Ottawa Announces Target of 500,000 Immigrants Per Year by 2025

Ottawa Announces Target of 500,000 Immigrants Per Year by 2025
Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Sean Fraser rises during question period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Nov. 26, 2021. The Canadian Press/Patrick Doyle
Marnie Cathcart
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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.”