Canada’s immigration and mobility policy as a foreign-policy instrument, including its international-student pipeline, temporary-worker programs, and diaspora relationships.
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Permanent residents capped, study permits halved, and a pledge to push temporary residents below 5% of the population by 2027. It is the sharpest immigration reversal in a generation, and part of the bill will be paid abroad.
Sudan, Gaza, Afghanistan, Ukraine: the countries Canada resettles from are a map of the crises it chooses to own. That map is being redrawn smaller.
For years India sent more students to Canada than any other country. A study-permit cap and a diplomatic freeze hit that pipeline at the same time, and college towns felt it first.
Every year thousands of Jamaican, Trinidadian and Barbadian workers fly north to plant and pick Canada's crops, then fly home. It is the oldest, most concrete strand of the relationship, and, in its fine print, one of the most contested.