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Canada will cut the number of international students it admits this year by 35%, limiting the number to about 360,000, in response to affordable housing shortages plaguing the
Canada will cut the number of international students it admits this year by 35%, limiting the number to about 360,000, in response to affordable housing shortages plaguing the entire country and affecting the government in polls.
In 2025, Canada too will limit the number of foreign students in the country, although the government has yet to announce the size of the cuts, which will mainly affect young people from India and China, the two main countries of origin, although also Mexican citizens.
The restrictions apply only to those studying at universities and exclude those attending primary and secondary schools, as well as those in the process of obtaining a doctorate or master’s degree.
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The minister announced the reduction ImmigrationMark Miller, at the start of a three-day meeting in which Canadian government began this Monday in the city of Montreal under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau.
The meeting will serve as a policy calibration for the Trudeau government, which has had public opinion polls against it for months in the face of serious housing shortages and rising costs of living that affect most residents. Canadians.
Trudeau has ruled in a minority since the last general election in September 2021, thanks to special support he receives from the social democratic New Democratic Party (NDP).
The latest polls show the opposition Conservative Party (PC) polling ahead of Trudeau’s Liberal Party by 17 points.
Much of the dissatisfaction among voters with Trudeau, who has been in power continuously since 2015, is focused on high number of immigrants Canada accepts.
The Trudeau government plans to welcome nearly 1.5 million immigrants between 2024 and 2026, adding to the 2.85 million people who immigrated to Canada from 2016 to 2023.
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At the same time, the country needs to build 5.8 million homes by 2030 to make housing affordable, but at the current rate only 2.3 million homes will be built by that date.
With Trudeau’s poll ratings falling, the Canadian government is beginning to respond with measures to reduce migration.
On Sunday, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc told CBC Canada is considering introduce entry visas for Mexican citizens after the province of Quebec proposed the measure.
Last Thursday, Quebec Chief Executive Francois Legault sent a letter to Trudeau complaining that the province accepted about 60,000 asylum seekers in 2023, many of them Mexican, because Canada does not require entry visas for them.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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