Archive for April 2023

Canada has earmarked tens of millions of dollars to help expedite the processing of citizenship applications, provide legal aid to asylum seekers and modernise the country’s immigration system under the Liberals’ 2023 budget plans. The government plans to increase its annual target for immigration from 465,000 people in 2023 to 485,000 in 2024, and 500,000…

By 2041, immigrants could make up one-third of Canada’s population, Anil Arora, Chief Statistician of Canada told attendees at the Metropolis Conference held in Ottawa in March. And given Canada’s aging population,  and dropping birth rate, immigration is Canada’s best bet for the country moving forward, Arora said.  For comparison, twenty-five years ago the ratio…