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By Rod Nickel
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – Canada is taking into consideration a cap on the different of worldwide students allowed to are dwelling in Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller stated basically basically based on a CTV story, because the authorities faces criticism for a housing affordability disaster.
Canada depends on immigration to power its economy and encourage an growing outdated inhabitants and High Minister Justin Trudeau has been ramping up annual immigration. The housing disaster has been blamed on an type bigger in migrants and worldwide students fueling question for homes apt as inflation has slowed construction.
Miller stated in a taped interview with CTV Interrogate Length that the Liberal authorities is taking into consideration a cap on worldwide students within the indispensable and 2nd quarters this yr.
“That volume is disconcerting,” Miller is quoted by CTV as asserting, referring to the different of worldwide students in Canada. “Or no longer it’s in actual fact a system that has gotten uncontrolled.”
He did no longer impart how mighty of a discount in worldwide students the authorities is taking into consideration.
Miller’s spokesperson could well no longer be straight reached.
Legitimate data demonstrate there like been bigger than 800,000 foreign students with active visas in 2022, up from 275,000 in 2012.
The interview with Miller is scheduled to air on Sunday.
Canada is a favored destination for worldwide students because it in all fairness easy to procedure a work permit.
The Liberal authorities floated the postulate of capping the different of foreign student visas in August, nevertheless Housing Minister Sean Fraser stated then that the authorities had no longer but made a resolution of whether to pursue that choice.
Miller stated he planned to talk referring to the problem with provincial counterparts.
Trudeau’s Liberals like considered their repute plummet after bigger than eight years somewhat than industrial, with polls inserting them effectively within the assist of the official opposition Conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre, who like criticized the authorities for no longer correctly managing the housing peril.
