Okay. Good.
That's a good question. All along, with this concern about the exploding NPR population, my first worry was not about housing or youth unemployment; it was that it has been very clear in the data. I was in a TVO interview, I think two years ago, drawing attention to this.
What we had was a bulging population of non-permanent residents who were seeking a pathway to permanent residency. It was growing much faster than the new permanent resident caps could possibly absorb them. The writing has been on the wall for a very long time that this is not sustainable. What is inevitably going to happen is that people will come here under the reasonable expectation that they will be able to make a transition to PR status and they won't be able to do that. What's going to happen is their visas will expire.
Unfortunately, there's a huge data problem behind this, and that's from Statistics Canada. With the way we count the population, we assume that when a visa expires, they leave, so the data might show that the population is stabilizing, but we don't even know because we don't track exits in the data in this country.