Canada Sets Immigration Record as Trudeau Seeks More Workers
- Admissions make up nearly all of nation’s labor-force growth
- Government is now targeting half a million immigrants in 2025
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Canada added more than 431,000 new permanent residents last year, the largest annual increase in its history, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeks to ease the country’s labor shortages.
The new admissions met the 2022 target set by Trudeau’s government and exceeded the prior year’s record of about 401,000 newcomers, according to a release from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Tuesday.