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The Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration provides the opportunity to inform Parliament and Canadians of key highlights and related information on immigration to Canada. This Report on immigration and its tabling in Parliament is a requirement of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), and serves to offer key details on the successes and challenges that have occurred in welcoming immigrantsFootnote1 to Canada in the past year.

This Report sets out information and statistical...

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada is still "an open country" after the Liberal government announced plans to cut the projected number of newcomers.

On Thursday, Miller and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the government is slashing the projected number of new permanent residents from 485,000 to 395,000 in 2025, with further cuts to 380,000 in 2026 and 365,000 in 2027.

In an interview with CBC's The House, Miller said that people "still see a lot of hope in coming to Canada" but...

 the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, announced the 2025–2027 Immigration Levels Plan: a plan that will pause population growth in the short term to achieve well-managed, sustainable growth in the long term. For the first time ever, the levels plan includes controlled targets for temporary residents, specifically international students and foreign workers, as well as for permanent residents.

Immigration is essential to our country’s economic success and...

Canada will lower the number of permanent immigrants it allows into the country by at least 20 per cent from its previous target of 500,000, CTV News confirmed Wednesday.

The decision comes as many Canadians face housing and affordability concerns, and the federal government has faced ongoing pressure to address the number of temporary and permanent residents coming to Canada.

During a Liberal cabinet retreat in Halifax last August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled a possible reduction in...

The federal government is expected to boost the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to temporary foreign workers in the high-wage stream as a way to encourage employers to hire more Canadian staff.

Under the current program's high-wage labour market impact assessment (LMIA) stream, an employer must pay at least the median income in their province to qualify for a permit. A government official, who The Canadian Press is not naming because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the...

A growing perception in Canada that immigration is to blame for some of the country's economic woes is fueling a xenophobic backlash evidenced by a surge in reported hate crimes against visible minorities, advocates and community members say.
Long a nation that took pride in welcoming newcomers, Canada is facing a reckoning over a sharp rise in the number of "temporary residents" such as international students and workers in recent years. Opinion polls show a growing slice of the public believes...

As announced by Employment and Social Development Canada in August, several changes activated Thursday.

Going forward. the federal government will stop processing Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs), specifically those in the TFW program's low-wage stream, in areas of the country with an unemployment rate of six per cent or higher. By refusing to process these forms, the government will prevent employers, in most cases, from hiring TFWs as long as unemployment remains high in their area.

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The federal government needs to do more to prevent misuse of visitors visas by people coming to Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said.

"We've taken a number of measures throughout the summer, particularly to deal with the flow of people coming into the country," Miller told CBC News last week.

"And it's no surprise to anyone that … we need to do a stronger job in making sure that people that are coming here, for example on visitor's visas, do so for those purposes and not for the purposes...

A “growing number” of international students are claiming asylum in order to stay in Canada after being allowed in on student visas, Immigration Minister Marc Miller says, calling it an “alarming trend.”

Speaking to Mercedes Stephenson in an interview that aired Sunday on The West Block, Miller said those claimants are using the international student program as a “backdoor entry into Canada,” often to lower their tuition fees, and that universities and colleges must improve their screening and...

Starting today, employers in Canada will face new restrictions on their hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers — a policy shift the federal government says will push businesses to make a greater effort to hire workers already in Canada.

Under the new restrictions:

• Employers will be limited to hiring 10 per cent of their workforce through the program's low-wage stream.
• Employers will be unable to hire through this program if they are in census metropolitan areas with unemployment rates of...