A group of advocates is urging the Federal Government to either remove the limit on applications to sponsor Afghan refugees in Canada or, at least, stop counting rejected applications towards the limit.
Last month, the government announced a new program that would enable Canadian individuals and organizations to sponsor up to 3,000 Afghan refugees who do not have refugee status from the United Nations refugee agency or another country.
The program will accept sponsorship applications until October 17, 2023, or once it receives 3,000 refugee applications – whichever comes first.
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November 1, 2022
Many newcomers to Canada in the past year set up residence in one of the nation's 41 census metropolitan areas, which contain populations greater than 100,000 individuals.
As was noted in previous years, Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver were the most welcoming cities for recent immigrants in 2021.
While most recent immigrants chose to live in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas, that number has slowly decreased over the last few years.
In 2016, 56 percent of all new arrivals settled in one of these cities. But by 2021, that number had decreased to 53.4 percent.
The drop was most notable in Montreal, where the share fell from 14.8 percent to just 12.2 percent over these five years.
#Census, #Canadian_cities, #statistics, #newcomers, #settlement
November 1, 2022
The latest Focus Canada survey on Canadian attitudes towards immigration shows strong and increasing support for immigration across the board. Except for Quebec, governments, businesses, and other stakeholders have been successful in their demographic and economic arguments.
 Even though Canada admits 400,000 newcomers yearly, 70% of Canadians still support current immigration rates - the highest number Environics has seen in 45 years.
The main reason behind this view is that there is now a societal agreement that immigration strengthens the economy and an acknowledgment that more people are needed from other countries to maintain population growth.
#Focus_Canada, #Environics, #survey, #immigration_levels
October 28, 2022
According to Statistics Canada research, immigrants provide a solution to Canadian labour shortages. In fact, 84% of the growth in the Canadian labour force from 2010-2020 was due to immigration.
The Canadian economy is expected to benefit from an influx of immigrants, who will help fill job vacancies and ease the burden of rising wages.
Newcomers to Canada would help reduce country-wide job vacancies, which, in turn, would stabilize the Canadian economy.
The increase in immigration in the next few years will benefit not only immigrants coming to Canada but also the whole country overall.
#Statistics_Canada, #Statistics, #immigration_growth, #labour_shortage
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220622/dq220622c-eng.htm
October 28, 2022
