Bericht stellt fest, dass jeder fünfte Neuankömmling Kanada innerhalb von 25 Jahren verlässt, und fordert einen Bindungsplan

They want the passport and they leave after. They had a plan and executed.

We’ve known about this for years.

Astronaut families, families who get citizenship then go home and come back for retirement, etc.

The thing is many of these immigrants also have values that are in conflict with Canadian values. They work hard. They don’t want their money going to support what they perceive as wasting money.

If you want to keep (economic) immigrants, the most successful ones, you gotta address the elephant in the room. Most economic immigrants are conservative. They don’t wanna pay a ton of taxes. They don’t wanna support woke policies for their kids. Many come from conservative countries where a lot of liberal policies here are against their values. Not trying to argue whether these policies are good or bad but that’s the cold hard fact. The rest of the world is still far more conservative than Canada (or for that matter the USA).

Remember when our government spent tens of millions to “repatriate” Canadian citizens living in Lebanon?

Seems many immigrants come to Canada, work for twenty years or so earning way more than in their home countries, obtain citizenship and eventually return to their home country way better off economically than if they had stayed. My son’s in-laws have been here for 40 years and entering retirement they are moving back to their home country.

In many instances an 80% retention rate over 25 years is outstanding.

25 years? That’s very loyal 👏 Those who really want to leave do it in 5 years.

It’s funny, the immigrants that come here see the situation and go. “Eh, I can do better.” are the ones that Canada wants to keep.

The immigrants that come in and go. “Holy shit, they have food banks that give FREE FOOD? Wait, I can apply for Asylum/refugees and they supply FREE HOUSING?”

“Heres your free debit card with 1-2k a week on it to support yourself while we process your Asylum/Refugee claim.”

“THEY GIVE FREE MONEY TOO?!?! I NEED TO GET ALL MY FAMILY MEMEBERS IN ON THIS.”

Welcome to Canada and it’s broken immigration system.

You mean they come, pay taxes and leave. What’s wrong here. At least we should lower their accumulated benefits by a set percentage.

This doesn’t seem that bad (?)

You know it’s interesting, the report doesn’t go into WHERE these individuals go… They do indicate economic is one of the main reasons. To me, I’m curious if we knew where they were headed, couldn’t we then derive why they came to Canada in the first place.

Where I’m going with this, if we knew X% went to the US, then we can say, they came to Canada to get into the US, right?

So, in the recommendations, without knowing that big fact, are missing some key research.

Doesn’t sound much different than all the Canadians who retire to Central America, spending just long enough there that they don’t lose eligibility for our healthcare here.

They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars outside our economy on housing, food, booze, etc down there that doesn’t come back to Canada.

I guess migration is only cool when it’s rich white people going to poorer areas though.

Lol 25 years is a long time to live in any country. With so many things available worldwide people want to have the option to live where they want. I don’t see this as an issue.

The article is super light on details but imo using a bucket of 0-25 years as they seem to be makes this statement basically valueless. If I went abroad for a job opportunity and spend decades contributing to the economy then returned “home”at retirement that should be measured differently than say a tfw who comes for a season to do a job and then leave (which is not to say that they didn’t contribute during their tenure, just that the circumstances are notably different).

I mean. 25 years is a pretty long time really

There is a simple solution. Cancel dual citizenship. It is not neccessary.

Moved here 7 years ago, planning to leave soon. The government here treats immigrants like tax widgets to pay off their reckless spending and keep the housing bubble going for the boomers to keep winning, financially. There is no hope in being in Canada if you are a recent immigrant or Gen Z, unless you have generational wealth to get started. Besides, the weather is terrible and the people are fairly miserable.

The last thing we need is another federal program on something as stuipid as this. We need Trudeau to be gone and improve productivity and prosperity- then people will naturally want to stay.

Only poor people from third world and actual refugees stay

Expect it to get worse.. standards of living are now approaching developing countries, while cost of living is sky high. On top of that, we managed to import a whole lot of third world issues and conflicts. Yes, we still have it better than most of the developing world but Canadian dream no longer exists.

Maybe one in five immigrants came for the citizenship status and never planned to stay.

It would help if we had housing.

Retention plan? Build houses, reduce taxes and fix health care. Stop fucking around and giving undeserving people high positions in government.

Problem is… it’s not the poor and helpless leaving the country at an alarming rate.. it’s the wealthy, business owners, doctors, etc.. leaving the country at an alarming rate. And this is certainly alarming and not good for the country.

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