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Liberal platform: Carney pledges to cap non-permanent resident population at below 5% (www.ipolitics.ca)
submitted 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by turnip@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Proposed cap is a 5% non-permanent resident cap, and a cap of 1% annual population growth (416k). A 14% cut from last years numbers, a 53% increase over 2015.

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

That's silly. Canada needs more people, and we will probably be forced to take in people from down south soon enough, if they have a hot/violent summer. We need to build up out of the current crises, not pretend we libe on the moon.

Build up:

  • More walkable, transit oriented mixed use, dense and off market housing.
  • Fast track recognition of credentials of newly arrived professionals
  • Invest in interprovincial infrastructure: trains, renewables, smart grid, fast internet
  • A civil defence corps to prepare for climate resilience and emergencies
  • A civil service corps to rebuild and revitalize rural and indigenous communities
[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Youth unemployment in Toronto is 14%, and we havent even hit recession yet. Im assuming you mean there is a shortage of cheap wage slaves that will live 20 to a basement in a condemnable fire hazard.

But all left leaning parties are in on it now, if there was ever an indication that Canadians politics has been corrupted.

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

all left leaning parties are in on it now

You mean left leaning parties refuse to build their entire movement around using immigrants as a scapegoat for all our problems? I can scarcely believe it.

spoiler/s

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

Wait, so there is a labor shortage despite the unemployment numbers?

This is some MAGA level distrust in our institutions ability to aggregate data.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, there is a massive labour shortage in sectors such as healthcare and the skilled trades: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/transparency/committees/cimm-nov-25-2024/labour-shortages.html

Youth unemployment has to do with the particularities of students looking for temporary jobs in the services sector and the lack of training opportunities https://lmic-cimt.ca/the-state-of-youth-employment-in-canada/ https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/november-2024/youth-employment-opportunities/

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I appreciate the statistics, I clearly misunderstood the youth unemployment numbers.

Though I am still curious if its inflation that's caused the brunt of the labor shortage, given the Phillips curve.

[–] yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm not disputing the data. I'm questioning your beliefs on the cause of the problem and how we should go about solving it.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

This deep into a housing crisis and a cost of living crisis, you have to cap immigration to housing completion - natural growth rate. Otherwise you will just exacerbate the issues, and we'll never get ahead.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Or you can... Build more houses. It's not that complicated.

[–] healthetank@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Literally none of the "build more houses" they've attempted so far has succeeded on provincial, municipal, or federal levels. We have significant bottlenecks that cannot be addressed in any short period of time, so limiting the incoming strain into the system WHILE also building more houses is the only realistic path.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

That's because they keep trying to build houses whose primary objective is to be profitable for developers and/or investors. They keep building either suburban subdivisions or isolated condo towers. We need to be building to house people, not to create profit, i.e, we need to be building off market housing. And to make it work, we need to be building housing in transit oriented, mixed use walkable neighborhoods, not in car centric suburban sprawls.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago

That's not an "or". I said scale one to the other. Build as many houses as you can. It still holds true.