Canada welcomes historic number of over 430K newcomers in 2022

The Canadian government is attributing their quick recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic to its historic number of newcomers last year.

Sean Fraser, minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship, announced in a statement Tuesday that Canada has reached its goal of welcoming 431,645 permanent residents in 2022.

The government says it has surpassed its previous record from 1913, marking the most newcomers in a year in Canadian history.

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“Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) processed approximately 5.2 million applications for permanent residence, temporary residence and citizenship,” the federal government said in the statement.

“That’s double the number of applications processed in 2021.”

IRCC also plans to welcome more newcomers, “these changes are all important improvements to Canada’s immigration system, which will position us well for the future.”

Immigration accounts for nearly 100 per cent of Canada’s labour growth and roughly 75 per cent of the country’s population growth comes from immigration.

The Feds say immigrants will represent up to 30 per cent of Canada’s population by 2036, compared to 20.7 per cent in 2011.

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