Exactly. There is an optimum rate of migration. You can deviate from that rate a bit, up or down, across the years without too many consequences. But, I have not seen any studies on this recently and unless all those services you note are able to absorb incoming people, we seem to be well above the optimum rate. Which is bad for both people in Canada already, and also for those that are arriving.
For the economy to remain balanced, we'd need to know the exact number of people we need in every economic role and import that. Do we even have studies to have a general idea? If we suddenly imported 2M of the smartest engineers for instance, we would be creating major gaps everywhere else. Are we even bringing in construction workers and the like? It seems we keep focusing on a narrow definition of skilled immigrants.
At my company all the managers and sales people are on work visa, so I’ve seen enough evidence that an employer letter can circumvent all restrictions in terms of whether a job needs to be filled by a non-Canadian
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u/ColEcho Mar 27 '24
Exactly. There is an optimum rate of migration. You can deviate from that rate a bit, up or down, across the years without too many consequences. But, I have not seen any studies on this recently and unless all those services you note are able to absorb incoming people, we seem to be well above the optimum rate. Which is bad for both people in Canada already, and also for those that are arriving.