OTTAWA –
Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada’s long-held consensus on immigration is underneath menace, however has not disappeared.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced plans to slash Canada’s immigration targets by 20 per cent subsequent 12 months and admitted his authorities didn’t get the steadiness proper after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre accused the Liberals of making an attempt to right course after destroying the nationwide consensus on immigration Conservatives and Liberals have held for 150 years.
He says attitudes towards immigrants have soured because of the insurance policies of the final a number of years, as Liberals ramped up the variety of everlasting residents and the variety of momentary residents ballooned.
Miller says issues about social cohesion and anti-immigrant sentiments exist in Canada, as they at all times have, and the brand new targets will not totally assuage folks’s fears.
He says the federal government wants to answer Canadians who’re involved concerning the quantity of newcomers however he additionally hopes folks, provinces and establishments who’ve benefited from immigration will converse up.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Oct. 25, 2024.
