Jewish businesses, neighbourhoods, and community institutions since October 7th has been unnerving and dangerous. I certainly never thought I would live to see the Avenue/Wilson intersection in Toronto—where I spent the first five years of my life—labelled a “Zionist-infested area,” nor to witness a crowd outside the Montreal Holocaust Museum earlier this week cheer as those inside the building were called “rats.”... in 1981, Jews still outnumbered Muslims nearly four-to-one in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA). Yet as of the 2021 census, Muslims accounted for more than 10 percent of the Toronto CMA, now outnumbering Jews by roughly the same four-to-one margin... Leaders from all parties need to get behind a unifying message, rooted in the founding wisdom of our constitutional order: Canada stands for peace, order, and good government. That means that acts of intimidation and harassment will not be tolerated. But it also means we cannot allow conflicts in distant lands to divide us and shape who we are as Canadians. This domestic message will resonate even more strongly if accompanied by an adjustment in the way we conduct our foreign policy. Research I have conducted for the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy shows how our political class has difficulty articulating a common idea of Canada’s national interests, beyond platitudes such as outdated conceptions of our “role in the world” as a “middle power” or our desire to be “seen to be a good ally.” Unable to focus resources and attention on clearly defined core interests, our leaders all too often gear their statements toward domestic audiences for political gain. The current Israel-Hamas war is a case in point: given that Canada’s ability to influence the conflict is negligible, foreign policy statements are used to satisfy demands from this or that constituency. Diversity management takes the place of diplomacy. A new discourse focused on what does or does not constitute a core national interest would encourage ethnocultural communities to think about foreign policy not as Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, or Ukrainian Canadians, but rather simply as Canadians. Owing to Canada’s location on the map, challenges in the Arctic, Asia, and Europe must rank far ahead of the Middle East when it comes to allocating limited resources in the pursuit of our interests. By the same token, we should oppose antisemitism not just as Jewish Canadians, but because it offends who we are as Canadians: a civilized country based on peace, order, and good government for all."
When you have a "post-national state", people will just import foreign nationalism. Which is part of the reason the left love getting excited about promoting foreign countries so much, since they hate their own
Toronto landlord seeking fourth renter for one room with two bunkbeds - "“Large and beautiful bedroom with attached den, bed, pillows and mattresses for four occupants,” the Kijiji listing reads. So far, three of the bunk beds have been spoken for and there’s “only one left” — as long as you’re female, Keralite (a native of the southwestern Indian state of Kerala), non-vegetarian and preferably Christian... “And it seems to me based on the photos that there’s another bedroom with more occupants…. Who wants to take a guess how many there are in total?”... They also mentioned the apartment’s proximity to 10 colleges."
No one cares when it's non white people discriminating by race
If you have any concerns, you're a racist xenophobe
Gig work now main job for nearly a million Canadians - "Nearly a million Canadians are taking on gig work as their main job, a new Statistics Canada report has found. Some 871,000 Canadians said they did gig work as their primary job in the fourth quarter of 2022, the latest data available. At the same time, an additional 1.5 million people on average reported having done some freelancing, paid gigs or short-term jobs or tasks at some point during the previous 12 months... Gig work in Canada is continuing to expand, said Stephanie Ross, a labour studies professor at McMaster University, and it’s a good indicator that the labour market isn’t “able to provide people with the kinds of jobs that historically have allowed them to have stable, full-time, full-year, employment.” More than 300,000 full-time jobs in Ontario have disappeared since July... “It also signals that people are dissatisfied with the extent to which those kinds of (full-time) jobs allow people the flexibility to manage work and other personal responsibilities,” Ross added... The share of gig workers among all workers rose to 8.2 per cent in 2016 from 5.5 per cent in 2005, according to Statistics Canada. In 2020, this jumped to approximately 10 per cent of the total labour force. The rising number of gig workers is also driven by newcomers seeking quick income. For example, the workforce for app-based ride-hailing and delivery companies like Uber, DoorDash and Lyft grew 46 per cent in 2023 to 365,000 — up from 250,000 in 2022, according to the most recent Statistics Canada labour force survey. But landed immigrants accounted for nearly 60 per cent of the 365,000 people who provided either personal transport or delivery services through an app or platform in 2023, compared with 53 per cent the prior year. “This is a racialized labour force where there is a higher proportion of people who are either immigrants or racialized people, who are experiencing discrimination or various barriers to entry into the labour market that offers full-time, full-year, stable employment,” Ross said. “And so in order for them to access a survival strategy, the gig economy fills that gap.”"
Meme - "What They Really Got Going On. This Is Toronto Ontario Btw"
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Cape Breton student calls for university to cap international enrolment, help more - "Vrinda Khatore is not living the life she thought she'd be in Sydney while attending Cape Breton University. She thought she'd be living in a socialist country, experiencing what health care is like through education, in a safe apartment with a job to help pay her expenses. This includes the $30,000 education loan she took out in India to study here. For the past eight months, the East Indian woman has been studying health management as part of the university's health science post-baccalaureate program for eight months. For the past two, she's been jobless after her call centre job ended on Nov. 8, unbeknownst to staff... In the video, Khatore shares her story, calls for a cap on international students until the community infrastructure can handle it and says CBU is exploiting international students, thinking more of capital gain than a person's living conditions. Many people have commented and Khatore hopes it will instigate change. "The students are suffering here," said Khatore, housing being one of the biggest shortages. "You know, so many students are failing their courses… (because of) mental health issues. Undiagnosed mental health issues.""
International student begs Cape Breton University to stop accepting more international students because of "overpopulation." Says there are no buses, no housing and no jobs : CanadaHousing2
Pulling up the ladder behind her!
Todd: Population growth squeezing Canada’s young like never before - "Wondering why rents in Canada are breaking records? The Bank of Montreal’s chief economist, Douglas Porter, says there is “zero mystery.”... It’s fuelled almost entirely by Ottawa’s immigration policy... for the first time millennials, people between ages 28 and 43, now outnumber baby boomers, the postwar generation now in their 60s and 70s... Canada’s millennial generation has been “struggling to get launched onto the pathway to something approximating the middle-class life — leaving the nest, partnering, acquiring family suitable housing and having children.” An economist who was president of the B.C. Institute of Technology before becoming deputy minister to former NDP premier John Horgan, Wright provided data showing more Canadian young adults are living with a parent. Fewer own homes. And the birthrate has dropped to 1.3 children per woman. In light of this month’s StatCan report on millennials, Wright questioned politicians’ decades-long push to offset baby boomers leaving the workforce by bringing in more working-age people through international migration, at a rate now five times higher than other Western democracies. Indeed, Wright says the StatCan report, which received wide media attention, actually plays down the size of the country’s millennium generation. It misses, he says, how Canada’s baby boom contingent was surpassed by millennials long ago... “If you actually compare apples to apples (equal 20-year spans), millennials exceeded the baby boom generation some time ago — in 2013,” Wright said. But that hasn’t stopped politicians and business people from constantly raising the spectre of aging baby boomers, with Ottawa making it the primary rationale for “supercharged levels of immigration,” Wright said. “Sometimes I talk about the ‘baby boom derangement syndrome.’ So much of public policy has been driven by this apprehended catastrophe of the baby boom retiring and then putting great demands on the public purse,” he said. The trouble is it’s creating a population bubble of people under 40. “We should not be at all surprised that all of a sudden housing markets are under great stress now. It’s absurd that politicians pretend to be surprised by it,” Wright said, pointing to a February report revealing then-Immigration Minister Sean Fraser had been warned that Canada was accepting newcomers at a far higher rate than houses could be built. Early last year Wright predicted this would affect public opinion about immigration, and that has been borne out. “What Ottawa is doing is making it damn difficult for young people to get a proper start in life,” Wright said. “That’s primarily in the housing market, but in the labour market as well, because you’re competing with a lot of people your age.”... Last year more than one million foreign students were in Canada, three times the number when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was first elected. (B.C. had 176,000 in post-secondary schools). While wages in some sectors are up, gross domestic product per capita has been flat for six years. Skuterud suggested low-skill workers, whose wages are actually declining, could be the most impacted by the surge of new residents. In regard to life choices, Wright also wonders how much the country’s housing crunch — including the prospect of “living in a 700-square-foot hamster cage” — might be a significant factor behind why some young Canadians aren’t having larger families. Cardus, a think-tank, commissioned the Angus Reid Institute to conduct a poll last year of 2,700 women in Canada ages 18 to 44. It found nearly half have fewer children than they desire. Canadian women intend to have, on average, 1.85 children per woman, but desire 2.2 children. Given such personal strains, especially for millennials and Gen Z, the National Bank’s economists have declared Canada is caught in a “population trap” in which the population is growing faster than can be absorbed by the economy, society and infrastructure. With so many facing stagnant wages and housing distress, National Bank economists Stéfane Marion and Alexandra Ducharme said: “At this point we believe that our country’s annual total population growth should not exceed 300,000 to 500,000.”"
The Liberals destroyed the future of young Canadians by falsely claiming that there was not enough young people to replace retiring boomers when that was not the case, and ramping up mass immigration. : CanadaHousing2
Rising numbers of new immigrants hate it here, want to go home - "Amid statistics showing higher rates of outmigration and newcomer dissatisfaction, social media and immigrant forums are increasingly filled with warnings for foreigners to stay away. This week, the website BlogTO published a series of interviews with recent immigrants who are desperate to leave. “There is no living in this country; it’s just surviving,” said 39-year-old Raghunath Poshala. A Mexican immigrant told them he no longer sees Canada as a developed country. “I realized that Canada is a very poor country, too; it’s just that everyone is in debt,” he said. Late last year, Bloomberg News interviewed a Ukrainian refugee who fled Russian shelling and missile attacks — only to find a Canada that was practically unliveable. “I’m tired all the time now,” said Oleksii Martynenko, 44. Around the same time, CTV interviewed Indian immigrant Emilson Jose. “No matter how much you make, your take home pay is not even keeping up the expense. Families barely keep their head above water,” said Jose. “After 10 years of hardship, I am now a proud Canadian citizen who doesn’t want to live in Canada anymore.” Last year, the Conference Board of Canada published The Leaky Bucket, a report finding that the rates of recent immigrants deciding to leave Canada were on the rise. It “suggests immigrants may not be seeing the benefits of moving to Canada,” the report says. The reason for the dissatisfaction is simple: Amid spiking prices and shortages in everything from housing to health care, it’s immigrants that are being hit hardest... while much of the recent immigration influx was driven by stated fears of a labour shortage, newcomers are often encountering a job market that is utterly overwhelmed by applicants. It’s now a semi-regular phenomenon across Southern Ontario that a routine job fair for entry-level positions will attract blocks-long lines of prospective applicants. In December, a job fair at the Save Max Sports Centre in Brampton drew so many job-seekers that videos posted to Instagram showed the entire plaza in front of the building filled with queues. There exists an entire online ecosystem of bloggers, TikTokers and YouTubers providing advice for new Canadians or prospective immigrants. Of late, many of them are telling their audience not to come — or at least warning that it’s not what it seems. Febby Lyan, a Singaporean immigrant to Canada, garnered nearly 400,000 views on a recent video about “why people are leaving Canada.” Over 20 minutes, she detailed rising homelessness, rising crime, limited job opportunities, worsening affordability and even a few qualms with the political situation. Lyan noted that the recently passed Online News Act meant that Canadians couldn’t access news through Facebook. The YouTuber “Angry Canadian Immigrant” wrote an entire e-book accusing Canada of running an immigration system designed to “scam” newcomers. “After three years in Canada I see it as one of the most overrated countries in the world; very high taxes, enormous cost of life, very few well-paying jobs with insane competition for them … no access to health care whatsoever,” he says in one of his most popular videos, Top 5 reasons not to move to Canada. The notion of Canada as an “immigrant trap” has even started to make the foreign press. The Indian news channel WION broadcast a segment in mid-February titled Canada: The Dream that Became a Nightmare... All of this has actually happened before. The last time Canada dialled up immigration to record-breaking levels, it was similarly accompanied by an undercurrent of disappointment and outmigration. In the years before the First World War, Canada took in as many as 400,000 immigrants annually in a frantic bid to homestead the prairies. Often, these newcomers had been lured by rosy advertised images of Canada as a temperate land of plenty."
Clearly, if you don't want to bring in even more immigrants, you hate immigrants and blame them for your failures in life
Opinion: The other immigration problem: Too much talent is leaving Canada - The Globe and Mail - "Tens of thousands of people leave Canada every year, many of them talented and entrepreneurial people we will miss. Importantly, a significant fraction are themselves immigrants, which may mean we are missing an opportunity to boost Canada’s long-term growth and prosperity... Several characteristics are closely associated with emigration, including admission category, country of birth, age at landing, and having no children. Investors and entrepreneurs emerge at the forefront of emigration; they are more likely to seek opportunities elsewhere. Emigration likelihood is also, unfortunately, correlated with education. Highly educated immigrants, particularly those admitted in economic categories and including former international students, are likelier to leave again... The Statistics Canada paper also draws attention to the challenges immigrants encounter, extending beyond economic integration to encompass factors such as family dynamics and considerations, cultural adaptation, and the political, economic, or cultural conditions of their country of origin. Furthermore, the study highlights the phenomenon of transnationalism, where immigrants maintain ties in multiple countries. Some immigrants may plan to emigrate from Canada as part of a strategic migration approach. Not all these circumstances are easy for Canadian policy makers to address. Other circumstances, however, are well within Canadian policy makers’ scope. Canadian living standards are stagnating. Weak capital investment is hurting productivity and incomes. Canadian businesses tend to stay small. Canadian governments rely relatively heavily on personal income taxes, with high rates that apply at relatively low income levels – not an approach that signals to talented people that Canada is the place for them. Tax reform and other changes that mitigated these problems would make Canada more attractive to everyone – immigrants and Canadian-born alike. Paying attention to which immigrants are likeliest to leave, and why, can help Canada improve its ability to attract and retain talent. We may be able to refine our selection criteria to raise the proportion of talented, entrepreneurial immigrants who stay in Canada. We can make it easier for immigrants with specialized skills, in health care for example, to work in their professions. Moreover, addressing factors such as high taxes and regulations that stifle entrepreneurship can help Canada retain more immigrants and retain more Canadian-born talent – a win for everyone."
