Canada eyes 1.3 million immigrants to overcome labour pains
Canada eyes 1.3 million immigrants to overcome labour pains
Canada aims to attract about 1.3 million new immigrants over the next three years to help fill critical labour shortages and fuel post-pandemic growth.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC) Sean Fraser announced the new targets on Monday as the government struggles to clear a backlog of about 1.8 million visa/citizenship and other applications in the queue exacerbated by pandemic-induced delays.
At the same time, the latest numbers from Statistics Canada show that job vacancies in the country remain high, with 874,700 unfilled positions.
In a statement, IRCC said there are still hundreds of thousands of positions in all sectors waiting to be filled.
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