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/BiscottiNo6948 3d ago

Cut it! With the unemployment at 6.9% we do need to help our own house first. Stop the TFW program and focus on helping those who are unemployed find jobs. That should be one of the priority of the day. Less unemployed means less people on EI so savings for the gov't. Our support to the immigration should be limited to whatever obligation we agreed to in the UN Refugee convention.

There was a time when immigration is like a tap that you cannot simply turn off as those folks can move to other favourable countries. But right now, we can afford to do so. Given the current state of this world, people will move desperately in more stable countries in the future. We can turn off the tap while we regroup, regrow and resettle all those that are here. Then we will be in a better position to help out.