100m by 2100 is not a government stated target, this is just a hypothetical target which is advocated for by the Century Initiative, which is an advocacy group and not connect with the government.Canada's demographics is the single most important reason why they would remain open to immigration for the foreseeable future. No way they would achieve the proposed 100M population count by 2100 if they dont accept at least 500,000 new immigrants every year
Immigration will remain but it could be slashed significantly like it has been for Australia. Much of the same reasons why people wanted immigration reduced there exist in Canada as well, such as immigrants overwhelmingly settling in major cities, increasing the pressure on the housing market, and increasing stress and congestion on public transportation and infrastructure.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, i'm just presenting the other side of the argument so people have a balanced perspective.
Express Entry was probably never meant by the conservatives to bring in the number of people the liberals have targeted. If you look at their numbers when they were in power they were much more modest. So they built EE but haven't been able to control how its been used. Furthermore, the conservatives failed in the last election mainly by running on a conservative lite platform, if they were smart they would have taken a shift more to the right and made reducing immigration one of their policies. They lost a lot of ridings by their vote getting split by PPC candidates.I agree that eventually the outland paths will close as they won't be that vital to the economic targets but I doubt it has that much to do with right or left. In fact, it was a right-wing party (cons) that built express entry and thus the outland pathways; and it was a left-wing party (libs and JT) who closed down outland pathways for an entire year so far.
Canada is a particular example but it is seen globally that left/lib parties work to outsource jobs while right/con parties work to bring jobs back home. So if right view becomes the sole power in Canada one day (and I hope that day is soon) jobs will return to Canada and who knows? Maybe Canada will even actually start producing and exporting technology instead of selling more gas and gold to import technology. That would be a good day for immigrants because, like in the US and EU, they could finally find a good job in Canada that's not a $45,000/year survival job in god knows what.
As you can see from con's last agenda published for the elections, they put all the value in true skilled immigration. With more jobs coming into Canada, skilled professionals with valuable experience would always find it easy to immigrate to Canada just like it is today with a few EU countries. Nothing will be as easy as FSW is now of course, but once FSW is eventually gone, the right-wing govt will provide solid immigration options for "skilled" professionals. What would the libs do? What they are doing now; try to sell their country's PRs to rich Chinese students (TR to PR, CEC etc) just like how they're selling their land to the rich daddies of those rich students.
Also, the outland pathway always existed even before EE, because the first come, first served paper-based system did not distinguish between inland or outland applicants, both were considered equal. It was actually with EE that the points system was revised to give additional points to inland applicants because international students felt they weren't given enough of an advantage for studying in Canada and having Canadian qualifications and experience.
I think eventually immigration will become like Australia, with occupation ceilings and numbers being allocated based on labour shortages in different sectors.
I have a feeling the changes they want to make to EE center on making draws occupation based, making draws more specific.
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