Maple Leaf Consultants

12/13/2022

Despite the present softness in the Canadian housing market, several factors, including relatively low real mortgage rates, record-high immigration, institutional homebuying and investor confidence in the mortgage industry, suggest that, in the long run, the outlook for this market remains positive.

The decline in national home prices this year will not turn into a prolonged downfall like the one that happened in the early 1990s.

11/08/2022

Canada’s 2023–2025 Immigration Levels Plan embraces immigration as a strategy to help businesses find workers and to attract the skills required in key sectors—including health care, skilled trades, manufacturing and technology—to manage the social and economic challenges Canada will face in the decades ahead. Last year Canada welcomed over 405,000 newcomers - the most we’ve ever welcomed in a single year. The Government is continuing that ambition by setting targets in the new levels plan of 465,000 permanent residents in 2023, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025. The plan also brings an increased focus on attracting newcomers to different regions of the country, including small towns and rural communities. This plan helps cement Canada’s place among the world’s top destinations for talent, creating a strong foundation for continued economic growth, while also reuniting family members with their loved ones and fulfilling Canada’s humanitarian commitments.

03/29/2022

Canada has a labour shortage, especially when it comes to trades – an area of employment critical to meeting the new housing starts our market demands. With the influx of immigration expected in the coming years and in particular, the federal government’s goal to welcome 432,000 immigrants in 2022, it is expected that demand in the housing market will increase, especially in urban centres such as Vancouver and Toronto, which are hot-spots for new Canadians. With rising demand, what solutions are on the horizon to address affordability? Can governments implement new tax measures, or are other scenarios more likely?

RE/MAX explores how immigration policy could potentially address supply issues within Canadian real estate market, driven by skill shortages.

01/20/2022

Ontario is Canada’s manufacturing powerhouse and has been a leader in the automotive sector for over 100 years. Our established industrial clusters in automotive, manufacturing and technology – coupled with world-class post-secondary institutions, globally-leading researchers, highly skilled talent, and a supportive government – are the best in the world.

The Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN), a flagship initiative led by the Ontario Centre of Innovation and the provincial government, is bridging our strengths and coordinating our efforts to make sure that local companies scale into the global market and export their technologies and Ontario-...

10/22/2021

Ontario is set to introduce legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to get licensed to work in professions that match their areas of expertise. The proposed legislation would, if passed, prevent many regulatory bodies from requiring immigrants to have Canadian work experience to get licensed. It would also standardize English-language testing requirements and ensure licensing applications are processed faster. The changes would help remove barriers immigrants often face when trying to work in their professions.

Ontario is set to introduce legislation that would make it easier for immigrants to get licensed to work in professions that match their areas of expertise.

10/22/2021

Canada may extend the deadline of a program created this year to give temporary residents working in key sectors a route to permanent residency, and is considering expanding the program's eligibility to include refugee claimants.

Canada may extend the deadline of a program created this year to give temporary residents working in key sectors a route to permanent residency, and is considering expanding the program's eligibility to include refugee claimants, Canada's immigration minister told Reuters on Thursday.

08/30/2021

The sixth edition of the biennial fDi 2021-22 Americas Cities of the Future report has been released, and Ontario cities have once again earned high rankings, reflecting the province’s rising stature as an international centre of investment, commerce, trade, development and innovation.

Ontario cities are leading the future, recognized as prime investment locations in North America.