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Housing Minister Sean Fraser says potential changes could be made to both the international student visa and temporary foreign workers programs amid record-high immigration and a housing crunch.
His comments come as the government is dusting off a Second World War-era housing plan to ignite the pace of home construction in Canada, and after Immigration Minister Marc Miller last week threatened that he will look at “significantly limiting visas” for international students before next fall if provinces and post-secondary institutions fail to act.
“We do need to continue to look at reforms to our temporary residency programs,” Fraser told Global News in an exclusive interview.
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