The controversy regarding the wearing of the niqab during Canada’s citizenship ceremony was one of many immigration issues that shaped the recent federal election campaign won by Justin Trudeau and the liberals.<\/p>\n
Immigration is a regular topic of discussion in Canada where one in five people are born outside the country. Immigration policy is as complex as Canada\u2019s diverse population. The source of our immigrant community comprises more than 100 countries.<\/p>\n
In Western Canada, the British Columbia Liberal success was evident in all three of Surrey\u2019s largely Indo-Canadian ridings.\u00a0 Few issues were as important as Prime Minister Trudeau\u2019s promise to double the number of parents and grandparents allowed into Canada each year.\u00a0\u00a0 Family reunification is on the minds of just about on every member of the Indo-community.<\/p>\n
Here are other issues:<\/p>\n
Refugees<\/strong><\/p>\n Responding to the current European migrant crisis, Trudeau committed to admit 25,000 Syrian refugees before the end of 2015.\u00a0 International refugee officials are already raising concerns.<\/p>\n A former Canadian ambassador to Syria and Lebanon, has warned that about half of those picked in refugee camps will be psychologically traumatized, with many unable to work.<\/p>\n The British government has issued an extra reminder to humanitarian taxpayers: Each Syrian refugee will cost about $40,000 CDN in the first year.<\/p>\n Family reunification<\/strong><\/p>\n Trudeau promised to double the number of parents and grandparents who could come to Canada to 10,000 a year.<\/p>\n A Forum poll has found that Canadians oppose, by a 2.5-to-one margin, boosting such family reunification programs. Despite South Asians being eager to bring parents and grandparents to Canada, a majority of Canadians know that thousands of seniors will cost billions of dollars to Canada\u2019s struggling national health care and pension systems.<\/p>\n Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n Harper was the only leader to boldly respond to the housing affordability crisis in Toronto and especially Vancouver \u2013 promising to collect data on foreign ownership, significantly restricting foreign speculation on housing. Some economists believe that foreign ownership and high immigration to Canada\u2019s large cities combine to increase the cost of urban housing.<\/p>\n Immigration rates<\/strong><\/p>\n The Conservative government raised Canada\u2019s projected immigration levels for 2015 to 285,000 a year from 265,000.<\/p>\n The Liberals campaigned towards maintaining Canada\u2019s immigration policies as the world\u2019s most welcoming.\u00a0 This is consistent with policies under previous liberal governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The controversy regarding the wearing of the niqab during Canada’s citizenship ceremony was one of many immigration issues that shaped the recent federal election campaign won by Justin Trudeau and the liberals. Immigration is a regular topic of discussion in Canada where one in five people are born outside the country. Immigration policy is as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":481,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4864,4859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-novembre","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-4864","category-4859","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/481"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}