Canada May Re-Evaluate Immigration Targets, Says Housing Minister Sean Fraser
Sean Fraser, the former immigration minister for Canada and current minister of housing, has suggested that the federal government may think about changing the nation’s historically high immigration levels targets.
In an interview with Vassy Kapelos for CTV’s Question Period, Sean Fraser said, “When we look to the future of immigration levels planning, we want to maintain ambition and immigration, but we want to better align our immigration policies with the absorptive capacity of communities, that includes housing, that includes health care, that includes infrastructure.”
The federal government has “some work to do” with its temporary immigration programmes, which run in a “uncapped way” based on demand, according to Fraser, who went on to elaborate on the suggestion described above.
