GEO 231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Population Ageing, Human Capital, Per Capita Income
16 Nov 2017
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In november 2016, the minister of immigration, refugee and citizenship of. Canada john mccallum announced that the level of immigration for 2017 would be the same as in 2016, at 300,000. (the average number of immigrants accepted in 2013, 2014 and 2015 was 260,000. ) This target disappointed a number of national interest groups, which recommended that canada accept more immigrants. In october 2016, the conference board of canada released a study report. In that report, the conference board looked into the impacts of population ageing, and concluded that canada needs to raise the level of immigration gradually to 400,000 by 2030 (13 years from now) to offset the impacts of ageing. For a long time, the issues of immigration levels have always divided the. Canadians. absorb and settle the large number of newcomers, national security, and the dilution of the canadian values with the influx of immigrants.
