家和 CFSO

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/changes-open-work-permits-family-members-temporary-residents.html

Effective January 21, 2025, only spouses of certain international students and foreign workers will be able to apply for a family OWP.

OWPs that were approved under the previous measures and have not expired will remain valid. Spouses of workers covered by free-trade agreements and those transitioning to permanent residence will not be impacted by these changes.

CFSO's INTERPRETATION OF THIS CHANGE:
Hong Kong Pathway is considered a program designed to let work permit holders transition to Permanent Residency. As such, we believe Work Permits and Spousal Work Permits granted under HK Pathway are not affected. We strongly advise that applicants save documentation showing their original application under the Public Policy of Hong Kong Pathway, as we anticipate that IRCC officers will require more lead time to be familiar with the change.

https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/IESO-News/2024/12/The-IESO-to-Carry-Out-Routine-Voltage-Reduction-Tests-in-January-2025#:~:text=Routine%20voltage%20reduction%20tests%20will,reliability%20of%20Ontario's%20electricity%20grid.

Routine voltage reduction tests will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, as part of mandatory testing of the IESO’s emergency operating measures. The tests are an important tool for ensuring the reliability of Ontario's electricity grid.

Voltage reductions lower demand quickly and minimize the likelihood of service interruptions, helping the IESO maintain the reliability of Ontario’s power system during a variety of unplanned occurrences.

A three per cent reduction is expected to occur from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. EST. A five per cent reduction is planned for 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST.

Voltage reductions have minimal or no noticeable impact on the public as the voltages are still expected to be within established industry standards for electrical equipment used by residential, commercial and industrial consumers. However, sensitive electronic equipment may be affected.

【家和】 2025.01.21 (Tue) 多倫多市廢物處理指南 [網上講座] (英語)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 269 / [email protected]
報名: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevgQya8JfIkmGF3YjqHov8GUAHd6Wtnp47ahlcT1KiyXaFcQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

【家和】 2025.01.18 (Sat) 新移民报税知识讲座（国语） (國語)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 237 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/aTcz78sKHQsNtvUd8

【家和】 2025.01.22 (Wed) 稅務規劃工作坊 - 注册退休儲蓄計劃(RRSP) (廣東話)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 211 / [email protected]
報名: https://form.jotform.com/242274556970262

【家和】 2025.01.17 (Fri) 新年親子輕黏土年桔工作坊 (國、粵語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 204 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/jk46GG6UdCnnAezk9

【家和】 2025.01.15 (Wed) 如何成為餐飲業烹飪專才 (英語)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 234 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/BK44zyHwk3gxfNmN9

【家和】又再提醒想最後衝刺趕 Stream A 嘅準同學，如果要喺安省讀一年又收海外生嘅 Masters Degree，可以喺呢兩個公家網站搵。一個係大學聯會，一個係聯邦政府。

https://www.educanada
https://universitystudy.ca/

【家和】提醒想最後衝刺趕 Stream A 嘅準同學，如果要喺安省讀特快又收海外生嘅 College Diploma，可以用呢個方法：

1. OntarioColleges.ca > International Students > Program search tool
2. Apply filters:
- Program Length: 1 or less, 2 years
- Credential: Diploma
- Program Availability: Open
- Program Level: Post-Diploma, Post-Secondary
- Program Type: Accelerated
- Program Delivery: Full-time

P.S.: 我啱啱做嘅 SEARCH 就搵到以下嘅嘢。呢個只係包括安省嘅公立專上學院。要搵私校或者其他省請自己落手。

https://www.ontariocolleges.ca/en/programs/search?q=&page=0&by%5BIntakeAvailabilityEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=Open&by%5BProgramCredentialEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=Diploma&by%5BProgramDeliveryEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=Full%20Time&by%5BProgramLanguageOfInstructionEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=English&by%5BProgramLengthGroupEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=Two%20years&by%5BProgramLengthGroupEnglish%5D%5B1%5D=One%20year%20or%20less&by%5BProgramLevelEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=Post-Diploma&by%5BProgramLevelEnglish%5D%5B1%5D=Post-Secondary&by%5BProgramTypeEnglish%5D%5B0%5D=Accelerated

【家和】2025.01.09 (Thu) 多倫多家具指南: 家具銀行 (英語)
Toronto Furniture Guide: Introduce about Furniture Bank Webinar Registration Form (English)
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. 206 / [email protected]
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/UMV3zMc3CwZS6Pgd6

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

【家和】2025.01.21 (Tue) 3-6歲兒童社交小組 (國、粵、英語 )
Aged 3 - 6 Social Buddies Group (Mandarin, Cantonese &English)
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. /
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/msFpD3WWFBtqee4dA

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

【家和】2025.01.20 (Mon) 語言發展課程 (國、粵、英語 )
Language Course: Learning to Read with Fry Sight Words (Mandarin, Cantonese &English)
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. 264 / [email protected]
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/m7uvg5nz9FpiXXJZ6

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

【家和】2025.01.22 (Wed) 口音改善小組 (國、粵、英語 )
Adult Accent Modification Group (Mandarin, Cantonese & English)
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. 264 / [email protected]
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/Jz1KMasPNHkNsuyp8

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

https://www.cp24.com/local/2025/01/03/union-representing-ontario-college-faculty-issues-five-day-strike-notice/

從一月十一日開始，安省專上學院教職員將可以合法行駛罷工權利。歷史上，罷工情況可持續數天甚至數星期，有機會影響學期進度，但很少會影響到畢業日期。

罷工期間，老師有可能提供網上功課給學生自修，好讓同學們可以如期完成學期。

HK Pathway Stream A 嘅同學，祝你們盡快完成學業，順利獲取 PR 身份。

【家和】 2025.01.22 (Wed) 口音改善小組 (國、粵、英語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 264 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/Jz1KMasPNHkNsuyp8

【家和】 2025.01.21 (Tue) 3-6歲兒童社交小組 (國、粵、英語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. /
報名: https://forms.gle/msFpD3WWFBtqee4dA

【家和】 2025.01.09 (Thu) 多倫多家具指南: 家具銀行 (英語)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 206 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/UMV3zMc3CwZS6Pgd6

【家和】 2025.01.17 (Fri) 新年親子輕黏土年桔工作坊 (國、粵語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 204 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/jk46GG6UdCnnAezk9

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-pausing-applications-for-parent-grandparent-permanent-residency-sponsorships-1.7164532

【家和】2025.01.20 (Mon) 語言發展課程 (國、粵、英語 )
Language Course: Learning to Read with Fry Sight Words (Mandarin, Cantonese &English)
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. 264 / [email protected]
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/m7uvg5nz9FpiXXJZ6

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

CAD$34 50GB 全加拿大數據
+ 1000 分鐘免費國際長途電話
專為新移民而設，毋須本地信貸記錄
未出發都先可以開通電話！

立即用 【家和】專屬優惠碼 DCC7901，於 www.koodo.com/newcomerprogram 登記。

登記後可到【家和】辦事處取 SIM卡，或接受郵寄到加拿大或香港地址。

(此乃安省優惠，其他省份有不同優惠，請到網頁查詢。）

【家和】辦事處：
4051A Gordon Baker Road, Unit A, Scarborough ON M1W 2P3
星期一 & 五: 上午9點至下午5點
星期二三四：上午9點至晚上8點30分

THIRD-PARTY JOB POSTING

A small condo property of 202 units at Yonge and Hwy 7 is looking for a Property Manager with CMRAO licence or in the process of completing the full licence.

Apply with CV and cover letter to [email protected]

New laws in Canada in 2025 | CTV News
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/here-are-some-of-the-new-laws-and-rules-coming-into-effect-in-canada-in-2025-1.7138888

【家和】2025.01.09 (Thu) 或 22 (Wed) 或 28 (Tues) 食物處理人員認證課程(廣東話)
Food Handler Certification Course (Cantonese)
費用 Fee: $100 / $90 (PR discount)
* 適用於食物服務行業，包括餐飲服務學生及從業員，如餐館、宴會廳、安老院、 食物外賣、熟食店、雜貨店、超級市場、托兒中心，以及從事食品加工、包裝和運輸等
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. 204 / [email protected]
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/sVJfQbchx1tD1Yos9

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

CFSO was founded in 1986 for Chinese-speaking immigrants in Ontario.  We are a registered charity that specializes in serving cases of mental health, domestic violence, newcomer settlement, disabilities and special needs. Most of our staff are mental health workers, family therapists, psychotherapists, social workers, settlement counsellors, and other rehab professionals.

Some may know of CFSO in the recent years from our work on the Canada-Hong Kong Pathway. As an IRCC-funded agency, we have been providing input into the design and improvement of the pathway, and advocating for support services for other needs for newcomers in Canada. Our staff have dedicated countless hours in the past few years working on the Hong Kong portfolio with no funding, and serving work permit and study permit holders who are not eligible for government-funded, free services.

On youtube.com/CFSO_TO, we have created a library of videos to help Hongkongers prepare for their move to Canada, from tax planning, to career preparation, to education planning, to social and health service orientation, to step-by-step tutorials for IRCC applications.

Our government funding is very restricted and there is little to no government funding for services for work permit and study permit holders.  Domestic violence and mental health issues have worsened significantly after COVID.  We plea to the community for help to empower us to do our work and to benefit more individuals.  Thanks a lot.

【家和】作為一個註冊慈善機構，不斷應付日益增加的社區需要。
無論你需要減低稅率，甚或認同【家和】的工作，都歡迎你捐獻。
捐款 CAD$20 或以上可獲退稅收據。
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 請將款項 e-Transfer 電子轉帳至[email protected]，並在訊息框中註明需退稅收據的捐款人姓名。

【家和】2025.01.14 (Tue) 酒牌認證課程 (廣東話)
Smart Serve Certification Course (Cantonese)
適合餐飲及外賣工種，和廚藝學生
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299 Ext. 204 / [email protected]
報名 Registration: https://forms.gle/sVJfQbchx1tD1Yos9

了解更多家和最新活動 Check out our Upcoming Events: 🔗https://linktr.ee/cfso.care

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-border-agency-has-launched-facial-recognition-app-to-track-migrants/article_4ddd57ec-bbde-11ef-9f0d-ab0b80692041.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/lmia-points-removed-1.7415467

【家和】 2025 臘味蘿蔔糕義賣
無味精 無防腐劑 足料
訂購: https://form.jotform.com/243366258979273

【家和】呼籲各 SHOPPING 達人 🛍🛒 襯免稅做善事！

又到年尾係喇！ 我哋需要添置玩具及書籍，為參與特殊需要或復康服務嘅小朋友服務。🎁

喺大家開心購物嘅時候，不妨睇吓我哋嘅 REGISTRY，揀幾件心水送比我哋用喺小朋友服務身上。💝

祝福大家，及所有小朋友大朋友都有個快樂嘅佳節 ❤️🎄☃🤶⛄

https://www.amazon.ca/registries/gl/guest-view/3ELTDPKJFJINB

【UNI-Commons x 家和】 2025.01.04 (Sat) 標準急救證書課程 (廣東話)
費用: $125 (PR 及 公約難民 免稅)
年齡:14歲或以上人士
* 適用於醫療保健、教育、幼兒保育、社會福利、建築、康復、體育、休閒等各個行業、及3年有效期將屆滿的證書持有人
查詢: 416-979-8299
報名: https://form.jotform.com/242274556970262

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/canada-post-workers-to-return-tuesday-1.7411292

Time to shop for new tax-free items!

【UNI-Commons X CFSO X St Elizabeth's Church】密西沙加
2025.01.18 (Sat) 標準急救證書課程 (廣東話)
費用: $125 (PR 及 公約難民 免稅)
年齡:14歲或以上人士
* 適用於醫療保健、教育、幼兒保育、社會福利、建築、康復、體育、休閒等各個行業、及3年有效期將屆滿的證書持有人
查詢: 416-979-8299
報名: https://form.jotform.com/243476183066259

Calling Refugees and Asylum Seekers!

Participate in survey by TMU and get a $20 gift card.

Act fast!! Only the first 200 participants will receive it!

【家和】 2024.12.19 (Thu) 如何和孩子有效溝通工作坊 (廣東話)
查詢: 416-979-8299 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/6ze8BMQk6tdrE1nw9

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Fh2AwWFcAFymRmDE/

Please help with this survey by V4HK to understand challenges and needs of HKers in Canada.

【家和】 監誓服務
每份簽署文件 CAD$25
預約: 416-979-8299 Ext. 269

【家和】 2024.12.23 (Mon) 和諧粉彩佳節家庭樂 (國、粵語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 204 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/DHc1oFBE3LWyj2Th6

【家和】 2024.12.18 (Wed) 聖誕花環工作坊 (國、粵語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 205 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/VTb1wW2dX95MPrB5A

【家和】 2024.12.14 (Sat) 新移民家庭節日火雞派發活動 (國、粵、英語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. /
報名: https://forms.gle/DWP1yB64StNkJnDa7

【家和】 2024.12.14 (Sat) 整合人工智慧：求職的智慧策略 (英語)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 247 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/rmcLsRhoLsjNxB6J8

【家和】 2024.12.18 (Wed) 聖誕花環工作坊 (國、粵語 )
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 205 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/VTb1wW2dX95MPrB5A

【家和】 2024.12.12 (Thu) 自閉症與應用行為分析： 安省家庭的實用策略與支援 (廣東話)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 248 / [email protected]
報名: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScji-c2RwmsdbstLf7R3KvrR9HIQPwMZ5kfASBW5M4Q3cx8kA/viewform?usp=pp_url

New International Student Program regulations take effect - Canada.ca

"Moving forward, international students must apply and be approved for a new study permit before changing learning institutions. This change is in line with the important work we have been doing to strengthen the integrity of the International Student Program."

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/11/new-international-student-program-regulations-take-effect.html

【家和】 新移民冬季禮物登記
報名: https://forms.gle/EtdqugLrNJDd8RkWA

【UNI-Commons x 家和】 2024.12.15 (Sun) 標準急救證書課程 (廣東話)
費用: $125 (PR 及 公約難民 免稅)
年齡:14歲或以上人士
* 適用於醫療保健、教育、幼兒保育、社會福利、建築、康復、體育、休閒等各個行業、及3年有效期將屆滿的證書持有人
查詢: 416-979-8299
報名: https://form.jotform.com/242134957441255

【家和】11月食物處理人員認證課程(廣東話)
費用 Fee: $100 / $90 (PR discount)
* 適用於食物服務行業，包括餐飲服務場所從業員，如餐館、宴會廳、安老院、 食物外賣、熟食店、雜貨店、超級市場、托兒中心，以及從事食品加工、包裝和運輸等
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299
報名: https://forms.gle/U6sEDF4KpHte9ECT6

【UNI-Commons x 家和】 2024.12.01(Sun) / 2024.12.14 (Sat)
基本生命支援術證書課程 (廣東話) - 即急救證書高階版
費用: $80 (PR 及 公約難民 免稅)
* 適用於醫護專業人員，如護理人員、護士、急診醫師、消防員、急救員、牙醫、醫療保健提供者等、及1年有效期將屆滿的證書持有人
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299
報名: 12.01: https://form.jotform.com/241496941016256
12.14: https://form.jotform.com/243116014441240

【家和】 2024.11.16 (Sat) 職業探索 工作坊 (英語)
查詢: 416-979-8299 Ext. 247 / [email protected]
報名: https://forms.gle/wE6xgHq9c86fQCn46

家和 CFSO, [2024-11-13 8:30 PM]
【UNI-Commons】 巴西柔術訓練班(20節課)
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Training Courses (20 sessions)
費用 Fee: $100-$240
查詢 Inquiry: 416-979-8299
報名: https://form.jotform.com/241705879109262

WARNING: Mailing is likely to be held on starting this Friday. Strike by Canada Post is imminent.

THIRD-PARTY JOB POSTING

Government of Ontario hiring election officials

https://www.elections.on.ca/electionofficials

his phones had been ringing “off the hook” from people in America inquiring about how to move to Canada since the U.S. election.

He predicted many of those crossing illegally would face “horrible hardship,” paying people smugglers to cross the border and then struggling to find housing and jobs.

Speculation about the impact of a Trump presidency on asylum seekers comes amid a wider debate in Canada about the levels of immigration, including temporary foreign workers and students, as well as refugee claimants, and their impact on housing and other services.

A new poll suggests most people think Canada should let fewer refugees stay, with only 10 per cent of Canadians believing the country should accept more, according to a Nanos poll conducted for The Globe and Mail.

The poll showed 56 per cent of respondents think Canada should accept fewer refugees and protected persons as permanent residents than Ottawa plans next year.

The Nanos poll, a hybrid telephone and online survey of 1,010 people, found that 59 per cent of those polled in Quebec want Canada to allow fewer refugees to settle here, compared with 49 per cent in British Columbia and 57 per cent in Ontario. Almost 60 per cent of men, compared with 53 per cent of women, think Canada should allow fewer refugees to settle here and 29 per cent of Canadians think Ottawa has got the number about right.

The poll asked about plans by Ottawa to accept 395,000 immigrants as permanent residents in 2025, of whom about 68,000 (or about 17 per cent) would be refugees or protected persons.

Nik Nanos, chairman of Nanos Research, said the poll shows Canadians are not against immigration, but they are concerned about whether Canada can accommodate more people.

“When there is a shortage of housing and a shortage of doctors and a shortage of nurses, average Canadians are thinking: Do we have the capacity to take more?” he said.

The poll, conducted between Nov. 4 to Nov. 6, has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, plus or minus, 19 times out of 20.

【家和】 2024-25 冬季居合劍術初級班(8節課)
日期 (逢星期六): Nov 30;
Dec 7, 14, 21;
Jan 4, 11, 18, 25
費用: $120 ($80 + 木刀$40)
查詢: [email protected] Anthony
報名: https://form.jotform.com/241714947841261

【UNI-Commons x 家和】 2024.12.15 (Sun) 標準急救證書課程 (廣東話)
費用: $125 (PR 及 公約難民 免稅)
年齡:14歲或以上人士
* 適用於醫療保健、教育、幼兒保育、社會福利、建築、康復、體育、休閒等各個行業、及3年有效期將屆滿的證書持有人
查詢: 416-979-8299
報名: https://form.jotform.com/242134957441255

【UNI-Commons x 家和】 2024.12.08 (Sun) 標準急救證書課程 (廣東話)
費用: $125 (PR 及 公約難民 免稅)
年齡:14歲或以上人士
* 適用於醫療保健、教育、幼兒保育、社會福利、建築、康復、體育、休閒等各個行業、及3年有效期將屆滿的證書持有人
查詢: 416-979-8299
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THIS PETITION NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT - 3 more days left to collect 3,000 signatures.

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On the asylum front, Alexander said Ottawa must inject funding to expedite processing to discourage unfounded claims and allow legitimate claimants quicker settlement. There have been 120,000 new claims this year and the refugee board’s backlog exceeds 218,500 cases.

He said the economic context is key to how immigration is perceived.

“The unspoken story of our fraying consensus around immigration to Canada is that immigration is popular in this country when we have an economy that’s floating all boats, when wages are increasing and business investment growing.”

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Canada will slash 2025 target for permanent residents by 21 per cent

The shocking move to be announced by Immigration Minister Marc Miller in his three-year plan follows years of increases.

Toronto Star October 24, 2022 By Nicholas Keung

Ottawa is going to slash the number of new permanent residents welcomed to the country by 21 per cent to 395,000 next year amid a growing sentiment among Canadians that there’s too much immigration.

Last November, in response to the affordable housing crisis and rising cost of living, Immigration Minister Marc Miller put a brake on further increases of the permanent resident numbers and set a target of 500,000 for 2025 and 2026.

On Wednesday, a source confirmed the permanent resident admission levels first reported by the National Post will be reduced further to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027, after years of increases since Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government was first elected. The numbers are still higher than the 272,000 permanent residents Canada welcomed in 2015.

News of the shocking permanent resident cuts came just days after a long-term tracking poll by Environics Institute found 58 per cent of Canadians said there’s too much immigration — the first time in a quarter-century that a clear majority of respondents share that view.

On Thursday, Miller is expected to unveil the plan to set the number of permanent residents in the next three years under various economic, family and humanitarian programs; all will be affected to different extent by the drastic reduction.

Miller declined to comment for this story, but in a recent interview with Star contributor Simon Lewsen, he did not rule out reducing immigration numbers if needed.

“We have to be more nimble than we’ve been in the past,” Miller said. “The system needed an injection of discipline.”

For the first time, the immigration levels plan will also set targets for how many international students and temporary foreign workers will be admitted, to ensure new immigrants won’t be a drag on a stagnant economy.

“We really need to know what the federal government’s objectives are, what their rationale is, what the factors were that they considered, what the consultative process was and what the evidence was that they used to determine those levels,” said Naomi Alboim, a senior policy fellow in migration and integration at Toronto Metropolitan University.

“It’s not enough just to put up a sheet of paper on one slide that has a whole bunch of numbers without any of this information,” she said. “It’s not transparent. It’s not believable. And it does not instil confidence.”

Canada’s population is inching toward 42 million by year end, up from 38 million in 2019, growth primarily attributed to immigration, which was key to Ottawa’s economic recovery strategy after the pandemic. Over the five-year period, the annual targets for new permanent residents rose to 485,000 from 330,800.

Since then, the federal government has introduced what Miller called “blunt” measures to rein in the number of study and work permit holders in Canada and tame the temporary resident population, which has ballooned from 924,850 to over three million, or 7.2 per cent of the overall population today.

Foreign workers now account for about 47 per cent of the non-permanent resident population, followed by international students (35 per cent), asylum seekers (13 per cent) and other permit holders (five per cent). Two-thirds of all temporary migrants have a work permit.

In March, Miller set a target of reducing temporary residents’ share of the overall population to five per cent over three years — a goal that the Bank of Canada recently projected to be unattainable.

Experts said the government needs to cut the number of temporary residents further to meet its target.

“You need some quite big changes, big reductions for that five per cent (drop) to materialize,” said Claire Fan, an economist with the Royal Bank of Canada, who estimates Ottawa would need a 28 per cent reduction in temporary population between now

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Opinion: Marc Miller and a mea culpa makes a rare success

The Globe and Mail, October 14, 2024, by Campbell Clark

The boom in the number of international students coming to Canada has been curbed. How do we rate this kind of success?

For years, the ranks had grown year over year, ballooning the number of temporary residents in Canada to roughly three million in a surge of unplanned population growth. Now, that trend is being reversed.

That’s happening because Immigration Minister Marc Miller did something that doesn’t happen very often in politics: He acknowledged government policy had gone off the rails and took steps to correct it.

In the spring, he capped the number of new student visas. Now, new statistics obtained by The Globe and Mail show that change has kicked in just in time for the new school year.

In August, typically the peak month for the arrival of foreign students, the number coming on new study permits fell to just over half of those issued a year earlier: 80,364, down from 152,542. The drop in the number of new permits – figures that do not include extensions of existing permits – continued in September, when 29,081 arrived, compared with 53,863 a year prior.

The significance of that is not just that there are fewer new foreign students in colleges and universities this fall. It’s that Canada is putting the brakes on the rapid growth in the number of temporary residents that has seen the population increase at a nearly-unprecedented pace.

Perhaps more important than the cap, Mr. Miller has moved to limit eligibility for the three-year post-graduate work permits so that fewer foreign students will become temporary workers. Together, the measures will curb the growth in the numbers of temporary residents.

“I think they are very effective,” said Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at CIBC World Markets. He argues the unplanned growth fuelled a housing crisis that is still having dire impacts.

Credit Mr. Miller, then, for taking action – in the face of a lot of screaming from the presidents of colleges and universities that have grown dependent on the higher fees charged to foreign students.

What’s most striking is that he is fixing a mistake that, at least in large part, was made by his own Liberal government.

After he was moved to the immigration portfolio in 2023, Mr. Miller didn’t smile and say everything is fine. He matter-of-factly admitted there was a problem. He talked about Canada’s addiction to temporary workers, problems in the student-visa system, and said the government would have to change course.

That’s not standard practice in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. In fact, it is something glaringly missing from Mr. Trudeau’s own politics.

If the Prime Minister had been able to tell Canadians a year or two ago that he’d made mistakes and was setting out to fix them, he’d have a lot more of their goodwill now. Yet he didn’t share Mr. Miller’s instincts.

Few in Mr. Trudeau’s government have followed Mr. Miller’s approach. Former Indigenous services minister Jane Philpott was disarmingly candid about problems in Indigenous communities, but she, too, was a rarity. Mr. Miller, who later held the same portfolio, plainly admitted governments failings and said things that weren’t written into the talking points.

Perhaps he wasn’t as worried about being frank in ways that would worry the controlling staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office because he had been a close friend of Mr. Trudeau since the two were schoolmates at Montreal’s Jean-de-Brébeuf college.

But it turned out that conceding mistakes made him more credible when he claimed successes. Now, Mr. Miller can claim one if arresting the unchecked growth in international students.

Sure, it’s probably too late to do much for the political fortunes of the embattled Liberal government. And it is only a partial success in fixing a big government mistake.

To be fair, it wasn’t only a federal mistake. Provincial governments, notably Ontario’s, encouraged the unchecked foreign-student boom and failed to regulate an education industry that sometimes made false promises to rip off students. But Ottawa didn’t grasp the problem, or control the numbers, until it was out of hand.

Whoever is in power in Ottawa will be dealing with the consequences for years. Hundreds of thousands of temporary residents who hope to stay permanently will either have to be absorbed into the numbers of permanent residents or told to go home.

Yet Mr. Miller has taken steps that have turned around the trend. It’s hard for governments to claim credit for acknowledging their big, bad mistakes, and fixing them. But in politics, that should be rated as a rare success.

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