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Elements of immigration system ‘out of control,’ says federal minister as pressure to make changes increases

Posted on: January 20, 2024

Estimates indicate 40 per cent of our workforce will be immigrants by 2040.

There is growing acknowledgment that the country doesn’t have the capacity to integrate the increasing number of immigrants.

Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller has said that the number of temporary workers and international students has grown too quickly in Canada.

“It’s something we are going to look at in the first quarter, first half of this year,” Miller said in an interview on CTV’s Question Period earlier this week.

“That volume is really disconcerting. It’s really a system that has gotten out of control.”

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