Federal budget 2025: Foreigners living in Canada will get permanent residence priority, Immigration Minister says
Immigration Minister Lena Diab says her department will prioritize foreigners living in Canada for permanent residency over people applying to settle here from abroad, as she published more details of the number of immigrants who will be allowed to settle here over the next three years.
Tuesday’s budget set out plans to freeze the number of permanent residents at 380,000 a year for three years.
But figures published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Wednesday showed that an additional 148,000 permanent residents will be added to the official targets over the next two years through one-off initiatives.
Meanwhile the Globe continues to platform Century Initiative Mass Immigration Gaslighting. Carney’s pal and advisor Wiseman likely has his hands all over this duplicity.
Ottawa’s new immigration plan risks lowering Canada’s quality of life
Lisa Lalande is chief executive of the Century Initiative.
It doesn’t take much to decode how the Liberals want Canadians to understand their new immigration strategy, unveiled in Tuesday’s budget.
The message is clear: quality over quantity. As Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne put it in his prebudget news conference, “On one hand [we’re] saying, ‘Yes, we’re getting back to sustainable levels.’ On the other hand, we’re really focusing on attracting the best and brightest.”
