Canada spent the last few years bringing in people faster than ever. Now the system is contracting — and if you're a worker, an employer, or anyone with a stake in Canadian immigration, the rules you planned around may no longer apply.
In this episode of Border Banter, Sonia Sidhu sits down with Stephen W. Green, managing partner of Green & Spiegel and a 40-year veteran of Canadian immigration law, to zoom out from individual programs and look at the whole system — where it's been, where it's heading, and what the current shifts actually mean on the ground.
Stephen has watched immigration levels rise, fall, and rise again across four decades. His perspective reframes the current "crackdown" narrative: we're not entering uncharted territory — in many ways we're returning to levels that held for most of his career. In this episode:
