LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment) basically our version of America's HB1, that plus insane amount of international students and all of that from 1 specific region in India.
The international student thing is pretty fascinating and hilarious, basically Canada been having for the longest time A LOT of international Chinese students and they had the bright idea to piss them off. They ended up detaining and/or freezing the assets, not sure of the details, of the daughter of Huawei while she was in Canada. Then in turn China got mad and told it's international students that it wasn't a good idea to go to Canadian universities. So that basically left a giant hole in expected revenues because Chinese international student pump insane amount of money in Canada, both in studies and in real estate (buy a condo for the 4 years in uni, then rent it out). In order to fill in missing Chinese students they ended up trying to replace the affluent Chinese students with not so affluent Indian students.
For a while a lot of these international students would go to legitimate universities and colleges, but eventually there was a bunch of scams. From people coming into the country as students and never enrolling, to full on organizations that are based in India that would literally milk some of these poor students for every dollar they have by selling them a dream then end up going to some literal diploma mill. Now there's a large swath of international students that have expired students visas that are protesting to stay. All of this is on the international student side of things.
While on the LMIA program, it was initially for labour shortage but then it ended up being a way for employers to suppress wages and abuse their employees. Not to even get into how certain fields are completely cornered and taken over by a single set of people. Either way shit's been crazy all around.
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The whole canadian economy is propped up by a crazy speculation inflated real estate market, largely due to huge influx ofmmigrants and foreign mone.
This sudden influx of mostly indian immigrants is also changing the cultural makeup of canadian society. And I yet to find a canadian whos happy about it, especially 1st and 2nd generation indians.
Canada is fucked in more than one way, I don't see how they'll be able to fix this. And Pollievre is a goof and people that pin their hopes on him are just as retarded as americans that pin their hopes on trump