For Canada, which urgently needs to rely on immigration to solve the problems of population aging and labor shortage, today is an important day, and it is also a day for foreigners who are willing to immigrate to Canada to pay keen attention.
Just now, the Canadian Immigration Department announced its "Immigration Level Plan for 2023-2025", which will be the overall goal of Canada's immigration policy in the next three years.
Immigration targets in the next three years are: 465,000 in 2023, 485,000 in 2024, and 500,000 in 2025!
new target has been greatly improved based on the previous plan.
In 2021, Canada received more than 405,000 new immigrants, breaking its historical immigration record and plans to receive 432,000 new immigrants this year. The immigration level plan from 2023 to 2025 will be accelerated on the basis of the current level!
The Canadian Immigration Level Program is a guide to the number of immigrants received in Canada every year. Canada's immigration goals include economic development, family reunion, and providing asylum for foreign refugees.
Canada is currently in a very unique period with a labor shortage and nearly 1 million job openings. Both are drivers of the growing immigration targets in the country.
Canada is one of the lowest birth rates in the world, which has exacerbated the country's labor shortage. Due to slow and natural population growth (the number of births still exceeds the death toll per year), immigration will soon become the only way for Canadian population and labor to grow. New immigrants also need to maintain a strong tax base, a key factor in Canada’s efforts to provide essential services such as education and health care.
Canada is one of the most serious aging countries in the world. By 2030, nearly a quarter of the country's population will reach retirement age.
Canadian government announced its immigration level plan for the next three years under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) before November 1 each year.
Canadian immigration categories include economics, family and refugee categories.
Most new permanent residents have immigrated through the economic category, and the family category is the second largest permanent residence category stipulated in the Immigration Level Plan. According to the family immigration program, applicants are funded by spouse, partner, children or other family members to obtain permanent residence .
Refugees and humanitarian immigrants are allocated by the government according to the immigration level program. Canada has a reputation for providing asylum to displaced persons fleeing their unsafe situation.
Canada's current immigration strategy began in the 1980s. At that time, the government did not look so far, and often set immigration targets based on the economic situation at that time.
In 1984, Canada received less than 90,000 immigrants. Entering the 1990s, the Canadian government under the Conservative Party, led by Conservative Party, began to recognize the potential problems of labor shortages and raised its immigration target to 250,000 within eight years.
The subsequent Liberal government built immigration on these goals, but due to the recession, it began to pay more attention to inviting more economic immigrants and reduce the share of the family and humanitarian classes in Canada.
Before the current Liberal government came to power in 2015, Canada received about 260,000 immigrants each year. It then increased to 300,000 people, and in 2020, COVID-19 reached 340,000 people before the outbreak of the new crown epidemic.
2020 Border closures and other travel restrictions due to the epidemic have made it difficult for IRCC to handle various immigration applications in a timely manner. Nevertheless, Canada surpassed its immigration target for 2021 and broke the record of the largest number of permanent residents invited in a year to 405,000. These goals are achieved through the allocation of large quotas in the Canadian Experience Class and Provincial Nomination Program (PNP).
