Ottawa is planning to bring in 500,000 new immigrants per year by 2025, Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Sean Fraser announced on Nov. 1.
Fraser said in a statement that Canada’s 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan would embrace immigration “as a strategy to help businesses find workers and to attract the skills required in key sectors—including health care, skilled trades, manufacturing and technology.”
Target immigration levels are set for 465,000 new permanent residents to enter Canada in 2023, 485,000 in 2024, and half a million in 2025. The government says it intends to attract new residents to small towns and rural living as well.
The feds have set a target of 4.4 percent of permanent residents outside of Quebec to be Francophone….