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.
We need more skilled workers, but not less immigration in general. The recent program to convert H1B-holders to Canada is a step in the right direction. A big problem is that Canada’s immigration policy is notoriously lax and allows for things like diploma mills and immigrants with zero income/10 million dollar houses.
Raise (property) taxes, clamp down on education, expand education funding, and attract foreign investment in something other than our real estate industry by stimulating the startup environment. Skilled and educated people moving to Canada is good for Canadians and good for the Canadian economy. Unskilled and uneducated people moving to Canada is not.
A big component of recent US GDP/capita growth is the technology boom. Canada is severely lacking in this category, even compared to our European counterparts.
I think the right skilled workers is the answer. You do know that Canada’s immigration policy is skewed to “skilled workers” typically (outside of the family migration qualifications). I have met plenty of skilled immigrants who are under-employed working outside of their qualifications here for whatever reason. Employers typically prefer Canadian or US work experience for instance. We have a shortage in construction workers and that’s partly contributing to the housing shortage on the supply side of things.
What’s also been a LONG RUNNING problem in Canada is the lack of productivity gains which this article sort of mentions. It’s something prior governments couldn’t tackle, and Trudeau can’t seem to tackle either.
Canada’s technology industry is dominated by giants, not startups. The jobs are stagnant. Meanwhile, a decent chunk of immigrants use backdoors (e.g. diploma mills) to get in.
We need more skilled workers, but not less immigration in general. The recent program to convert H1B-holders to Canada is a step in the right direction. A big problem is that Canada’s immigration policy is notoriously lax and allows for things like diploma mills and immigrants with zero income/10 million dollar houses.
Raise (property) taxes, clamp down on education, expand education funding, and attract foreign investment in something other than our real estate industry by stimulating the startup environment. Skilled and educated people moving to Canada is good for Canadians and good for the Canadian economy. Unskilled and uneducated people moving to Canada is not.
A big component of recent US GDP/capita growth is the technology boom. Canada is severely lacking in this category, even compared to our European counterparts.
I think the right skilled workers is the answer. You do know that Canada’s immigration policy is skewed to “skilled workers” typically (outside of the family migration qualifications). I have met plenty of skilled immigrants who are under-employed working outside of their qualifications here for whatever reason. Employers typically prefer Canadian or US work experience for instance. We have a shortage in construction workers and that’s partly contributing to the housing shortage on the supply side of things.
What’s also been a LONG RUNNING problem in Canada is the lack of productivity gains which this article sort of mentions. It’s something prior governments couldn’t tackle, and Trudeau can’t seem to tackle either.
Canada’s technology industry is dominated by giants, not startups. The jobs are stagnant. Meanwhile, a decent chunk of immigrants use backdoors (e.g. diploma mills) to get in.