Ian Holliday for CTV writes, “a recent study by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and the Conference Board of Canada found the number of immigrants who left Canada surged in 2017 and 2019, to levels 31 per cent higher than the historical average. Former Vancouver resident Jack Strange is one of the newcomers who has left in recent years, returning to the U.K. after two years in the city, driven away largely by cost. “I was skipping meals, basically, because I was struggling to afford my food and my rent,” Strange says. For Azizi, the difficulty of transferring foreign credentials has also been an issue. “I was an architect back in my home country,” she says. “I went through the certifications.” Here in Canada, she is an intern architect.”
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