FEWER INDIANS TO GET VISA POWER AS CANADA CUTS TARGET
The Morning Standard|October 26, 2024
The muddled Trudeau government has decided to slash its immigrant intake by about 20% from the next year so as to right-size its population.
MAYANK SINGH
FEWER INDIANS TO GET VISA POWER AS CANADA CUTS TARGET

While Trudeau had earlier announced he would allow 5 lakh immigrants each in 2025 and 2026, he admitted that after the pandemic, "between addressing labour needs and maintaining population growth, we didn't get the balance right."

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