{"id":106219,"date":"2022-10-21T17:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/immigration-to-canada-slowed-in-august-reveals-ircc-data\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:12:33","slug":"immigration-to-canada-slowed-in-august-reveals-ircc-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/immigration-to-canada-slowed-in-august-reveals-ircc-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration To Canada Slowed In August, Reveals IRCC Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immigration to Canada slowed in August but the country is still on track to exceed its ambitious target for the year, new data reveals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By end of August, Canada had welcomed 309,240 new permanent residents \u2013 an average of 38,655 per month \u2013 putting the country on track to receive 463,860 new permanent residents by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Ottawa\u2019s current Immigration Levels Plan for 2022-2024 sets out immigration targets of 431,645 new permanent residents for this year, 447,055 next year, and 451,000 in 2024.<\/p>\n

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Even with the slowdown in immigration in August, Canada will still beat its immigration target for this year by 32,215 new permanent residents, or almost 7.5 per cent, if the current trend continues for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n

At 463,860 new permanent residents, Canada\u2019s rate of immigration would be even higher than the ambitious target set for next year and even 2024, beating the target set for two years from now by more than 2.8 per cent.<\/p>\n

During the first eight months of this year, Canadian immigration surpassed the number of new permanent residents for the comparable period last year, 222,580, by 38.9 per cent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That was the year Canada set a record for the number of new permanent residents, welcoming 406,030 to the country in 2021.<\/p>\n

Despite that high level of immigration to Canada, there are those who say Canada needs to do more to boost immigration.<\/p>\n

Among them are former Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Navdeep Bains and his former chief of staff in 2016 and 2017, Elder C. Marques, two Liberal Party of Canada insiders who are no longer in politics.<\/p>\n

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In an open letter published in\u00a0The Financial Post<\/i>\u00a0earlier this week, the two men recommended that Canada boost immigration to the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cCanada deserves praise for our approach to immigration levels,\u201d the two wrote in their letter in
\nThe Financial Post<\/i>. \u201cBut while the absolute numbers may seem high, they actually need to be higher in light of Canada\u2019s population and demographic challenges.<\/p>\n

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