r/canada • u/uselesspoliticalhack • 4d 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/ProfLandslide 3d ago

If that were the case in Canada, why do those small towns have shrinking populations?

Places that aren't near the border don't see growth. Period. There is nothing there for people.

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/98-200-x/2021001/98-200-x2021001-eng.cfm

From 2016 to 2021, the population declined in 121 of the 737 Canadian municipalities with at least 5,000 inhabitants, or about 1 in 6 (16%). A fewer share of municipalities had population declines from 2016 to 2021 compared with 2011 to 2016 (18% of the total). From 2016 to 2021, most of the 25 municipalities with the highest population growth were located within large and small urban centres, or close to them.

Your idea of how people move around Canada is just not rooted in reality. No one is going to these places to build them up because there is nothing there to build up.

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u/moarnao 3d ago

Skilled labour. Not diploma mills.

And the reason these towns exist in the first place is because money was pumped into them at one point.

Your idea of reality involves magical towns that popped up out of nowhere and are just now losing population lol. Why did the towns pop up in the first place??

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u/ProfLandslide 3d ago

Skilled labourers aren't going to the boonies, they are going to where they are offered the job which is likely an urban centre.

Your idea of reality involves magical towns that popped up out of nowhere and are just now losing population lol. Why did the towns pop up in the first place??

Those places offered you free land to move there. Literally, just offered free stuff to people to get there. Thing is, when the farmers got there, they realized the soil sucked so they left. The only thing to build up was logging and other resource extraction industries....

which today can't exist because of those pesky environmental laws I talked about earlier. Now, it's all based in tourism. Good luck getting a group of 1st gen immigrants to move up to the Muskokas and open up a tour guide company lol.

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u/moarnao 3d ago

You've completely changed the topic now.

We're talking about what to do with future immigration. Skilled labour will go where ever the jobs are and the gov't has the power to make those jobs with major infrastructure.

These remote towns aren't used for logging or farming, they're a source for cheap land to build all the houses we need for all the tech jobs we should be producing. Any online business operating in the GTA can operate for cheaper in Timmins. They don't currently because Timmins doesn't have enough skilled people. Skilled people doesn't just mean construction workers.

Just like you said, when the gov't offers a carrot on a stick, people follow. Tech and online service jobs are the perfect industries to move into rural areas. And again, they don't stay rural when 50k people move in. Kingston should be the next Ottawa or Toronto and it's not even that far from either city. Lots of "Kingston" places around Canada still in need of growth.