Immigration Minister Sean Fraser revealed the new plan on Tuesday. It puts a heavy emphasis on admitting more permanent residents with needed work skills and experience, alongside more-modest targets for family members and refugees. This is a massive increase in economic migration to Canada,” Fraser told The Canadian Press. “In each of the last two years, we have resettled more than one-third of the total number of refugees who were settled globally,” he added. Kmiec noted officials within the immigration department have 2.6 million applications sitting on their desks waiting to be processed.

Source: thestar November 02, 2022 06:26 UTC