\u00a0<\/strong>stressing that \u201cslashing immigration numbers won\u2019t make housing more affordable or improve services.\u201d<\/p>\n“It will shrink our economy, worsen labour shortages, and leave workers even more vulnerable to exploitation,\u201d Hussan said in a statement, adding that Carney’s messaging equates to \u201cscapegoating.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a more fulsome immigration plan posted a day later, Immigration Minister\u00a0Lena Diab\u00a0writes that \u201cpriority\u201d will be given to temporary residents already living and settled in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis in turn will help ease some of the pressure on our infrastructure and social services,” the document said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The budget announced a \u201cone-time measure to accelerate the transition of up to 33,000 work permit holders to permanent residency in 2026 and 2027,\u201d although few details have been provided as to eligibility.<\/p>\n
Long predicts the program will \u201cbe like The Hunger Games,\u201d citing previous programs that were first-come, first-served, which she argues would be\u00a0problematic because there are\u00a01.5 million temporary workers in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose programs are the most problematic, because \u2026 it looks like people who have the fastest servers to get their applications through.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also a risk that people will stop considering Canada as a destination to study and work altogether, Long added<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are valuable employees, and if we’re not allowing them to stay in Canada, I think we’re doing our economy great harm,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cIn the budget, the government talks about attracting high-skilled people from the U.S. to come to Canada. How do you attract people to come to Canada if you’re not going to allow them a reasonable opportunity to stay in Canada?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make economic sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
In\u00a0a statement to Parliament Today, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada said that while immigration is “vital to Canada’s economic growth … higher numbers have placed pressures on our housing, infrastructure and social services.”<\/p>\n
“It’s important that our immigration system is nimble and responsive to the country\u2019s needs,” spokesperson Isabelle Dubois said. “That is why the impact of immigration on Canada\u2019s housing market is carefully considered in developing the immigration levels plan. Returning to sustainable and predictable immigration levels, along with prioritizing permanent residence for those already living in\u00a0Canada, helps ease pressure on housing by moderating population growth.”<\/p>\n
Provincial allocations set to increase<\/strong><\/p>\nThe federal government will be increasing the number of temporary workers that provinces and territories can nominate for permanent residency to 91,500 next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That\u2019s up from 55,000 in 2025.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not yet clear how those allocations will be divided, but it\u2019s bound to make a difference for provinces that had their allocations slashed by 50 per cent last year. In Ontario, for example, the number of immigrant allocations went from 21,500 nominations to 10,750.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That reduction has been blamed, in part, for causing\u00a0numerous delays for applicants<\/a>, some of whom have waited over a year to hear if they\u2019ve been accepted.<\/p>\nWhile the increase in provincial allocations is good news, Long says the backlog that\u2019s been built up will take a while to clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not like we go back to zero,\u201d she said, noting that more temporary residents have been encouraged to apply to provincial programs only to be left in limbo.<\/p>\n
The feds say the goal is to reduce Canada’s “temporary population” to less than five per cent by 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister\u00a0Mark Carney\u2019s 2025 budget outlined new immigration levels for Canada, including significant reductions in temporary resident admissions…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":375776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-375775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115542039156562798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}