Federal Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino outlines an optimistic 3-year plan to bring a historical record-high one million newcomers into Canada within the post-pandemic era.
“Immigration is fundamentally about people coming together to build a stronger country, and that is an enduring value that I believe in, that I have faith in Canadians that they believe in, that we will see endure long after COVID-19 is behind us,” federal Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Friday.
Despite the fact that the pandemic is enforcing travel bans and border closures around the world, Mendicino is releasing an optimistic three-year plan which outlines the admission of 341,000 permanent residents in 2020, 351,000 in 2021 and 361,000 in 2022.
And these newcomer numbers are the highest they've ever seen in Canadian history.
The Immigration Minister went on to add that "the role immigrant labour is playing to keep the country moving during the COVID-19 pandemic is proof of why robust immigration must continue in the aftermath!"
“We could not put food on the plate of Canadians at an affordable price without immigrants, we could not support our front-line workers without immigration,” he said.
“So it’s vitally important that we continue to immigrate today in a manner that is safe and orderly and also to drive that future that we all believe will be underpinned by immigration as it has been in the past.”
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