Ottawa has stepped up its effort to deport foreign nationals while stalling the rollout of a promised plan to grant permanent residence to those who have lost legal status in Canada, advocates charge.
According to government data, the Canada Border Services Agency removed 7,232 people from the country in the first six months of this year, at a rate averaging 39 people a day.
It compared to the total 7,635 deportations, or 21 cases a day, that the agency enforced in the entire year of 2021, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to legalize the status of undocumented migrants in Canada, a population estimated in the hundreds of thousands.
