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> Canadian permanent residency is incredibly easy to obtain I don’t feel this is broadly true. I just watched a friend jump though ridiculous hoops and ineffic

• pkd 5y ago
  It is not easy. But it is varying levels of hard depending on your background. You are also required to spend over half the year every year in Canada and it expires every five years. I'm not sure why permanent residents shouldn't be exempt when they are literally mandated to be permanently based out of Canada.
• pseudo0 5y ago
  Just visit any forum or discussion board related to immigration and you will see Canada mentioned as the fallback for people who can't get into the US. In particular, there has been pretty widespread abuse of investor visas, region-specific incentives, and student work visas. Investor visas have an extremely poor economic return, and most of the people who benefit from regional programs immediately move to the GTA. There are also a plethora of degree mill community colleges that count as "Canadian postsecondary institutions" for immigration purposes. In reality, their students do a few hours of academic work a week to keep their student work visa and moonlight as a trucker or in some other blue-collar field. Canada's approach to immigration, with over 400k people last year, is to take whoever as long as it keeps wages down and property prices up.