{"id":79338,"date":"2020-08-24T19:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/canada-warned-reduced-immigration-could-impact-economic-growth"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:28:22","slug":"canada-warned-reduced-immigration-could-impact-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-warned-reduced-immigration-could-impact-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Warned Reduced Immigration Could Impact Economic Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drop in Canada immigration<\/span><\/a> caused by the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail an important driver of economic growth, a new RBC Economics report has warned.<\/p>\n

Permanent resident arrivals dropped sharply, particularly in April, side-lining the federal government\u2019s strategy of immigration-fuelled economic growth.<\/p>\n

International travel restrictions and the closure of the Canada-U.S. border<\/span><\/a> were necessary to stop the spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n

Now RBC Economics is predicting Canada will welcome a maximum of 70 percent of the targeted 341,000 immigrants in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Immigration is the major driver of Canada\u2019s labour market and population growth, with many employers heavily reliant on newcomers to fill vacancies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reduced flow threatens to, at least temporarily, derail what\u2019s been a major source of economic growth for Canada in recent years,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n

It added: \u201cGiven the demands COVID-19 has placed on Canada\u2019s health-care sector, especially in long-term care facilities, the need for workers has never been greater and any slowdown is likely to add to existing strains.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statistics are revealing: Canada\u2019s second-quarter intake of 34,000 new permanent residents is down by two-thirds on the same period of 2019. Work permits<\/span><\/a> entering into effect in the second quarter were down by half, while study permit<\/span><\/a> processing plummeted 90 percent.<\/p>\n

The RBC report outlines that the newly approved permanent residents mainly came from candidates already in Canada temporarily.<\/p>\n

Nearly 60 percent of the second quarter\u2019s permanent resident arrivals were already in Canada, a figure that normally hovers around 20 percent.<\/p>\n

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With Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) switching to program-specific Express Entry draws during the pandemic, this trend is likely to continue.<\/p>\n

Draws have focused on Provincial Nominee Program and Canadian Experience Class candidates since March. Both groups are more likely to already be in Canada.<\/p>\n

Nearly 40,000 Invitations to Apply have been issued in 20 draws targeting PNP and CEC candidates in the last five months.<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s monthly immigration levels continued to recover in June, with more than 19,000 new permanent resident arrivals welcomed, according to the latest federal government figures.<\/p>\n

The total is a 75 percent increase on the nearly 11,000 newcomers welcomed in May, but still significantly down on the more than 34,000 admissions in June 2019.<\/p>\n

Between January and June, Canada welcomed 103,420 new immigrants, down from 160,230 in the same period of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The drop in Canada immigration caused by the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail an important driver of economic growth, a new RBC Economics report has warned. Permanent resident arrivals dropped sharply, particularly in April, side-lining the federal government\u2019s strategy of immigration-fuelled economic growth. International travel restrictions and the closure of the Canada-U.S. border were necessary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":79333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68467,3415,4859,58484],"tags":[5292,68445,68446,68730,69976,69977],"class_list":["post-79338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus-fr","category-immigration-au-canada","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-permanent-resident-fr","tag-canada-immigration-fr","tag-coronavirus-fr","tag-covid-19-fr","tag-pandemic-fr","tag-permanent-resident-arrivals-fr","tag-rbc-economics-fr","category-68467","category-3415","category-4859","category-58484","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79338","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}