Trudeau’s Immigration Pivot Spurs Jump in Permanent Residents
- With travel restricted, focus is on workers already in Canada
- 10% increase in January versus 2020 leaves minister confident
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A new Trudeau government strategy to attract more permanent residents appears to be working, Canada’s top immigration official said, putting the country on pace to exceed its goal of admitting 401,000 new residents this year.
Canada added 26,600 permanent residents in January, Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Wednesday in a video interview with Bloomberg News. That’s an almost 10% increase over the same period last year, before the coronavirus outbreak began in force. Factoring in additional admissions through mid-February, the government is almost 40% ahead of the pace needed to meet its 2021 goal, Mendicino said.