In 2022, 431,645 new permanent residents settled in the country. The government wants to amplify this economic immigration to compensate for the aging of the population and the shortage of labor.
by Hélène Jouan (Montreal, Correspondent)
A record, called to be regularly broken in the coming years: in 2022, Canada welcomed 431,645 new permanent residents, according to official data from the Federal Immigration Service published Tuesday, January 3. It is 30,000 more than the previous year and it is necessary to go back to 1913 to find an influx of similar importance.
The government of Justin Trudeau intends to amplify this migratory windfall in the years to come. In the Federal Immigration Plan adopted in November 2022, he undertook to open its doors to 1,450,000 new immigrants within three years, with a peak of 500,000 arrivals in 2025. On the horizon of The next decade, Ottawa provides that residents from a foreign country will represent 30 % of the Canadian population (38 million people), when they were only one in five in 2011.
With this unique migration policy within the G7 countries, the Canadian authorities are pursuing two objectives. The first is to compensate for the aging of the population -5 million Canadians will retire by the end of the decade -the second is to face a glaring shortage of labor. The Minister of Housing, Ahmed Hussen, recently mentioned the figure “of a million vacant jobs” across the country.
selection at the entrance to the territory
The majority of new residents of 2022 were also welcomed for economic immigration; Either new workers have specific professional skills in the local level, or they have demonstrated that they are able to create companies in Canada. This selection at the entrance to the territory added to an active policy in terms of integration produces an atypical portrait of this population: 36 % of doctors, 41 % of engineers and one in three business manager in Canada come from the immigration.
But, in 2022, despite the efforts of the government to try to attract newcomers to its in -laws in the process of depopulation, the great metropolises remained the most attractive: a little more than a quarter of them had The intention to settle in the large region of Toronto, the country’s first city, followed by Vancouver (British Columbia) and Montreal (Quebec). Asian immigration – India, China and Pakistan – alone represents a third of new arrivals.
Canada also continues to welcome asylum seekers and refugees. In 2015, the country opened its doors to 25,000 Syrian refugees in less than a hundred days. After the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul, in August 2021, the government was committed to welcoming 40,000 Afghans, and half of them have already settled on Canadian territory.
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