Carney to unveil immigration plan as business presses for more workers
Prime Minister Mark Carney faces competing pressures: business groups demanding higher immigration levels to fill labor gaps, and political risk from relaxing curbs.
What to know
- Business groups are pressing Carney to raise immigration levels to fill Canadian labor gaps.
- Carney is preparing to release an immigration levels plan in response to these pressures.
- Loosening immigration restrictions poses political risk alongside economic benefits.
The dispute Whether business pressure for higher immigration reflects genuine labor gaps or corporate unwillingness to invest in productivity and wages. · positions read across 6 posts and comments
Businesses use immigration demands to avoid investing in worker productivity and training.
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“That sounds like all Canadian businesses to be fair. I haven't worked for one that made substantial investments to increase productivity or their worker's output.”
IcyMaybe7594 · reddit ↗
Increased immigration will harm Canadian workers, especially white-collar employees, amid housing and economic pressures.
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“Already is a disaster, but that policy change sounds like one final blow to finish off Canadians in white collar fields.”
IcyMaybe7594 · reddit ↗
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Carney to release immigration levels plan
Carney is preparing to release a plan on Canada's immigration levels in response to business pressure for expanded worker access.
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1 outlet first by Bloomberg Politics, 8d ago · read ↗
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Canada faces millions of upcoming retirements (such as 5 million retirements by 2030) as the Baby Boomer generation leaves the workforce. With a low national birth rate, there are fewer domestic workers entering the economy to replace them. Immigrants drive nearly all of Canada's labor force growth. Without newcomers, the working-age population…
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing growing pressure from business groups to allow more immigration to address Canada’s labor needs, but the prospect of welcoming more migrants carries political risk for him www.bloomberg.com/news/article... @nojoudalmallees.bsky.social @bloomberg.com
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That sounds like all Canadian businesses to be fair. I haven't worked for one that made substantial investments to increase productivity or their worker's output. A lot of them still use servers from the 90s to cheapen out on things.
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Bloomberg reports Carney faces pressure from business on immigration
Bloomberg reports that Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing growing pressure from business groups to allow more immigration to address Canada's labor needs, though the prospect carries political risk for him.
“Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing growing pressure from business groups to allow more immigration to address Canada's labor needs, but the prospect of welcoming more migrants carries political risk for him.”
— Bloomberg Politics · source
What people are saying 3 voices from 1 site · best of 6 · verbatim
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I mean other than writing entire books on economics and being a world renown economist that has worked both in Canada and abroad in Europe, including trying to help the UK bounce back from Brexit ?
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Already is a disaster, but that policy change sounds like one final blow to finish off Canadians in white collar fields.
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It is right. I live in an area where the market is sky high and higher than anywhere in Canada, and with all the assessments they've done the last three years or so, I would say mine is down at least 10 percent