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Alberta's Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade, and Immigration, Joseph Schow, has issued a statement criticizing federal immigration policies, highlighting concerns about unsustainable population growth.
With Canada projected to receive over one million new immigrants this year, Alberta leads nationwide growth at 4.36%, straining public services.
The province experienced unprecedented international migration of 145,395 people and gained 43,750 residents from other provinces in 2023-24. Minister Schow urges Prime Minister Carney to fulfill his promise to cap immigration rates and address an estimated 500,000 undocumented immigrants currently utilizing taxpayer-funded services.
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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced plans to implement mandatory biometric collection for all citizenship applications beginning in 2026–2027.
This policy change will require fingerprints and facial recognition data from citizenship applicants as part of a comprehensive effort to strengthen identity verification and reduce fraud.
Unlike current practices where biometrics are only occasionally requested for security purposes, the new requirement will standardize the process across all applications, bringing citizenship procedures in line with other immigration streams that already utilize biometric verification.
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Canadian economists are questioning business narratives around labour shortages following recent restrictions to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
Katherine Scott from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives argues that many employers, particularly large corporations like McDonald's and Tim Hortons, have relied on temporary foreign workers rather than improving wages and working conditions.
While some rural businesses genuinely struggle to find staff, critics point to the food service sector's 4,000% increase in foreign workers between 2016 and 2023 as evidence of dependency rather than necessity.
Both employer groups and migrant advocates agree on one point: workers need clearer pathways to permanent residency.
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The Carney administration has come under scrutiny for withholding critical immigration statistics since May, with the most recent data only covering until March.
After Conservative Immigration Critic Michelle Rempel-Garner publicly challenged this lack of transparency, government officials claimed the delay is part of efforts to improve data presentation.
Critics argue this represents a concerning pattern following significant immigration policy changes, including the 2022 expansion of the Temporary Foreign Workers program and increased permanent residency targets reaching 500,000 for 2025.
Officials maintain that data remains available upon request, but opposition voices fear this signals a shift toward presenting "heavily edited information" rather than raw statistics.
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