Canada always welcomes a huge number of immigrants to keep its economy healthy. Canada is suffering from a low rate of natural population growth which results in a low rate of labor power and economic growth. It is difficult for Canada to raise its taxes; it needs to support social spending on services such as education, health care, and other important sectors that provide high living standards in the country. As a result, Canada has been working on its immigration levels since the late 1980s to increase its population rate, labor power and economic growth. Based on its demographic realities and Canadian immigration trends, it appears likely that Canada will continue to gradually increase its immigration levels over the foreseeable future. Canada immigration will remain a cultural and fiscal situation in the country.

Moreover, a powerful argument is created that immigration’s importance has been raised thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19 has weakened the Canadian economy in the short run and raised government spending on social services. Additionally, Canada’s birth rate fell to its lowest level ever of 1.47 children per woman in 2019. The low birth rate before the pandemic, and also the chance the pandemic can scale back the birth rate even further due to economic uncertainty. Canada can become even more dependent on immigration for its growth in the coming years. If Canada’s birth rate remains low, then immigration will comprise an even larger share of labor power growth in the decades to come. Canada will need to strengthen its tax base through immigration to support government spending following the pandemic.

On November 1, 2022, in Toronto, The Honorable Sean Fraser, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship released Canada’s 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan. This immigration plan embraces immigration as a strategy to help businesses find workers and to attract the skills required in key areas like health care, skilled trades, manufacturing and technology to maintain the social and economic challenge. Canada will face this in the decades ahead.

Last year Canada welcomed over 405,000 newcomers – the foremost they’ve ever welcomed during a single year. The government is continuing that ambition by setting targets within the new levels plan of 465,000 permanent residents in 2023, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025. The plan conjointly brings an increased focus on attracting newcomers to completely different regions of the country, including small towns and rural communities.