Canada Wants 1M More Immigrants by 2021
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Canada Wants 1M More Immigrants by 2021
Canada wants to help immigrants and combat the troubles of an aging population and birth rate decline.
By Katelyn Newman , Staff Writer, US News and World Report, Jan. 11, 2019
More than 250 people became new Canadians at a citizenship ceremony held at a Royal Canadian Navy local reserve division in Toronto on May 2nd 2018 (CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR VIA GETTY IMAGES)
IMMIGRANTS: CANADA wants you.
Canada gained more than 286,000 permanent residents in 2017, according to an annual report to Parliament , and it wants to welcome more than 1 million as permanent residents by 2021.
"Immigrants and their descendants have made immeasurable contributions to Canada, and our future success depends on continuing to ensure they are welcomed and well-integrated," said Ahmed Hussen, minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, wrote in a message within the report.
The report includes an immigration plan for 2019 to 2021, which targets to admit about 330,800 immigrants in 2019; 341,000 in 2020; and 350,000 in 2021.
"Under this plan, Canada will welcome more talented workers with the skills and expertise our economy needs, reunite more family members and accommodate more refugees looking to start new lives," the report says.
Immigration accounted for 80 percent of Canadian population growth between 2017 and 2018, according to the report, and about one in five Canadians are immigrants.
Hussen, who immigrated to Canada from Somalia in the 1990s, noted in his message that immigrants entering Canada's labor force will help offset the country's new challenges of "an aging population and declining birth rate."
The number of forcibly displaced people reached 68.5 million as of 2017, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency . Canada's welcoming attitude toward immigrants, especially refugees in need of resettlement, comes as other countries – including the United States – are enforcing a tougher stance .
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Maybe the Statue of Liberty should be moved to Halifax.
From New Colossus, known as the Statue of Liberty Poem by Emma Lazarus
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Since Lazarus’ poem was mounted on a plaque, it is not actually inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. The only Statue of Liberty inscription can be found on the tablet in her left hand, which says JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776), the day the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence.
Yeah, I had read that when I originally checked out the poem - but I think most people feel that the poem describes what the statue means, even if that meaning wasn't originally intended. So, no big deal, move the plaque as well.
I agree, Mr Hussen, but the problem seen in Europe is that many do NOT necessarily become well-integrated, and in fact become a burden on the welfare benefits.
Okay, England, arrest me and send me to jail for even THINKING that.
I would say maybe, to a point. Here there are places like Chinatown and Little Italy.
Where I live there was a section of town that was mostly Vietnamese. Back when they came here, the elders could only speak their native tongue. Their children could speak both languages.
Now they are becoming more diverse. Some don't even know the old language, which is a shame.
A lot of them still do stick together yet it is more open. There are several Vietnamese markets I can go to.
I had never seen multiculturism to be a problem until certain immigrants demanded that THEIR culture be adopted, or the PC zealots and social justice warriors prefer foreign mores to what has existed and try to change what has always worked before.
I guess my point is that the US always celebrated diversity.
The only American way was freedom.
Now some people think America is a certain culture and way of life.
When that is not what we are supposed to be.
I'm not complaining about diversity. Toronto was a fantastic city to live in, two Chinatowns, a Greek Town, Little Italy, etc. and they would hold weekend street festivals that everyone enjoyed. It's only more recently that there is a community that not only does NOT integrate, but makes demands that rules and behaviours must be changed to suit THEIR foreign ways and needs - and that never happened when I was in Canada.
My parents were immigrants - but they not only integrated, they refused to speak their first language and spoke only English. The only time they would speak their own language was when they didn't want my brother and me to know what they were saying. As well they both worked and took no welfare and my father built a very successful business. They became Canadians, not foreigners who happened to live in Canada.
Smart people are immigrating to Canada for freedom and opportunity...
Maybe I should consider moving 150 miles north, across Lake Erie.
Many said they would when Trump was elected, but I doubt that most who said it did.
I might join you. Pot is legal now.
Though I am not so sure about cold weather anymore.
I considered it when Trump was elected. I've been to the Peoples Republic of Canukistan many times but it's not difficult when I am closer to Toronto than I am to Chicago. We used to sail into Canada when my friend has a sailboat in the late 1980s and 1990s. It only required a driver's license to enter. Kingsville, Erieau and Point Pelee where the common places to enter. We'd meet the Candian Coast Guard just south of Pelee island when we crossed into Canuk water.
There are manufacturing jobs in the western finger of Ontario so I can surely find work as an engineer. A friend moved to support the oil sands in Ft McMurray but that isn't something that is attractive to me. I have another friend who lives in Whitehorse, Yukon but that is a different level of cold and crazy.
Palm trees can grow in Vancouver. In Vancouver you can ski on the mountain beside the city in the morning, and then play golf down below in the afternoon.
Smart people are immigrating to Canada for health care.
Yeah, as long as they have time to wait for their procedure, they are good to go.
Please don't die in the meantime ......
I had to wait 6 weeks to see a specialist.
I've had to wait weeks for a surgical procedure because TriCare likes to take its time approving things
It's about 2 weeks for me to see my GP or my Ob-Gyn.
Americans wait on health care, too. There's no denying it
That's a bullshit argument that people use to criticize universal healthcare. In Canada emergency situations get dealt with immediately. If it's a procedure that is not available in Canada and is in the US, the patient is covered by Canada's health care. There are examples also used for negative arguments about persons who can afford it who have gone to the US for procedures just because they don't want to wait even if it isn't an emergency - but it isn't out of necessity.
Not bad ..... move to Canada and your wait will likely be more like six months.
Canada's healthcare system is not all that and a bag of chips. Regardless of how hard US liberals try to push that it is.
It not a bullshit argument. Not in the least. And i'm surprised at you Buzz. Using "emergencies" as an example is pure red herring. Emergencies are dealt with immediately in most developed countries. Not just in Canada.
It is a well know fact that Canadians have longer wait times than Americans (and many others) almost across the board. Such information is not a mystery and is readily available for any interested in learning the truth.
Wait time survey
You should have researched the validity of the Fraser survey because most drs ignored it. The people behind it are libertarians who seek to break apart the Canadian health system.
Right back at ya .....
The Canadian Institute of Health Information didn't ignore it. They published it in conjunction with the left leaning Commonwealth Fund.
I think a major difference between the US and Canada is not really the wait time, because nobody is going to die in the meantime since there is no wait time for an emergency, but whether or not the patient can afford the cost or the insurance premium. When I saw an article here with a more than $30,000 price tag for one day including the procedures I shook my head. I experienced the wait time of about a month when I needed arthroscopic surgery on my knee, but guess what - I survived.
In light of the comments here I did a little internet research and found that the wait-times for non-emergency procedures must have increased considerably in the more than 12 years I've been away from Canada. My personal hospital experiences were long ago.
That's about how long a wait it is here in the States for a non-emergency medical procedure. It took over 10 days to get the surgery I needed when I broke my ankle in two places. Glad it didn't take any longer because of the wound festering under the cast. Then it was another month's wait to get the plastic surgery I needed for that wound.
Read the study in the link and you will find out differently.
There, helped you learn something today.
Take into consideration that due to the differences in population, Canada taking in ONE million new immigrants is comparable to the United States taking in TEN million new immigrants.
Canada is facing the same dilemma that the U.S. and numerous other countries are facing. A dwindling population...
I think it is because first world people do not have as many children.
Odd phenomenon.
What do you mean by ''first world people''.....I'm not familiar with that description. Do you mean ''First Nation people'' which would be the indigenous people of Canada?
More industrialized nations.
Good for Canada.
I wish our little brother to the north good luck in their chosen endeavors.
Have Canada send buses to our southern border and take those who wish amnesty. That could solve the wall problem.
Great idea. I wonder how many would still be on the bus when it arrived in Canada .....
Have Canada send buses to our southern border and take those who wish amnesty. That could solve the wall problem.
That would be a "win-win".
Refugees fleeing the horrors of Central American would get to live in a civilized country-- and the U.S. would no longer have to worry about our problems at out southern border.
Actually its a triple-win....Canada would get the immigrants it so desperately need!
I have a terrible feeling that unless the immigrants Trudeau is thinking about are properly vetted it may require the USA to build a wall along its northern and Alaska borders and put patrol ships into the Great Lakes - at a multiple of the cost of the southern border wall.
If Trump wants Canada to do it, that's okay, Canada has lots of material to build it with:
I can build those!
What kind of skill sets is Canada looking for...besides building snow forts?
Hokey players? Only if they can also play pokey - then they can do the hokey-pokey. Round bacon is important because it fits well in McDonald's buns.
Was the egg fired because it cracked up? This dialogue is getting so scrambled but omeletting you get away with it, cause I'm no poacher.
Canada would be smart to be very selective, there are lots of people that want to leave where they are. Countries taking in immigrants should pick the best not just take any that want to come.
Canada uses as point system requiring certain levels of abilities, education, skills, language, etc. I hope they stick to it - especially criminal back-check.
LOL Only if they have a record of not paying their parking tickets. Terrorists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers are always welcome.
Canada uses as point system requiring certain levels of abilities, education, skills, language, etc. I hope they stick to it - especially criminal back-check.
IIRC, most ( countries in Europe do not do that-- I'm pretty sure France doesn't). Which is one reason they have had so many problems.
I hear deportation is as simple as a plane or a bus ticket. When they herd up from the south, just keep herding them further North.
Trudeau’ should be ecstatic.
FWIW-- in the U.S., the average crime rate for immigrants is lower than for non-immigrants (people born here).
Not true.
FYI, the crime rate for illegal immigrants is 100%.
I would say the crime rate for citizens is 100%.
There is not one person that has never broken some law. Be it jaywalking or running a stop sign.
Okay, agreed.
So using crime rate, one way or the other, is a non sequitur.
Glad we cleared that up