{"id":3115,"date":"2024-04-23T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T19:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2024-04-23T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T19:41:58","slug":"immigration-canada-to-slow-its-aggressive-immigration-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/04\/23\/immigration-canada-to-slow-its-aggressive-immigration-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration: Canada to slow its aggressive immigration program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The country had created an expansive immigration program due to the country&#8217;s low fertility rate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Canada\u2019s broad support for immigration, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said is necessary to counter an aging labor force and low fertility rates, has set the country apart.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/canada-bet-big-on-immigration-now-it-s-hitting-the-brakes\/ar-AA1nviBJ?ocid=windirect&amp;cvid=b7551bdb494646c5a2803b6a9483b783&amp;ei=316\">Canada bet big on immigration. Now it\u2019s hitting the brakes. (msn.com)<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>But due to very high housing costs in Canada, and increasing demands on government provided social benefits, the country will reduce immigration. The country has already banned real estate ownership by persons not having permanent residency or citizenship in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most countries, Canada largely restricts immigration to young people:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00a0For the most part, they would be economic immigrants, selected through a points system that values skilled work, education and youth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The ideal immigrant speaks both English and French, is young, and has specific &#8220;in demand&#8221; job skills, usually meaning advanced degrees and work in fields such as health care or engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada seeks to slow down its earlier, expansive immigration program, due to high housing and social benefit costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}