Record numbers moved to Canada in 2007

[Marnie]

A record 429,649 foreigners came to live in Canada last year, the interior ministry said Friday, claiming the success of the government's program to bring in immigrants to address labor shortages. "These numbers show that our immigration program is responding to Canada's needs, particularly our economic needs," said immigration minister Diane Finley.

But the opposition liberals accused the government of inflating the figures with temporary workers and students. According to the ministry, almost 30 percent of those admitted to the country in 2007, some 178,000 people, came on a temporary basis.

More than 251,000 permanent residency permits were issued in 2007, within the target range of 240,000 and 265,000, the ministry added.

The figures were released as the conservative government announced plans to "speed up the processing of permanent resident applications, ensuring shorter wait times and making Canada's immigration system more competitive."

More than 900,000 foreigners are currently waiting for the immigration ministry to process their applications to come to Canada. Some have been waiting up to six years, conservative lawmaker Paul Forseth admitted to parliament.

But opposition lawmaker David McGuinty charged that the new plans -- on which no details were given -- were intended to "considerably reduce the number of newcomers."

He also said Friday's "falsely inflated" figures were trying to distract from that.

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[Ddavid from NC]

It happens every four years I bet or when the draft is mentioned

[chimoku]

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Canada, like many other western nations , has legalized abortion.

As a result our birth rate has dropped appreciably so that we are about EVEN - with a O population growth.

What a shock !!!!!!! duhhhhh

Becuase population is dropping - for instance, School Districts are closing schools en masse. The School District I was working in last year closed 3 Elementary Schools and merged 2 High Schools.

O - ZERO- POPULATION GROWTH IS NOT GOOD FOR THE ECONOMY. NOT GOOD FOR THE VIABILITY OF A NATION.

As a result Canada has relaxed its immigration policies.

In the last 7 years there has been a deluge of immigrants into Canada - because of

the Canadian life style,

he high standard of living ( homes are affordable, there jobs, 'free' public education, plenty of food, low crime),

the 'relatively' Free Enterprise system,

the Constitutional protection of Human and Civil rights,

Socialized medicine ( [i]mark that***** - its inferiour to the USA's & Japans however)

. . . ..- all of which are lacking in most of the countries the immgrants come from (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE USA and the UNITED KIGDOM, of course)

Here are the stats for the top 10 counries from the recent census polls ( for 2001 -2007)

Mainland China - 155,000

India-129,000

Philippines - 80,000

Pakistan 58,000

USA 39,000

So. Korea 36,000

Romania 28,000

Iran 28,000

United Kigdon -26,000

Columbia - 25,000

This is Canada's answer to the consequences of legalized abortion, IMO. (The same is happening over here in Japan where I live now )

Its fine: may the immigrants settle and prosper -

It has been a tremendous opportunity for Christian outreach In Canada and THAT is definitely the upside - rather than send the missionary to the mission field: the mission field has come to the missionary.

[Guest]

Amen!

[Guest astral]

Maybe I should move there XD

[Lost in Sin]

I love snow, so its obvious with the Global warming why people wanta come play in it.

[O'Dannyboy]

And with fewer people they have to raise taxes to make up the difference right? Seems to be the same problem here in the U.S. Since we are too busy aborting our children why not import them from nations who DON'T or can't afford to abort their children. We've got roughly 12 million "undocumented" immigrants here that Canada is welcome to.

[Shad]

I think a lot of the U.S. citizens moving there are doing so either because they are fed up with the U.S. Govt. and the uncertain future with who will be president because let's face it we all know it's either going to be Hillary or Obama and that presents a huge problem the U.S. has never had to deal with and that is either a Woman or a Black Person running the country and to a lot of people they see this as a lose lose situation then you have those who are going to Canada because they hear they have free health care which isn't totally true and they think waiting times in the ER in the states is bad they haven't seen anything not to mention that are some places in Canada that don't have enough doctors to care for all the patients that show up at the slightest sign of a cold because after all it's free so why not?? Some towns are so bad that they have to hold a raffle type event just to see who gets to see a doctor.

So while things may seem better on the outside the grass isn't always greener on the other side.