Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has fueled economic growth and plugged gaps in the labor market by ramping up immigration, but now new arrivals are straining public services and contributing to an overheating economy, economists say.
Depends on the immigrants. When you’ve got many industries of Canada in critical crisis that’s impacting citizens (eg healthcare and homebuilding), focusing on immigrants with skills that we need more of (eg. nurses and electricians) just makes sense. The problem with that approach is the foot-dragging from certifying bodies in giving these people a pathway to Canadian papers.
I mean, if we don’t have enough food service workers or software developers… well, then more pay for our existing ones (disclaimer: I’m a coder). That mostly impacts the economics of those industries, not public and private services Canadians desperately need.
But if we don’t have enough doctors? Everybody feels that problem very directly.
edit: Personally I’m heavily pro-immigration overall from a human rights & economics perspective (freedom of movement is a good thing! This includes non-refugees!), but when we’re in an ever-deepening crisis about housing that is seriously harming our citizens and refugees it definitely makes sense to start talking about doing it more strategically.
The problem with that approach is the foot-dragging from certifying bodies in giving these people a pathway to Canadian papers.
No, the problem is 40+ years of not expanding training to keep up with population growth.
Every single year the number of residencies is maxed out and doesn’t get increased. We are short of nurses but people with qualifying grades get rejected from nursing programs because there isn’t enough space. And where’s the call to expand schooling capacity? Fucking crickets from all sides.
You see, training people would cost money, which would mean taxing the wealthy to pay for schooling, and paying the people we train once they enter the workforce.
Immigrants we can get, by comparison, for free. And frankly, we get the win-win of depressing wages for everyone.
It bugs me because I’m largely pro-immigration, or at least I was until I saw what the wealthy use it for.
Depends on the immigrants. When you’ve got many industries of Canada in critical crisis that’s impacting citizens (eg healthcare and homebuilding), focusing on immigrants with skills that we need more of (eg. nurses and electricians) just makes sense. The problem with that approach is the foot-dragging from certifying bodies in giving these people a pathway to Canadian papers.
I mean, if we don’t have enough food service workers or software developers… well, then more pay for our existing ones (disclaimer: I’m a coder). That mostly impacts the economics of those industries, not public and private services Canadians desperately need.
But if we don’t have enough doctors? Everybody feels that problem very directly.
edit: Personally I’m heavily pro-immigration overall from a human rights & economics perspective (freedom of movement is a good thing! This includes non-refugees!), but when we’re in an ever-deepening crisis about housing that is seriously harming our citizens and refugees it definitely makes sense to start talking about doing it more strategically.
No, the problem is 40+ years of not expanding training to keep up with population growth.
Every single year the number of residencies is maxed out and doesn’t get increased. We are short of nurses but people with qualifying grades get rejected from nursing programs because there isn’t enough space. And where’s the call to expand schooling capacity? Fucking crickets from all sides.
You see, training people would cost money, which would mean taxing the wealthy to pay for schooling, and paying the people we train once they enter the workforce.
Immigrants we can get, by comparison, for free. And frankly, we get the win-win of depressing wages for everyone.
It bugs me because I’m largely pro-immigration, or at least I was until I saw what the wealthy use it for.