July 2nd, 2024 at 07:10 am

Canada’s Immigration Crisis in 2024 | IRCC Latest Updates

Canada is dealing with a multifaceted immigration challenge. Housing prices have skyrocketed, per capita income has plummeted, and a brain drain to the US has resulted from years of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s support for restricting immigration to Canada.

If Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, the millions of illegal aliens who have entered the US illegally over the past three years will travel north, while competent or semiskilled Canadians are heading south. Canada established insurmountable barriers by lowering its immigration rules.

The primary cause of Canada’s sharp population increase is foreign nationals entering the country on student visas. Holders of student visas, many of whom graduate from unaccredited institutions, are qualified for a Canadian Green Card after three years. If they have fulfilled the requirements for permanent residency, they can apply for citizenship at the end of the fourth year.

42 million people are living in Canada right now. Canada’s population rose at a rate nearly twice as fast as that of any other G7 nation between 2016 and 2021, with immigration being the main driver.

The COVID-19 epidemic caused growth to drop in 2020, but it picked back up in 2021, and from January to March of 2022, it reached its greatest level of any first quarter since 1990. Canada is preparing for a substantially bigger population boom driven by immigration.

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A government body predicted in 2022 that there will be 47.7 million people living in Canada by 2041, of which 25 million will be immigrants or the offspring of immigrants who were born in Canada, making up 52.4% of the overall population. In 2068, there could be between 44.9 million and 74.0 million people living in Canada.

The several projection scenarios suggest that Canada’s home affordability crisis is a result of over-immigration. The supply of homes is well behind the demand. According to a Canadian Press exposé, federal employees alerted government officials two years ago about the potential detrimental impact of a significant increase in immigration on housing affordability and services.

Documents obtained by the Canadian press through an access to information request revealed that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) considered but disregarded the possible effects immigration could have on the housing market, services, and economy as it set its immigration targets for 2023–2025.

In the third quarter of 2023, Canada’s population grew by over 430,000, the greatest rate of population growth in any quarter since 1957. Referring to the surge in migrant workers and students with student visas, Mike CID, an immigration policy expert and professor of economics at the University of Waterloo, stated that it seems the federal government has lost control over temporary migratory flows.

Native-born Canadians and immigrants have fled to the US as a result of unrestricted immigration and the fallout that followed in the form of rising housing costs and falling per capita income. A record 12,634 people relocated to the US in 2022—a 70% rise from 2012—while a large number of workers are departing Canada.

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Bruce Heyman, a former ambassador to Canada, stated at a national security conference on June 3 that illegal immigrants would not just wait to be deported if Trump were to win in November. Heyman stated that they will start planning their departure right away and that, unlike their US expansionist soulmates, they will head north rather than south.

Proponents in Canada like to repeat that increased immigration boosts GDP, which is accurate but misleading and not the primary factor affecting quality of life. Increased immigration naturally boosts the economy but lowers per capita income.

If economic growth is driven by population growth, nations with high immigration rates and consequently growing populations, such as Canada and Australia, should fare better than nations with relatively low immigration rates, such as Japan, whose population has decreased over the past ten years.

Canada has experienced the largest annual decline in GDP per capita among 50 industrialized economies, falling by 0.4% since 2020. Canada’s immigration crisis has demonstrated the constant foolishness and wrongness of Congress’s immigration cabal.

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The US urgently needs to reform its broken immigration laws or risk losing highly qualified workers to Canada, lamented the chair of the subcommittee on immigration and citizenship in July 2021, Zoe Lofgren. Tom McClintock, the ranking member who was being countered, stated more sensibly that Canada’s GDP growth before the pandemic was 39% less than that of the US.

Their average salary is 38% less, while their employment rate is 60% higher. In a humiliating move, Lofgren attempted to deliberately mislead the public while practicing immigration law. Three years later, to their dismay, many Canadians have fled to the US, where they are facing widespread layoffs in the IT industry. 50 companies, including Microsoft, Tesla, and Google, laid off 2,473 IT workers in April alone.

It is a sad but unavoidable fact that excessive immigration, or the excesses that plague the US and Canada, negatively impacts native-born people’s social and economic standing. Voters’ top concern is always immigration, according to US pre-election polls. Nothing stops the governments of both countries’ obsessive desire for increased immigration, even though Sovereign Canada and America are crushed beneath their weight.