Canada will raise its annual immigrant intake by about 13 per cent to 340,000 by 2020 under a multi-year plan unveiled by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen on Wednesday. Under its 2018 immigration plan, the government will phase in the increase over three years by raising the intake initially to 310,000 next year and 330,000 in 2019 before reaching the 340,000 target in 2020. The last time the Canadian government introduced a multi-year immigration plan was from 1982 to 1984 but it was quickly scrapped after the country was hit by a recession, he said. Refugee advocacy groups were disappointed that the annual immigration level will be lower than the 360,000 they had been lobbying the government to adopt. “They urgently need to bring Canada’s immigration system back to order by stopping illegal immigration.

Source: thestar November 01, 2017 19:47 UTC