04-14-2024, 10:39 PM
(04-14-2024, 02:54 PM)tomh009 Wrote: About 500K permanent residents per year. Non-permanent ones generally leave once their work permits expire so you can't really count all of those.
Why can't you count them? According to StatsCan we had an increase of 804,901 non-permanent residents, the majority being temporary workers and most of the rest being students (i.e. temporary workers). If that was the total number and it was relatively unchanging then sure, but that's the net increase. At least for the years this increase has been happening, it seems fair to assume this has an effect on the labor market. Statistics aside, anyone looking for a job (such as in both my household and in my local family) could tell you something is not right. Even not looking for a job, the signs are there. Spend an hour in a coffee shop and you'll see more people come in with resumes than you previously would've seen in months or even a year.