Canada to reduce new immigration by 21 percent
Al Jazeera
The immigration controls will limit the country to 1.1 million newcomers from 2025 to 2027.
Canada has announced it will slash immigration for the first time in years, a major policy shift for the government as it tries to remain in power.
From 2025 to 2027, Canada will bring in a total of 1.1 million new permanent residents, a 21 percent drop from previous years, the government announced on Thursday.
The number of temporary residents, meanwhile, will also decrease by about 30,000 to 300,000 in 2025, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said.
The government said the plan “will pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term”.
The new immigration targets represent a break from the COVID-19 pandemic era when the government eased restrictions on temporary residents to fill labour shortages.
