One Way to Decrease Temporary Residents Is to Make Them Permanent, Ministers Suggest

One Way to Decrease Temporary Residents Is to Make Them Permanent, Ministers Suggest
Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship speaks in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 6, 2024. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby
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A key method of restricting the population of temporary residents is to offer them permanent resident status, the immigration minister said on May 10, but that doesn’t mean everyone who wants to stay will be able to.

Marc Miller met with his provincial and territorial counterparts for the first time since since he announced an unprecedented plan to set limits on the number of new temporary residents.