Diab Says Immigration Plan About Predictability, Doing the ‘Right Thing’

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to make the system more predictable while doing the “right thing” by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream. The levels plan, published Thursday, includes targets for 380,000 permanent residents and 370,000 new temporary residents annually through 2029, along with a pledge to make upwards of 200,000 longtime temporary residents permanent by the end of 2027. Between the one-time plan to give 200,000 additional people permanent residency and a similar plan in last year’s immigration plan, the government looks to add more than 600,000 permanent residents next year. Many of those people are already in Canada and have been here for years, officials said.