Canada to open door to more skilled workers, immigrant families in 2017

By Kathleen Harris, CBC News 

 

Immigration Minister John McCallum boosts base target to 300,000 immigrants and refugees

 

OTTAWA: -- The Liberal government is boosting the base number of immigrants allowed into Canada next year to 300,000, to help drive economic growth as the country grapples with an aging demographic.

 

Speaking to reporters after tabling his annual report in Parliament, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister John McCallum said the new target "lays the foundation for future growth."

 

The previous target from 2011 to 2015 was 260,000, but that swelled to 300,000 this year because of what McCallum called the "special circumstances" of the Syrian refugee crisis. That number will now be the permanent base.

 

The government's economic growth council had recommended raising immigration levels to 450,000 over the next five years, but McCallum rejected that target today.

 

Full story: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-immigration-levels-mccallum-1.3829496

 

-- CBC news 2016-11-01

They don't have quality jobs for current population.

Canada's matrimonial laws, sky high taxation, sky high utility costs,  over priced everything,

multiculturism now is a disaster, and so many laws and bylaws, you would have more freedom in jail and inclement weather 6 months of the year,

are all reasons why country hasn't grown on it's own and many educated. bright people have left.  Bringing in more 3rd world people will only make matters much worse.

The country has never had a business plan.

One group after another of self serving politicians haven't a clue what they are doing.

Good , we'll send them a couple of million muslims. Skilled in cutting thoats ... so good for slaughterhouses , laying bombs .... good for mining in Canada . Is pestering women a skill ?

12 minutes ago, koolkarl said:

They don't have quality jobs for current population.

Canada's matrimonial laws, sky high taxation, sky high utility costs,  over priced everything,

multiculturism now is a disaster, and so many laws and bylaws, you would have more freedom in jail and inclement weather 6 months of the year,

are all reasons why country hasn't grown on it's own and many educated. bright people have left.  Bringing in more 3rd world people will only make matters much worse.

The country has never had a business plan.

One group after another of self serving politicians haven't a clue what they are doing.

I can't wait to hear what the average Canadian feels about young Mr. Trudeau now, although there have been rumours about building a wall of their own after November 8.  

1 hour ago, silent said:

I can't wait to hear what the average Canadian feels about young Mr. Trudeau now, although there have been rumours about building a wall of their own after November 8.  

 

"young Mr Trudeau" has inherited his "brain" from his mother, once Canada's hippie-in-chief.

1 hour ago, blazes said:

 

"young Mr Trudeau" has inherited his "brain" from his mother, once Canada's hippie-in-chief.

Na na na I think you got your facts wrong. Maggie was a hippie but she's as much bipolar as bilingual and was never hippie in chief before. Just a reminder it's the USA with a system like Thailand where the person in charge of the country was the commander in chief of the armed forces. N'est ce pas? 

And I have to wait over 2 years because of the back log to bring my wife to Canada but we'll welcome others with open arms and rush them through.

18 hours ago, silent said:

I can't wait to hear what the average Canadian feels about young Mr. Trudeau now, although there have been rumours about building a wall of their own after November 8.  

Building a wall...I doubt it. that's just noncence talk. Canada has a good peaceful relationship with its neighbors to the south.