McCallum said a bill tabled in Parliament calls for between 280,000 and 305,000 permanent residents to be allowed into Canada in 2016, including more refugees from war-torn Syria. Calling it the country’s highest targeted number of new immigrants to Canada in modern times, McCallum said the government’s goal is to “bring in immigrants who wish to build a better Canada.”
The plan supports family reunification, reductions in application processing times, responds to economic needs, and allows the government to meet humanitarian objectives. The plan is supposed to be tabled each November, but the one for 2016 was delayed by the general election and change of government around that time last year.
