Unemployment at 8.5% (November, arguably 10.9%), only 62,000 jobs created (November), travel restricted to only if essential and...
"...The latest Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) data shows that the country welcomed 15,300 new permanent residents this past November. While this figure is an improvement from previous months, immigration to Canada remains low due to the pandemic.
In a given month, Canada usually welcomes around 25,000-35,000 new immigrants. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has seen this figure fall significantly since Canada imposed travel restrictions in March 2020.
In the first 11 months of 2020, Canada welcomed 174,000 immigrants. On the balance of probabilities, Canada’s intake for all of 2020 will be below 200,000 new immigrants which would be the first time this has happened since 1999. By way of comparison, Canada welcomed over 341,000 new immigrants in 2019...."
As context, at its peak last spring, the COVID-19 economic shutdown directly affected 5.5 million Canadian workers (3 million who had lost their jobs and 2.5 million who were employed but had experienced COVID-related absences from work)
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