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Trudeau has made immigration his main weapon to blunt Canada's big challenge of an aging and slowing population, and it has also helped fuel economic growth. That drove Canada's population up at its fastest clip in more than six decades this year, Statistics Canada said.

But now a reversal of that trend is gradually taking hold. In the first six months of 2023 some 42,000 individuals departed Canada, adding to 93,818 people who left in 2022 and 85,927 exits in 2021, official data show.

The rate of immigrants leaving Canada hit a two-decade high in 2019, according to a recent report from the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC), an immigration advocacy group. While the numbers went down during pandemic lockdowns, Statistics Canada data shows it is once again rising.

While that is a fraction of the 263,000 who came to the country over the same period, a steady rise in emigration is making some observers wary.

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[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago (4 children)

On average in Canada about 60% of household income would be needed to cover home ownership costs, a figure that rises to about 98% for Vancouver and 80% for Toronto, RBC said in a September report.

Trudeau's utter failure to take housing costs into account is telling. He seems to have become blind to the needs of the people.

He may well lose the next election because of it ... and Canada will end up with a right-wing mess in Pierre Poilievre. :/

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we're f'd even more when PP/Milhouse takes over. Maybe we'll elect non-Conservative parties at the provincial level when that happens and start the cycle the other way.

People are forgetting Conservative premiers aren't helping anyone but their private donors.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It'd be great if it was just Conservatives that got us into this mess, but every government for the past few decades has been complicit.

The federal Liberals cut housing initiatives during the 1990s, which got CMHC out of the non-market housing business. Individual provincial governments did the same thing around the same time.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

A lot of that came about because Mulroney left us in deep debt. In '93 the Liberals changed the transfer payment sharing from 50/50 fed/prov split to something far less ... and as you said nobody did anything to fix after.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I'd call exempting primary residences from capital gains the first major (federal) misstep that lead to the current housing crisis. That was 1971.

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