Yes? Land is cheap, space is available, and it borders the US.
Who it’s attractive to will change over time however.
Land ain’t cheap where most of the immigrants end up going. Canada still offers a better quality of life but that will dimminish over time if housing issue is not addressed.
What we need is further investment in tech hub towns and cities, like Halifax did. In places that don’t burn/flood seasonally and have a reliable power supply. If that got spread out, housing wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
I fully agree with you and it’s encouraging to see things like “Alberta Is calling” campaign. But, I wish the federal goverment would be more involved in spreading the immigrants around our vast land. It feels like all they do is set targets and “job done”…
The number of places that don’t burn or flood is only going to get smaller as climate change ramps up
that will [diminish] over time if housing issue is not addressed.
Housing and Benefits funding are intertwined. It’s easy to kick the temporaries out, but no country will want to kick out the tax-paying short-timers who will eventually return home LONG before they retire and start really needing our support. Cost/Benefit-wise, our declining population needs TFWs who (outside aggra) pay high taxes and need fewer services, to stay afloat, like any caring nation needs.
The nordics have really figured this out, and despite a nine year waiting list for rentals in some urban centers, they still have TFWs and can still afford to maintain infrastructure.
It will, but a lot of these immigrants are going to struggle to get housing and good jobs and some of them may even leave to greener pastures.
Canada is really attractive, but most immigrants think Canada is made up solely of Toronto and Vancouver.
It’s because the jobs are concentrated in those areas. Yes, other provinces have some work but relative to Toronto and Vancouver it’s pretty light. I got lucky and moved to Kitchener last year, but what i really wanna do is live on Vancouver Island. Some day!
Many companies are walking back their permissive remote work policies which adds a layer of uncertainty for immigrants when considering living outside of an urban centre.
To add to that, most immigrants coming through the skilled worker’s programs work in specialized professions that are heavily concentrated around major urban centers.
If you look at the cut-off points for the last two years, the trend has been really high, mostly focusing on people under 30, with high level of English/French, and master’s or PhDs.
what i really wanna do is live on Vancouver Island.
Moved away for work. The market is okay in ONE region.
Work with me to transform Ocean Falls into a Remote Work Mecca. Two mixed-use towers and we’re done.
Oh you moved to the boonies boonies haha. Love that the Wikipedia page for Ocean Falls has a photo captioned “An uncharacteristically sunny day in ocean falls”
most immigrants think Canada is made up solely of Toronto and Vancouver.
To be brutally honest, I suspect most Torontonians and Vancouverites kinda feel the same. Sometimes Ottawa.
Just wait for the warm farmable longitudes to start turning into deserts.
https://archive.ph/dYX4I - Trees -> Savannah, so it’s a similar change already.
If only we protected our forests like we want Brazil to protect its own.
As an immigrant myself, yes. It is very attractive just by the fact that Canada’s government isn’t 100% corrupt and it’s honestly very family friendly. Sure, there are problems, but they pale in comparison to a lot of other countries’.
It took me 5 months to find a good job (that wasn’t service) - so competition is tough and the initial steps are ridiculously expensive, but it’s all good. Infrastructure and systems are suffering right now, but in the next 20 years, I’m confident it will catch up.
Although global corruption is increasing, Canada is still one of the least corrupt countries in the world. According to the CPI, we are the 14th least corrupt country in the world
This makes me lose hope in the future of our world. But I guess I’m glad to live in Canada.
Coming from Uruguay, I didn’t feel a big change on that regard when coming to Canada, which I guess makes sense because we are tied on the ranking.
I think it sometimes takes interacting with people from other places in the world to realize how lucky we are in some sense.
corruption is getting worse every year
I know one political party loves to screech about this, but do you have numbers?
Is it worse than the same year where we signed FIPA into law and then, same year, a backdoor for China into our customs database? I think that was a rough year for us and our self-worth, but awesome for comedians.
