Immigration minister says international student cap is ‘here to stay’, announces additional reduction of study permits for 2025
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Marc Miller, left, listens to Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages Minister Randy Boissonnault, speak during a news conference in Ottawa, on Sept. 18.Ottawa announced a suite of measures to further shrink the number of temporary foreign residents in Canada, including tightening the cap on international student numbers and limiting work permits of spouses of foreign students and workers.
Mr. Miller said the changes, which include making students seeking postgraduate work permits to first pass an English or French-language test, are unlikely to reduce numbers rapidly. Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault announced a reduction in the proportion of low-wage employees that can be made up of temporary workers, including in Quebec. He capped at 10 per cent the share of a work force an employer can fill with low-wage temporary foreign workers.
They include a tightening of the work-permit rules for spouses of master’s-degree students. From later this year, only those whose partners are in study programs lasting at least 16 months will be eligible for a work permit. Henry Lotin, founder of Integrative Trade and Economics and a former federal economist, warned that the reduction in student and spousal visas may not necessarily translate into a comparable reduction in population.
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