Only difference is that there's a housing crisis in Canada right now and the current Liberal party is looking at limiting foreigners trying to study for an undergrad (Masters and Ph Ds are safe...).
Honestly, Ottawa said years ago that they expect more immigrants to come and they didn't bother doing more housing.
Edited by Ominae on Jan 28th 2024 at 7:03:51 AM
Visiting from the Hoag Galaxy
Yeah, the big problem with housing in Canada is that the vast majority of new housing is like, all luxury condos with the bare minimum level of low income housing included. There's no middle range housing being built at all and the foreigners buying the condos isn't really because they're so aggressive, it's because they're priced out of the range of most Canadians from the word go. Limiting foreign students won't fix the problem, it'll just make a lot of empty condos.
Not Three Laws compliant.
Yeah.
Limiting them will make the foreign students choose other places where they don't face this restriction.
My understanding is that in many places, it's actually wealthy foreigners that buy up houses and drive up costs. Note the distinction between "immigrant" and "wealthy foreigner"; a lot of these people then don't live in the houses they buy. Foreign students tend to live in/buy homes to live in them so they aren't the problem, usually.
This is where Switzerland draws a line in the form of the "Lex Koller" law: Only people who live in Switzerland can buy houses, with narrow exceptions for vacation homes. And we are explicit that "live in" requires that you are actively living here, not merely as a legal fiction.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Oh, bother.
Yeah, the problem is not the people who buy these places because they actually want to live in them.
It is the assholes buying them solely as investments.
Disgusted, but not surprised
CBC Saskatchewan is talking about how international students are being affected by the incoming cap limit.
They're talking to reps from University of Regina, University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Polytechnic. There's a bit part of visas for spouses.
Edited by Ominae on Jan 30th 2024 at 3:08:46 AM
BBC reported that few Canadian PR applications are processed. Ties partly to the housing issue and the standard of living is starting to get expensive.
Edited by Ominae on Feb 13th 2024 at 11:32:28 AM
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240406/p2a/00m/0bu/004000c
Meitetsu Bus is working on a partnership in helping foreign bus drivers recruited in and out of Japan to settle in the country while being bus drivers.
What's the difference between this thread and the migrant crisis thread?
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.