Canada\u2019s rate of immigration is skyrocketing this year even beyond the dreams of the Century Initiative, a non-profit organization which wants the country to more than double its population to 100 million by the year 2100.<\/p>\n
The latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals the country welcomed 274,980 new permanent residents in the first seven months of this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That puts Canada on track to see immigration hit 471,394 new permanent residents in 2022, or 16.1 per cent more than the record-breaking 406,025 new permanent residents to Canada last year.<\/p>\n Read More<\/b><\/p>\n Manitoba Invites 436 Canada Immigration Candidates In New PNP Draw<\/a> Under its Immigration Levels Plan for 2022-2024<\/i>, Ottawa had planned to welcome 431,645 permanent residents this year, 447,055 next year, and 451,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n At the current rate of immigration, Canada is poised to exceed not only its targets for this year and the next but even the proposed target for 2024 \u2013 and that one by 4.5 per cent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n At the Century Initiative, population growth for Canada is touted as vital for the country\u2019s economic growth and prosperity.<\/p>\n \u201cGrowing our population to 100 million by 2100 would reduce the burden on government revenues to fund healthcare, old age security, and other services. It would also mean more skilled workers, innovation, and dynamism in the Canadian economy,\u201d notes the organization on its website.<\/p>\n In its 2019 report, For A Bigger, Bolder Canada: Long-term Thinking. Starting Now<\/i>, the Century Initiative proposed vastly increasing immigration to levels than were considered to be so high the organization took pains to point its plan was not \u201cradical\u201d.<\/p>\n Those targets proposed by the Century Initiative in 2019 were 400,000 new permanent residents in 2022, 420,000 new permanent residents in 2023, another 450,000 in 2024 and 475,000 in 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The organization wanted immigration levels from then onward to be pinned at 1.25 per cent of the Canadian population, up from what was then an immigration rate equal to about one per cent of the population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n That would have meant an immigration target of 500,000 new permanent residents in 2026 based on a then-projected Canadian population of 40 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Canada has already almost reached that rate of immigration with the number of new permanent residents projected for this year to exceed 1.23 per cent of the country\u2019s population, determined by Statistics Canada to be slightly more than 38.2 million as of Canada Day last year.<\/p>\n Watch Video<\/b><\/p>\n
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