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Canada meets 2021 immigration target with 401,000 new permanent residents
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OTTAWA, 25 December 2021, (TON): Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said “Canada met its target of granting 401,000 foreigners permanent residency in 2021 by focusing its efforts on temporary residents already in the country.”
Canada, which depends on immigration to drive its economy and support an ageing population, saw new permanent residents falling over 45% to 185,000 in 2020.
According to a statement from the immigration minister “the majority of the new 401,000 permanent residents - a figure reached for the first time in more than a century - were already in Canada on temporary status.”
Fraser said "last year, we set an ambitious goal. Today, we achieved it.”
Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has relied on immigration to boost the Canadian economy since coming to power in 2015, setting an annual target of about 1% of the country's population of nearly 38 million.
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