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OTTAWA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Canada plans to welcome a record 500,000 new permanent residents in 2025 and has boosted its targets over the next two years as the country looks to ramp up arrivals to address an acute labour shortage, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said on Tuesday.

Canada now expects to welcome 465,000 new permanent residents in 2023, up 4% from a previous target, and 485,000 in 2024, up 7.5%.

"This year's immigration levels plan will help businesses find the workers they need," said Fraser in a statement.

He added the new targets would also allow Canada to fulfil commitments to help those fleeing violence and war in their home countries. Canada is projected to reduce the number of government-assisted refugees it resettles by about a third, from 23,550 in 2023 to 15,250 in 2025.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sharply ramped up immigration since taking power in 2015. The country is on track to sur its target of roughly 431,000 newcomers this
Canada is struggling with an acute shortage of workers, particularly in skilled trades and industries like healthcare. The most recent job vacancy data showed there were 958,500 open roles in Canada in August and 1.0 million unemployed people.

Many of the unemployed do not have the skills, or do not live in the right areas of the country, to fill those open positions.

The new targets will boost the number of economic immigrants by about 13% between 2023 and 2025, with steep increases in relatively small regional programs that help funnel people to provinces and regions outside major urban centres.

A record number of Canadians are now retiring, hastening a mass exodus of Canada's most highly skilled workers and leaving businesses scrambling.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Business Council of Canada called for "bolder targets" in economic immigration.

The United Nations refugee agency said in a statement it welcomed "Canada's leadership on refugee resettlement."

Refugee lawyer Maureen Silcoff said Canada can do more to welcome vulnerable people. She contrasted Canada's policy offering refuge to Ukrainians, who are officially temporary residents under a special program and not subject to a cap, and Afghans who face danger from the Taliban for working with Canada but whose numbers are capped.

"Given what's going on in the world, given Canada's needs and given Canada's commitments, there's more that can be done."

There are many good reasons to increase immigration, said University of Waterloo economist Mikal Skuterud. But with rising interest rates, the tight labour market may slacken and newcomers may face challenges integrating, he said.

"We're at a real kind of inflection point. There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty."

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-targets-record-500000-new-immigrants-2025-2022-11-01/

All of us go soon run leave the country for the demonic thieves make dem do as dem please....

I will wait until the 2023 elections are over. If obi wins I stay, if they rig him out I move

If person house dey very okay and Accommodating, wetin person dey find go outside? Tufiakwa to Bad Government eeee. They make all of us have this great Joy leaving this country . GOD, Please Heal our Land.

Bksense:
Thank God. Opportunity to fulfil my dream of becoming a slave in Canada.

Get to it early. Canada's immigration process is a bit long so the earlier you started, the better for you. May God grant you your wish.

Reduce your fucking immigration policies, dumb ass country

labour crunch aka slave workers abi

Vote tilimbu and $1 will be N10,000 before the end of his tenure

Can #5m relocate one with family to Canada? Because if Obi no win, this country will be be so messed up

While Abike thinks Nigerians are criminals and Buhari thinks the youths are lazy, proactive governments are opening their doors because they know Nigerians are the most hardworking and most youthful population. Peter Obi will change this narrative and make Nigeria great!

Canada on ma mind

Canada here I come,a time is coming when it will remain only these useless thieves parading themselves As politicians in this God forsaken kwantri

....as if the conditions would not be stringent. No average Nigerian will be able to fulfil their criteria.

And the.jobs mostly ready for fresh migrants are those in the coldest parts of the country.

Half bread is better than nothing.

JAPA on my mind now



But e no go better for Agent that Ran away with my hard earned money

Akwamkpuruamu:
Can #5m relocate one with family to Canada? Because if Obi no win, this country will be be so messed up

if I get that kind money eh...I for don japa...

Jay5mie:
Reduce your fucking immigration policies, dumb ass country

Wetin did one dey talk?

Time for Nigerians to move .....

Akwamkpuruamu:
Can #5m relocate one with family to Canada? Because if Obi no win, this country will be be so messed up

Obi wouldn't win.

What's your plan B?

Stay back and enjoy Tinubu's economy I hope.

Nice...HW can I get Canada visa please

Some Nigerians will get into Canada now and start displaying the devil's incarnate in them. Before long, the Canadian authorities will remove Nigeria from the list of beneficiaries.

You claim that your country is not working. But the moment you get to a place where things work, you still defraud people. I don't understand how Nigerians think.

Canada will get their immigrants from Nigeria even in excess if Atiku or tinubu mistakenly win next year election....this I have seen

What are the major skills Canada need, I need to learn one before the end of 2023/24

Smart countries are developing every profitable sector of their civilization resulting in Job shortages.While Nigerian Leaders are still obsessed with looting the oil treasury to a fault instead of focusing on the expansive profitability of other sectors to reduce job scarcity.

For the first time even Russia is easing visa requirements to enable more people migrate to Russia just like Canada

Their immigration rules are too stringent.

Bksense:
Thank God. Opportunity to fulfil my dream of becoming a slave in Canada.

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Whao! This is an opportunity to a lots of people.

Oya u people should rush it asap....



Buh he still dey baffle me with everything the northerners are going through dey hardly Japa and na dem even get format to seek for asylum ....

HeadNigga:
I will wait until the 2023 elections are over. If obi wins I stay, if they rig him out I move

Leave Obi out of Nigeria's problem. The day I visited my local givermnet about 12 years ago was when I got to know that this country is messed up. What was going on at the LGA level, state governors don't even know not to talk of a president. Someone that owns a so called chemist shop (pharmacy), who was always permanent in his shop was a department head in the LGA. He didn't even attend a secondary school and he was on the payroll.

A good president can only designate but do you know the intents if those designated? An average Nigerian is just a time bomb looking for the slightest opportunity to explode corruption wise.

Americans are crying for better leadership, British are as well as most western countries although their own matter better our own.