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Toronto (Ontario) [Canada], July 15 (ANI): Punjabi actor-singer <keyword id="20085213" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Diljit-Dosanjh" source="keywords">Diljit Dosanjh</keyword> is currently busy enthralling his fans with tours across the globe. Ahead of his performance at <keyword id="22413141" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rogers-Centre" source="keywords">Rogers Centre</keyword>, a stadium in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he welcomed a special visitor on stage: Prime Minister of Canada <keyword id="19898713" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Justin-Trudeau" source="keywords">Justin Trudeau</keyword>. His music has reached every corner, and even the Canadian PM couldn't miss meeting him before the performance. In the video, Diljit can be seen greeting PM Trudeau with folded hands. <div type="INSTAGRAMURL" thumbUrl="undefined" caption="Caption not available." user="undefined" cmsId="1721015206356"><url><![CDATA[https://www.instagram.com/p/C9agntIRZxc/]]></url><permalink><![CDATA[https://www.instagram.com/p/C9agntIRZxc/]]></permalink><payload><![CDATA[]]></payload></div> Sharing the video, the singer wrote, "Diversity is Canada's strength. Prime Minister @justinpjtrudeau came to check out history in the making: we sold out the Rogers Centre!" As soon as the video was shared, fans and industry friends chimed in the comment section. Singer Harshdeep Kaur wrote, " Legend." One of the users wrote, "@diljitdosanjh thank you for representing each one of us on this level." Impressed by Diljit Dosanjh's presence in the country, the Canadian PM took to X handle and shared pictures from his visit to the venue where the singer performed live. <div type="twitter" handle="JustinTrudeau" handlename="JustinTrudeau" favoritecount="0" retweetcount="0" id="1812570857299931577"></div> He captioned the post, which read, "Stopped by the Rogers Centre to wish @diljitdosanjh good luck before his show. Canada is a great country -- one where a guy from Punjab can make history and sell out stadiums. Diversity isn't just our strength. It's a super power." Meanwhile, on the film front, he was recently seen playing the lead role in Imtiaz Ali's 'Amar Singh Chamkila,' alongside Parineeti Chopra. He also played a pivotal role in 'Crew' starring Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan, and Kriti Sanon in lead roles. His recent track titled 'Bhairava Anthem' starring Prabhas from 'Kalki 2898 AD' created waves around the world. He is currently receiving praise for his recent release, 'Jatt and Juliet 3,' co-starring Neeru Bajwa is also a part of the film.

Diljit Dosanjh receives surprise visit from Justin Trudeau at Canada concert

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suffered another setback.</li><li>His Liberal Party lost a Parliament seat that it had held for most of the last century.</li></ul>Canadian Prime Minister <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-prime-minister-justin-trudeau-and-sophie-trudeau-relationship-timeline">Justin Trudeau</a> suffered a new setback this week after his party lost a Parliament seat it had held for most of the last century.Trudeau's Liberal Party lost in the Montreal parliamentary constituency of La Salle-Émard-Verdun against the Bloc Québécois, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://enr.elections.ca/ElectoralDistricts.aspx?ed=2106&amp;lang=e">final results</a> released early on Tuesday.Liberal candidate Laura Palestini lost against Bloc Québécois' Louis-Philippe Sauvé by a 0.8% margin, with 27.2% of the votes against 28% for her opponent. NDP candidate Craig Sauvé came in third place.It was one of the closest three-way contests in recent memory that saw the frontrunners switch positions throughout the count, according to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-byelection-montreal-winnipeg-1.7321730">CBC</a>.It's also Trudeau's party's second consecutive by-election defeat in less than three months, a result that will likely pile pressure on the Prime Minister to step down.Trudeau already faced calls from his party to step down after losing Toronto-St. Paul — a safe seat in midtown Toronto that Liberals had <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-byelection-eric-grenier-tory-win-1.7245852">held</a> since 1993 — to the Conservatives in a byelection in June, per <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/trudeau-loses-another-liberal-stronghold-in-bloc-quebecois-byelection-victory-1.7040759">CTV News</a>.For the past year, the Liberal Party has <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://338canada.com/polls.htm">polled</a> well behind the Conservative Party at the federal level, now standing at 25% against 43% for the Conservatives.An Ipsos poll conducted between September 5 and 9, 2024, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/approval-trudeaus-performance-just-33-canadians-call-parliament-focus-cost-living">put</a> his approval rating at 33%. Two-thirds of Canadians disapproved of his leadership, citing disappointment with the cost of living and housing crisis.His Conservative rival, Pierre Poilievre, meanwhile, was the favorite pick for prime minister at 45% against 26% for Trudeau.Last Friday, Trudeau told Montreal radio station <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/im-not-going-anywhere-trudeau-weighs-in-on-economy/id1621131734?i=1000669476652&amp;l=ru">CJAD 800</a> that he would not resign if his party lost the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun election and vowed to stay on as party leader until the next election in October 2025.Before the election results came out, longtime Liberal supporter and strategist Andrew Perez said another defeat would be "yet another nail in Justin Trudeau's coffin.""If Trudeau's Liberals can't hold this safe seat, it will spell even bigger trouble for the party's prospects in Quebec and across Canada in a critical election year," he said in an <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/andrewaperez/status/1835847272950595625">X post</a> on Tuesday."It's going to be really hard for them to get around the narrative that the government is basically done," Lori Turnbull, a Canadian political analyst and professor at Dalhousie University, told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/17/trudeau-pressure-liberals-canada-election-00179472">Politico</a>.Whether Trudeau's government will stay in power until the next federal election remains unclear.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has pledged to put forward a no-confidence motion against Trudeau's government "at the earliest possible opportunity" when Parliament reconvenes in an effort to trigger a federal election, per <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-non-confidence-vote-1.7319948">CBC</a>.However, Poilievre would require the backing of the New Democratic Party (NDP) and the Bloc Québécois to trigger an election — and it's unclear whether or not either party will join the motion, per <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/what-has-to-happen-to-trigger-early-election-1.7321843">CBC</a>.

Justin Trudeau's future as the Canadian prime minister is looking increasingly shaky

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Canada will reduce its target number of new permanent residents in 2025 from 500,000 to 395,000.</li><li>Justin Trudeau said the new target will pause population growth in Canada over the next few years.</li></ul>Canada has announced cuts in the number of immigrants it allows into the country after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he "didn't get the balance right."At a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuFIwUQ6SgY">news conference in Ottawa</a>, Trudeau took the unusual step of acknowledging his policies had placed a strain on the economy.He said Canada needed to "pause population growth and let our economy catch up," adding that while immigration was "essential" for Canada's future, it must be controlled and sustainable.Under the new plan, the number of permanent residents arriving in Canada in 2025 will be reduced by 21%, from the initial target of 500,000 to 395,000.The long-term goal is to reduce that number to 365,000 new permanent residents by 2027.<h2 id="80880aaa-7718-4595-8c66-00b430baa1bd">Slowing down population growth</h2>Canada's immigration policy is often offered up as a model for other countries, with foreign-born people making up nearly a quarter of its population, according to the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-canadas-immigration-policy">Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).</a>"Immigrants have helped the country counter aging demographics and fuel economic growth, though some Canadians have expressed concern about the increasing strain on housing and social services," the CFR report said.Canada's population hit <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/10/government-of-canada-reduces-immigration.html">41 million in April</a>, with immigration accounting for almost 98% of population growth last year.Since 2019, annual targets for new permanent resident admissions increased by nearly 41%, according to figures from the<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/annual-report-parliament-immigration-2024.html"> Canadian government.</a>While its population has been growing, Canada has been grappling with a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-housing-crisis-bubble-imploding-real-estate-prices-rent-decline-2023-11">housing crisis</a>, increased costs of living, and rising debt.Canada's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/unemployment-rate">unemployment rate </a>was 6.5% in September. Meanwhile, housing prices increased prices by more than 355% between 2000 and 2021.According to a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://assets.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/sites/cmhc/professional/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-research/research-reports/2023/housing-shortages-canada-updating-how-much-we-need-by-2030-en.pdf?rev">2023 report by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation</a>, Canada will need 3.5 million more homes on top of what's already being built to restore affordability."These pressures have required us to adapt our immigration levels planning to the current climate," said Immigration Minister Marc Miller."Our annual plans must take into account the capacity to settle, integrate, and retain newcomers—which varies across the country—and monitor system-wide pressures in critical sectors such as housing and health care. At the same time, immigrants make significant contributions to the labor market and are part of the solution."In an <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/canada-s-economy-won-t-take-a-hit-from-immigration-curb-minister-says">interview with Bloomberg</a>, Miller said he was not worried about the slowing population growth from immigration cuts having a negative impact on the economy."We do have an aging population and whatever you see in the next three years with the neutral population growth is counteracted by the quite large growth that we've seen in the last three years," he said. "If it goes on too long, you have a concern, but we're not in that situation, far from it."The immigration cuts come as Trudeau faces challenges to his leadership. An Ipsos poll conducted between September 5 and 9 <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" class="" href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/approval-trudeaus-performance-just-33-canadians-call-parliament-focus-cost-living">put</a> his approval rating at 33%. Two-thirds of Canadians disapproved of his leadership, citing disappointment with the cost of living and housing crisis.

Justin Trudeau, a champion of immigration, says he overdid it and strained Canada's economy

<keyword id="19896882" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Canada" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Canada" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Canada">Canada</keyword> is set to make notable changes to its immigration policies, aiming to manage the influx of <keyword id="20073340" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="international-students" source="keywords">international students</keyword> by cutting down on the number of <keyword id="20293675" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="study-permits" source="keywords">study permits</keyword> issued. This move comes as part of the government’s broader strategy to control its <keyword id="23227485" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="temporary-resident-population" source="keywords">temporary resident population</keyword> and maintain the integrity of its immigration system. Prime Minister <keyword id="19898713" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Justin-Trudeau" source="keywords">Justin Trudeau</keyword> recently announced that the country will reduce the number of study permits granted to foreign nationals, citing concerns over the misuse of the immigration system. The reduction is already underway, with Canada issuing 35 percent fewer study permits this year compared to previous years. Moving forward, the Canadian government plans to decrease these permits by an additional 10 percent in 2025, lowering the number of new permits issued from 4,85,000 in 2024 to 4,37,000 in the following year. Trudeau talked about the need to address those exploiting the system in a post on X (earlier called Twitter). "Immigration is an advantage for our economy - but when bad actors abuse the system and take advantage of students, we crack down," he said. While immigration continues to play a critical role in strengthening Canada's economy, Trudeau added that these measures are essential to preserving the system's integrity. Canada's Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship department echoed this sentiment in an official news release, confirming the government's commitment to managing temporary resident arrivals. The department outlined a plan to stabilise the intake of study permits at the reduced figure for 2026, ensuring that the numbers remain consistent with 2025. To address the importance of advanced degree holders, the government will set aside approximately 12 percent of available study permits for master's and doctoral candidates. These students will need to provide a letter from their respective province or territory, recognising the significant contributions they can make to the Canadian workforce. <keyword id="19946179" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="marc-miller" source="keywords">Marc Miller</keyword>, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship, said that the changes are part of a larger effort to ensure a well-regulated and sustainable immigration system. “Not everyone who wishes to come to Canada will be granted entry, and not everyone currently residing here will be able to remain indefinitely. It is our duty to safeguard the integrity of our immigration policies, and we are committed to adapting them to meet today’s evolving challenges,” he said. The reduction in study permits is expected to have a considerable impact on international students, particularly from India. India has long been the leading source of foreign students in Canada, with an estimated 427,000 <keyword id="19971660" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Indian-students" source="keywords">Indian students</keyword> currently studying in the country, according to data from the High Commission of India in Ottawa. Education is one of the key pillars of collaboration between the two nations, and the new policy could affect thousands of Indian nationals aspiring to pursue higher studies in Canada. (With ANI and PTI inputs)

Canada to cut study permits for International students by 35%, Indian students to be impacted

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Thailand's prime minister has called for a ban on recreational cannabis in a major U-turn.</li><li>Srettha Thavisin said cannabis should only be allowed for medical purposes.</li></ul>Thailand's prime minister wants to ban cannabis just two years after his country decriminalized it for recreational use.In a <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Thavisin/status/1788135429793054722">post</a> on Wednesday, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin called on the country's Ministry of Public Health to revise its list of illegal substances to once again include cannabis, and to publish new guidelines limiting its use for medical and health purposes only.Thavisin also urged Thailand's health and justice ministries to join forces to arrest those who escape drug treatment or fail to undergo treatment, in order to prosecute them.Drugs are a problem that destroys the future of the nation, he said, adding that government agencies need to work together to eradicate drug activity and show clear progress within 90 days.Thailand was the first Southeast Asian country to legalize medical cannabis in 2018, and the first Asian country to decriminalize recreational cannabis in 2022, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/01/27/thailand-has-become-the-first-asian-country-to-decriminalize-recreational-cannabis/?sh=2e4c54534b21">according to Forbes</a>.The country's former health minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, spearheaded the effort in 2022, announcing his ministry would give away one million cannabis plants to Thai households for license-free cultivation as soon as the drug was removed from the country's list of controlled substances, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/12/world/asia/thailand-legal-weed-plant.html">per The New York Times</a>.However, since taking power last August, Thavisin has made clear his intention to overhaul the country's drug policy.His party ran on an anti-drug platform, pledging to eradicate drugs from Thai society, <a target="_blank" href="https://time.com/6316295/thailand-cannabis-restrictions-srettha/">per Time magazine</a>.In an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-09-21/thai-pm-aims-to-regulate-cannabis-for-medical-use-only">interview</a> with Bloomberg in September, Thavisin said Thailand needed to regulate cannabis because the country has a "widespread" drug problem.Other countries have legalized or decriminalized cannabis for recreational use in recent years, including Canada, Germany, Mexico, and South Africa. In the US, 24 states, two territories, and the District of Columbia have also <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ncsl.org/civil-and-criminal-justice/cannabis-overview">legalized</a> small amounts of cannabis for adult recreational use.In 2022, the global cannabis market was worth about $45 billion, and it could be worth more than $101 billion by 2026, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://prohibitionpartners.com/reports/the-global-cannabis-report-edition-3/#:~:text=Data%20Packages-,Overview,US%24101%20billion%20by%202026.">estimates</a> by Prohibition Partners, a platform for B2B cannabis.Cannabis use among Thais aged 18 to 65 has increased tenfold in recent years, <a target="_blank" href="https://cads.in.th/cads/content?id=339#:~:text=According%20to%20CADS%20annual%20surveys,methamphetamine%20(0.1%25%2D0.5%25)%2C">according</a> to Thailand's Center for Addiction Studies, from 2.3% in 2019 to 25% in 2022. It cited surveys from the Thailand Substance Abuse Academic Network.Thailand is also a market and transit route for drug trafficking to third nations, due to its proximity to the Golden Triangle, Asia's largest drug production area, <a target="_blank" href="https://berkas.dpr.go.id/ksap/aipa44/page/Thailand.pdf">per Thailand's country report 2023</a>.Cannabis use in public spaces remains illegal in Thailand, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/thailandprd/posts/394062252756591/?paipv=0&amp;eav=AfY8YiRUSoDR8osxoMom85DlMjlgRpuyznnBWVPPokcqPAbBDO5uBKLjZGCOgs0MFzk&amp;_rdr">according to the country's public relations agency</a>, and is punishable by up to three months in prison and a fine of about $675.

Thailand decriminalized cannabis 2 years ago. Its prime minister wants to ban it again.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Canada faces a severe housing-affordability crisis, with home values doubling since 2011.</li><li>Last year, the federal government launched the Housing Accelerator Fund to boost home construction.</li></ul>Canada is facing a housing-affordability crisis even more severe than the US's housing woes. But its federal government is starting to aggressively throw its weight behind fixing the home shortage.Like the American federal government, Canada's national government doesn't have a lot of control over housing policy. Instead, provincial and municipal governments create land-use policies and control building and demand-side subsidies that shape the housing landscape.Despite the federal government's limited control over housing policy, it's gotten a lot of the blame for skyrocketing costs, said Mike Moffatt, a senior director at the Smart Prosperity Institute at the University of Ottawa. That public sentiment pushed officials in Ottawa to warm to a more hands-on approach. "Canadians just want to be able to afford a home — they don't really care about the intricacies of constitutional law," Moffatt said.So last year, the federal government launched an initiative — the <a target="_blank" href="https://liberal.ca/our-platform/1-4-million-new-homes/">Housing Accelerator Fund</a> — that incentivizes local governments to legalize denser housing construction, including by mass transit, and otherwise stimulate more home building. In exchange, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party have opened up billions of dollars in infrastructure funding — from water to transit — to support that new housing.The program pushes provinces and cities to create more pro-housing policies, including ending single-family zoning, loosening restrictions on how tall and close together residential buildings can be, opening up government land for housing, and eliminating parking mandates. The federal government first made deals directly with all the country's major cities, which the government <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-government-fraser-housing-strategy-1.7171889">estimates</a> will allow 750,000 more homes to be permitted than otherwise would have been.In April, Trudeau <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-budget-housing-1.7161005">announced an additional $5 billion</a> in infrastructure grants for provinces and territories that implement pro-housing policies, including legalizing "missing-middle" homes. Those include medium-density housing like duplexes, triplexes, and small apartment buildings. The most recent push is part of Trudeau's larger housing plan, which aims to get <a target="_blank" href="https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/04/12/trudeau-reveals-liberal-plan-to-build-3-9m-homes-by-2031-amid-housing-crisis/">3.9 million new homes built by 2031</a>.Overall, the federal push has already been quite successful in changing the housing-policy landscape across the country, Moffatt said. For example, as a result of their deals with the government, all of the major cities now allow at least four units to be built on single-family lots. Certain provinces, such as British Columbia, have been much more willing to push pro-housing policies. Local governments in places like Ontario and Alberta have put up more of a fight. However, the approach creates some political cover for policymakers facing antihousing constituencies."Uptake hasn't been universal, but overall it's been quite strong," Moffatt said. "We have seen some municipal changes that, even 20 months ago, I would have said were highly, highly unlikely."But just because denser housing is legal doesn't mean it will get built. Building missing-middle housing and other more-affordable homes needs to be attractive to developers. And with home-construction costs way up, that's a steeper ask, said Matti Siemiatycki, who heads the Infrastructure Institute at the University of Toronto's School of Cities. "With the rising interest rates, with rising construction costs, a lot of the product that used to be financed is now becoming much harder," he said.City governments have long been "biased towards homeowners and not towards renters," Moshe Lander, a Concordia University economist, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/canada-housing-crisis-bubble-imploding-real-estate-prices-rent-decline-2023-11">told Business Insider late last year</a>, and support policies that limit home building and keep home values elevated.Like in the US, the housing-affordability crisis in Canada is driven by a lack of housing and rising demand. Over the past several years, an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/22/americas/canada-record-population-growth-intl/index.html">influx of immigrants</a>, rampant investor speculation, and rapidly rising construction costs have also sent prices up. The average home value in Canada has <a target="_blank" rel=" nofollow" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65688460">more than doubled since 2011</a>. Rents are up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cp24.com/news/average-asking-rent-prices-reach-2-193-in-february-up-10-5-from-2023-1.6802734">more than 20%</a> over the past two years. And a ballooning number of Canadians are spending more than they can afford on housing.At this point, most of Canada's housing landscape looks like California's supply-starved and deeply unaffordable market."The difference is that California makes up about 12% or 13% of the United States, whereas Ontario and BC combined are over half," Moffatt said. "Half to two-thirds of the country is unaffordable."Siemiatycki said there had been a "subtle but noticeable change" in how Canadians view residential density. Many homeowners who previously opposed densification are starting to realize that "even if it's not them that rising prices and skyrocketing impact, it might be their children, or their colleagues, or their elders," he said.Pro-housing policies are increasingly popular across Canada's ideological spectrum. The federal opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party, says Trudeau's government hasn't gone far enough and has <a target="_blank" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-housing-plan-1.6966907">proposed his own plan</a>, which would require cities to increase the number of new homes built by 15% each year or lose out on federal grant money. It would also impose a fine on cities that tolerate "NIMBY" — the antidevelopment "not in my backyard" philosophy — opposition to housing construction.Under President Joe Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the US federal government is providing states and cities across the country with hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for transportation and other infrastructure projects. Some American fans of Canada's Housing Accelerator Fund <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/yfreemark/status/1800921956268880362">suggest it could be a model</a> for US efforts to incentivize denser and more abundant housing construction.Correction — July 3, 2024: An earlier version of this story misspelled the names of Moshe Lander and Mike Moffatt.

Canada's bold plan to make housing more affordable is showing signs of working &mdash; and could be a model for the US

<keyword id="19896882" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="canada" source="keywords">Canada</keyword> is looking at the possibility of putting a cap on the number of international students to help reduce the surge in demand for housing and fix the system that has gone out of control, Immigration Minister <keyword id="19946179" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="marc-miller" source="keywords">Marc Miller</keyword> has said, a move that is likely to affect Indian students. The remarks by Miller came on Sunday as the federal government of Prime Minister <keyword id="1740494" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="justin-trudeau" source="Orion">Justin Trudeau</keyword> faced criticism for welcoming an increasing number of immigrants - both permanent and temporary residents - while the country faces an acute housing shortage. In an interview with CTV News, Miller said the federal government will need to have talks with provincial governments "to make sure that the provinces that have not been doing their jobs actually rein in those numbers on a pure volume basis." "That volume is disconcerting," Miller said, in reference to the number of international students in Canada. "It's really a system that has gotten out of control." A cap on international students would not be a "one-size-fits-all solution" to housing shortages across Canada, Miller noted. But he did not reveal the size of the reduction the government is planning on making. India was the first among the top ten origin countries of study permit holders in 2022 in Canada, with a total of 319,000 students. Meanwhile, new reporting by The Canadian Press news agency - citing internal documents obtained through an access to information request - shows the federal government was warned by public servants two years ago that its ambitious immigration targets could jeopardise housing affordability. The Liberals have set targets aiming to bring in 485,000 immigrants this year, and 500,000 in both 2025 and 2026. Temporary residents, largely international students and migrant workers, are another part of the equation, with more than 300,000 of them arriving in Canada in just the third quarter of last year. Miller said he will be looking in both the first and second quarter of this year at possibly setting a cap on international students to help reduce the demand for housing. When asked why the government is only considering a cap now, when the idea of one has been floated for months, Miller said there's a need to sort out numbers on a federal level before looking with "a little more granularity" at what individual academic institutions are doing in different provinces, possibly profiting off bringing in more international students. "We need to be doing our jobs and making sure that we have a system that actually makes sure people have a financial capability to come to Canada, that we're actually verifying offer letters," Miller said. "And now it's time for us to have a conversation about volumes and the impact that that is having in certain areas." When pressed further on the number of international students coming to Canada far outpacing the number of homes the federal government has announced it's planning to help build, Miller also said housing is only part of the calculation when it comes to immigration targets. The pressing need to bring down the average age of the workforce also needs to be taken into consideration, he said. And while he wouldn't give specifics, Miller said a cap on international students is something the federal government is considering, "and will continue to consider." "We have a sense of what those numbers would look like, what the reduction of those numbers looks like, out of courtesy to my colleagues in the provinces, those are discussions that we're first going to have around the negotiating table," he said, adding the financial needs of academic institutions is also a factor.

Canada mulls putting cap on international students numbers; move likely to impact Indians

<ul class="summary-list"><li>On May 30, Canadian prime minister <keyword id="11944708" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="justin-trudeau" source="Orion">Justin Trudeau</keyword> announced new gun control <keyword id="12031510" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="legislation" source="Orion">legislation</keyword>.</li><li>The law includes a freeze on handguns and measures to fight gun smuggling and trafficking.</li></ul>The Canadian government introduced new legislation that would more strictly regulate gun ownership, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday.There would be a national freeze on handguns, he said."It will no longer be possible to buy, sell, transfer, or import handguns anywhere in <keyword id="6356687" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="canada" source="Orion">Canada</keyword>," Trudeau told reporters at a <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">news</keyword> conference in Canada's capital, Ottawa. Canadians who already own handguns would be able to keep them, he added.The proposed legislation also includes measures to fight gun smuggling and trafficking by increasing criminal penalties and strengthening border control, as well as plans to strip licenses from people involved in acts of domestic violence or criminal harassment like stalking, according to a <a href="https://twitter.com/Gray_Mackenzie/status/1531376806460260354/photo/1">press release</a> from Trudeau's office.If passed, the bill would also require some magazines to be altered so that they can never hold more than five rounds.The bill proposed by Trudeau's Liberal Party, is expected to pass, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/world/canada/canada-gun-buyback.html">reported</a>.This is the latest move by the Canadian government to strengthen gun regulations.In 2020, the government <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Farticles%2Fcanada-bans-more-than-1-500-types-of-military-style-firearms-11588356791">banned</a> over 1,500 types of "military-style assault firearms." The ban came shortly after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-neighbor-nova-scotia-gunman-said-she-reported-domestic-violence-2020-5">the deadliest shooting</a> in the country's history, which left 22 dead in a rural area of Nova Scotia. One of the firearms banned by the Canadian government in 2020 was the assault rifle AR-15, the weapon used in many mass shootings across the US. The 18-year-old who shot and killed 19 children and 2 teachers in an Uvalde, Texas, elementary school <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101274322/uvalde-ar-15-style-rifle-history-shooter-mass-shooting">used an AR-15</a>. The Canadian government also <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/handguns-liberal-bill-1.6470554">promised</a> to move forward with a mandatory buyback of the over 1,500 weapons it banned in 2020, which is slated to begin before the end of the year.The new Canadian legislation comes as a series of deadly mass shootings in the United States have reignited debates over gun control.The Uvalde shooting, on May 24, followed a tragedy in Buffalo, New York. On May 14, a gunman opened fire on 13 people at a grocery store, leaving 10 dead. Both shootings are now among <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/deadliest-mass-shootings-in-us-history-2017-10">the 30 deadliest shootings in US history</a>.The US prohibited semi-automatic rifles for a decade, but the ban was not renewed when it <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101274322/uvalde-ar-15-style-rifle-history-shooter-mass-shooting">expired</a> in 2004.When semi-automatic weapons were banned, mass shootings in the US fell slightly. They rose again when they were put back into the market — although there is not strong evidence to suggest that the presence of the ban or its end caused the change in shootings, <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/may/25/joe-biden/joe-biden-said-mass-shootings-tripled-when-assault/">PolitiFact reports</a>."We need only look south of the border to know that if we do not take action firmly and rapidly it gets worse and worse and gets more difficult to counter," Trudeau said at the news conference Monday.

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