Thu Nov 3, 2022 – 6:19 pm EDTThu Nov 3, 2022 – 6:21 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government has announced its plans to increase Canada’s immigration rate to 500,000 new people per year by 2025.
Trudeau’s Liberal Party government made the announcement Tuesday in what it says is a “Plan to grow the economy.”
According to the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada plan, some 465,000 new immigrants will be allowed into Canada next year, rising to 485,000 in 2024 and then 500,000 in 2025.
With Canada’s population estimated at 38 million, and the United States population being roughly 335 million, Trudeau’s new policy would be the equivalent of America – which currently accepts 1 million immigrants per year – bringing in 4.8 million people per year
According to Minister of Immigration Sean Fraser, this plan will allow Canada to “find the workers they need.”
Fraser also said it will allow the government to “make good on key commitments to vulnerable people fleeing violence, war and persecution.”
While the plan is being supported by Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) immigration critic, Tom Kmiec, both Kmiec and the plan were immediately blasted
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