Canada will change how it counts non-permanent residents, the main statistics agency said on Thursday, after an economist said the current methodology may have overlooked about a million foreign students, workers and others.

Canada will change how it counts non-permanent residents, the main statistics agency said on Thursday, after an economist said the current methodology may have overlooked about a million foreign students, workers and others.

  • RehRomano
    3·
    1 year ago

    a) this is before Toronto instituted the empty homes tax - less incentive for homeowners to rent out their empty unit

    b) this is before the explosion of rental price increases post-covid - even less incentive for homeowners to rent out their unit

    c) measuring lights on or off a couple of times a year isn’t a great proxy for assessing empty units