Kanada hatte einmal eine Modelleinwanderungspolitik. Wie stellen wir es wieder her?
Need to Know: Canada once had a model immigration policy. How do we restore it?
Kanada hatte einmal eine Modelleinwanderungspolitik. Wie stellen wir es wieder her?
Need to Know: Canada once had a model immigration policy. How do we restore it?
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I can’t help but feel like these articles are a bit behind?
The amount of immigrants in the country is lowering year by year, fewer people are being let in, and the government is looking to expand its powers to deport people.
It will take time to let the system rebalance itself, but the necessary changes have largely been made
Sean Fraser, the man most responsible for demolishing Canada’s once world class immigration system, is not only still in cabinet but was pulled out of retirement and promoted by Mark Carney. That’s not a great sign. Trudeau’s past immigration ministers were not much better, but Fraser’s corporate and diploma mill reforms were catastrophic and will take years to fix. Oddly enough, Carney demoted the Minister making progress on that front.
Canada’s immigrations system has been a frog in a slowly boiling pot for some 20 years. An aggregate of generally low ability immigrants have been used to keep GDP above water since the turn of the millennia relying on increased real consumption and housing demand/sales. The huge expansion of migration post-Covid to address an ultimately transitory labour shortage boiled our frog too fast and we jumped out of the pot.
To each their own, but I don’t see the wisdom in jumping back into a boiling pot.
Conservatives in Canada increasingly sound like MAGA, with an apologist, revisionist view of the past, when they were in charge and everything was better because of it.
Immigration policy needs to be responsive to the current political economy, not Conservative ideology.
The answer is the switch from capped, points based permanent residency based immigration to a demand driven temporary immigration system.
It started ramping up under Harper and became fully unsustainable under Trudeau.
Before, a capped number of people were brought as permanent residents if they had enough points and then had to find jobs once they were here. Now people get jobs via employers hiring people outside of Canada directly and then they come as temporary foreign workers. This has completely changed the dynamics of immigration. Now it’s something businesses are relying on to undercut wages instead of a controlled way to maintain population growth and attract talent to Canada.
On top of this, the underfunding and poor management of post-secondary institutions turned the international student program into another temporary immigration pathway.
The problem with the old system is that it wasn’t nimble enough for immediate hiring needs but the benefit was that it forced businesses and governments to invest in the resident population (both citizens and immigrants who were already in Canada) instead of hiring people outside of Canada to undercut wages.
We desperately need to return to the old system with a few tweeks to enable it to be more nimble to immediate needs. All of the current temporary resident programs (including international students and seasonal agricultural workers etc) need to be scrapped. We shouldn’t go down that route again to manage labour needs.