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Originally Posted by jonny24
Do you have any stats supporting that this is happening?
It seems that, since it's a critical need, somebody would be tracking it to see how we are doing.
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Immigrants represent 18% of the construction labour market versus 25% of the general labour market, suggesting that the circular logic of us needing more immigrants to build houses for all the immigrants we’re bringing in will likely make the problem worse. The
percentage of TFW in construction has also been declining.
The bulk of our recent immigration growth has been due to the surge in international students and there isn’t much data yet, but somehow I doubt that your typical student working towards a business degree is going to be moonlighting as a crane operator.