Canada plans to welcome more than 1.3 million immigrants by end of 2024
CTV
The federal government plans to keep ramping up the record number of new permanent residents in Canada over the next three years as it works through a massive backlog of applications that have piled up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Federal Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said in his newly released plan that Canada will admit 431,645 permanent residents in 2022, 447,055 next year and 451,000 in 2024.
The federal government says it wants to boost its newcomer admissions rate to just over one per cent of Canada's population by 2024.
Despite Canada's rebound since the onset of the pandemic, there are still hundreds of thousands of jobs in all sectors waiting to be filled, Fraser said.
In addition, Canada's population is aging and by the end of the decade the government expects the worker to retiree ratio will fall to only three to one.
