How to achieve this reduction in the NPR population? The crux is how much to shrink the NPR population by facilitating the transition of NPRs to permanent resident (PR) status, as opposed to reducing inflows of new NPRs. [...] Furthermore, with growth in college-level foreign student enrolments and expansions in the Low-Wage Stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the NPR population includes migrants who would struggle to clear the hurdle of the economic-class selection system known as the Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS). [...] To the extent that the government does not rely on PR transitions to reduce the NPR population, it will need to find ways to reduce annual entries of new NPRs. [...] The government has also announced that it will reduce the number of study permits issued by 35 percent over the next two years.1 However, they are offloading the responsibility for allocating the permits to provinces, which raises concerns that the rationing of permits will impede the ability of top universities to recruit the talented students with the eventual potential to drive economic growth. [...] Mikal Skuterud is a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo, director of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum and a fellow-in-residence of the C.
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