2.1 million temporary residents will have expired or expiring permits this year. But will they leave Canada?

[Munu]

2.1 million temporary residents will have expired or expiring permits this year. But will they leave Canada?
CBC (Canada)

Abhishek Parmar has spent more than six years making Windsor-Essex his new home. But now he is one of the 2.1 million temporary residents who may have to leave Canada this year.

“I have never even thought of leaving this place," he said. "And now, things are coming to an end. It is not a good feeling."

The 25-year-old arrived in Windsor-Essex in 2019 from India to pursue mechanical engineering technology at St. Clair College. After having spent more than $80,000 on tuition and living expenses, Parmar said he landed a job at an automotive company in LaSalle. He filed for permanent residence (PR) in 2024 with an Ontario immigration pathway.

“Then the news of tariffs hit and I was laid off,” he said. “Then I worked in another automotive company in Windsor, and again, I was laid off after a couple of months because of tariffs.”

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Is the United States disease spreading to Canada?

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1. How Canada soured on immigration

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp9z5rpgkyeo

How Canada soured on immigration
25 October 2024
Nadine Yousif and Jessica Murphy | BBC News, Toronto

For decades, Canada has cast itself as a country open to newcomers, with immigration policies tailored to boost its population, fill labour gaps and settle refugees fleeing conflict from around the world.

But in recent months, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he intends to significantly cut the number of immigrants allowed in Canada as public concern grows over inaccessible social services, high costs of living and unaffordable housing.

In the face of criticism and plummeting approval ratings, the prime minister now says that his government miscalculated, and that Canada needs to “stabilise” its population growth so that public infrastructure can keep up.

On Thursday, Trudeau and Immigration Minister Marc Miller presented their most stringent immigration cutbacks yet - a 21% reduction of permanent residents accepted into the country in 2025.

The announcement follows other cuts to Canada’s temporary resident programmes, which include temporary foreign workers and international students.

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[Munu]

2. Interesting. Thank you. n/t

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Canada has its own mythology about immigration, unrelated to any US "disease"

In Canada, high immigration numbers are (falsely) blamed for high housing prices and low availability of housing.

The truth is quite different- in Toronto and Vancouver, the two largest housing markets in Canada, there are tens of thousands of vacant existing homes and unsold new projects, the result of speculators “land banking” ( or in some cases laundering money) and the government insuring most mortgages, at no risk to the lender, driving prices way up.

Except…the housing markets in those two metropolis areas is in a severe downturn, with sales volumes down up to 50% and prices down 20+% from the 2022 peak. Rents have come down too.

Nevertheless, the mantra is “build, baby, build!”, accepting the myth that more supply equals lower prices, and reducing immigration numbers will reduce competition for housing, creating more downward pressure on housing prices.The permanent resident visa quotas were reduced from 500k/yr to about 350k/yr. The recent Carney budget had half a billion allotted to build “affordable” housing, with the impossible target of half a million units built per year.

The person in the article apparently entered Canada on a student visa, and then remained under a work visa. His chosen industry has been severely affected by tariffs, and he will now have to choose between returning to his home country or remaining illegally in Canada.

Canada doesn’t have an ICE Gestapo terrorizing its populace, but once someone is discovered to be in the country illegally, they are deported.

Meanwhile, Canada accepts more refugees than the US, and we have a tenth of the US population.