Being low skilled matters because they aren’t doctors or nurses, and tend to be fast food workers or uber drivers. Whether they were doctors in their own country is irrelevant, as this is a problem with the mass immigration policy regardless.
They also tend to require more government support than the taxes they contribute since Canada has a highly progressive tax policy. So we had capital shallowing, wages were depressed via diminished wage pressure, and now we have a failing social safety net and failing food bank system.
In April 2022, the federal government announced
changes to the TFWP that would ease hiring caps for low-wage workers, remove hiring
restrictions based on regional unemployment and extend work permits (Employment and
Social Development Canada, 2022). Additional measures were announced later in in 2022,
including a possible 18-month extension for post-graduate workers whose permit did or
would expire between September 2021 and December 2022 (Immigration, Refugees and
Citizenship Canada, 2022).
Calling anyone who disagrees with answering the Tim Horton’s lobbyists calls for cheap labor a racist is how we got here, the neo-liberals have been weaponizing language. So sure the housing shortage is caused by regressive and sprawled zoning laws, high developer taxes, greenbelt, etc, but in the end immigration should be tied to housing completions, and you’re a fool who hates poor Canadians if you disagree.
Being low skilled matters because they aren’t doctors or nurses, and tend to be fast food workers or uber drivers. Whether they were doctors in their own country is irrelevant, as this is a problem with the mass immigration policy regardless.
They also tend to require more government support than the taxes they contribute since Canada has a highly progressive tax policy. So we had capital shallowing, wages were depressed via diminished wage pressure, and now we have a failing social safety net and failing food bank system.
https://www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/sdp2025-8.pdf
Calling anyone who disagrees with answering the Tim Horton’s lobbyists calls for cheap labor a racist is how we got here, the neo-liberals have been weaponizing language. So sure the housing shortage is caused by regressive and sprawled zoning laws, high developer taxes, greenbelt, etc, but in the end immigration should be tied to housing completions, and you’re a fool who hates poor Canadians if you disagree.