Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM

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The Prime Minister is sticking with the targets set out late last year by then-immigration minister Marc Miller when he set out a plan for future levels of permanent and non-permanent residents.

But economists who have analyzed immigration statistics say that any reductions would not reflect the true number of temporary residents living here and may mean that pressure on housing and services will not be eased to the extent expected.

Official population figures also fail to capture undocumented migrants who last year Mr. Miller estimated could number about 600,000.

The economists warn that Ottawa is overestimating the number of temporary migrants who leave the country once their visas expire. This could have a serious impact on planning, including for housing demand, they say.

I think this government is clueless!
 
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Ron in Regina

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Is this an effort to remove the appearance at least of the Trudeau Stank off the Liberals under Carney, who himself was hand picked buy…Justin Trudeau?

Carney will be presenting a “small, focused” cabinet of less than 30 ministers and up to 10 secretaries of state, with half of the entire team being “fresh faces,” meaning that they have never been sworn in as ministers, said a source within the Prime Minister’s Office.🤞

The secretaries of state will be members of the Privy Council and will be responsible for key issues and priorities within a federal department, added the source, but will only be invited to cabinet meetings when decisions associated with their responsibilities arise? Is this like the accounting game Carney has speculated about? I’m curious to see if it’s just a way to consolidate power, but time will tell.

Liberal insiders think Carney will be marking a clear contrast to former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s “sunny ways” by ditching the pomp and circumstance associated with a big cabinet reveal and will instead present a team solely focused on implementing his ambitious agenda (🤞x2).

That means finding the right balance between the (Ugh….) current, more experienced (stinkers) ministers, such as Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly and François-Philippe Champagne, and the dozens of new MPs elected under the Liberal banner who were hopeful of being named to cabinet.

“This might be one of the more complicated cabinets to put together, especially because one of Mark Carney’s biggest challenges is he has to make sure that this does not look (or smell?) like a Justin Trudeau cabinet,” said Laura D’Angelo, a vice president at Enterprise Canada.