Not to mention the back door to gaining quasi residency in Canada - the ten year renewable multi entry visa.  Almost a million of which applicants from China have secured in the past three years,

You get to live in Canada for six months at a time, (exit briefly and return) buy property, send your kids to school (paying foreign student fees), and avail yourself of all community services.

In exchange for paying for any medical, you don't have to declare overseas income or pay income tax.

Oh - btw - once your child has finished their post secondary course, they can apply for residency and sponsor their family.  Bonus!

This is how the feds are doing an end-run around immigration levels. Sure we only have 300,000 new official immigrants per year looking for housing, but we have an ongoing roll of a quarter million students, provincial nominee immigrants, TFWs, and a million possible ten year visa holders who can live here.