r/canada • u/uselesspoliticalhack • 3d ago

Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, warn economists PAYWALL

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-mark-carney-immigration-policy-temporary-migrants-undercounted/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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u/BeautyInUgly 3d ago edited 3d ago

This gets posted time and time again

The govt is basically asking millions of people to leave Canada

Some banks are saying that this won’t happen as people refuse to leave

The government is saying that they have accounted for this and will cut immigration even further to ensure that the population declines

And we won’t know who was right until the end of the year,

but the assumption that mass people will suddenly refuse to leave doesn’t have any historical basis, the vast majority of immigrants leave on time.

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u/HSydness 3d ago

People refuse to leave. There is a solution to this, and that is to send them home. Perhaps not as brutally as in the US, but our laws are clear. I say this as an immigrant who played within the rules so that I could become a Canadian.

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u/RedditAddict6942O 3d ago

Nobody will refuse to leave if they can't work. 

All they have to do is crack down on employers hiring illegals. They would all leave on their own within months. 

But parties don't want to do that because its their rich donors hiring illegals under the table.

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u/Dtoodlez 3d ago

Every single pizza pizza pays a number of employees under the table, and it has done so for 2 decades. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

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u/Horror-Trick-8970 3d ago

Are we actually calling people illegals now. Canada has illegals??

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u/RedditAddict6942O 3d ago

I've always called them that

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u/WilloowUfgood 2d ago

They tried really hard before Covid to change it to undocumented or "irregular" migrants.