Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by 3qz on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:40PM (#30951648)

It’s not population growth, just immigrantion. 1.3 million in the next 3 years and 430k this year when the population is not even 40 million. That’s not even including the hundreds of thousands of foreign students and temporary workers. There are several cities where the majority of residents were not born in Canada so it obviously has an enormous strain on everything.

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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by vkou on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:40PM (#30952394)

1. So, it's a mere 1% of the population/year, in a country that has below-replacement fertility.

2. Of course you shouldn't count foreign students or temporary workers, they get counted if they choose to stay. If you were counting them, as well as immigrants, you'd be double-counting the same people.

3. I didn't realize that the singular suburb of Vancouver called Richmond, BC (Population: 216,000) can be referred to as 'several cities'.

4. Why does a young[1], educated[2] person moving into the country in the prime of their life 'put an enormous strain on everything'? Would you care to elaborate? To me, it seems like a gift of all the costs of early-life childcare, plus the cost of a K-12-post-secondary education from their country of origin.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/443305/international-mig...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/555224/number-of-landed-...

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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by 3qz on Saturday April 09, 2022 @01:21PM (#30969925)

Toronto is >50% foreign born. idk what stats you’re looking at

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