Re:Canada announces open work-permit for tech workers and di...
by somerandomqaguy on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:01AM
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>Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration).
....... ?
Canada's number of permanent and non permanent residents increased by 1 million or so in 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-22/canada-s-...
Re:Canada announces open work-permit for tech workers and di...
by throwaway462910 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:29AM
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> Wait until you see what Australia is doing
Re:Canada announces open work-permit for tech workers and di...
by wesapien on Thursday June 29, 2023 @03:22AM
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The Common (un)Wealth. The society they've built is self extinguishing. Birth rates from immigrants fall off and become part of the status quo in a generation.
Re:Canada announces open work-permit for tech workers and di...
by bbqq on Thursday June 29, 2023 @06:09AM
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The numbers aren't correct. Australia has a declining population excl. migration, so perhaps your domestic figure doesn't include deaths.
Permanent visa quotas are indexed as a percentage of population since 15-20 years ago, and it was reduced this year for the first time in ages be 5k less (195->190).
Net overseas migration is commonly touted but that includes citizens/students etc and is just that years entrants - departures: highly affected by recent global disruptions during covid.
Re:Canada announces open work-permit for tech workers and di...
by Andaith on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:35AM
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That's not correct.
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national...
Key statistics
Statistics in this release are commonly known as Estimated Resident Population (ERP).
Australia’s population was 26,268,359 people at 31 December 2022.
The quarterly growth was 127,078 people (0.5%).
The annual growth was 496,800 people (1.9%).
Annual natural increase was 109,800 and net overseas migration was 387,000.
Plan is to increase our population by about 500k per year(I think about 200K natural growth & 300K immigration).
We already have a housing shortage. They created a 10bil housing fund. Plan is for this fund to... invest in the stock market, and use the interest to fund the construction of 6000 houses a year.
It's a fucking joke.
People talk about Big Australia(govt policy of sharply increasing population) for geopolitical reasons, but I think it's simpler than that. My personal theory is that the govt doesn't want to go into a technical recession and be excoriated in the murdoch press as bad economic managers because they were left holding the previous govts turd sandwich.
The parallels between Australia & Canada are interesting, but i'm curious why the Canadian govt is motivated to do this...