http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/immigration-system-increase-mccallum-1.3812749

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A high-powered group of external advisers is calling for a dramatic increase in Canada's immigration levels, but Immigration Minister John McCallum says that might be too ambitious.

McCallum said Wednesday he's read the report by the Advisory Council on Economic Growth that calls for a 50-per-cent increase in targets to 450,000 people a year.

The measure would target skilled, entrepreneurial newcomers in an attempt to stimulate economic growth.

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The 14-member panel, chaired by Dominic Barton of the firm McKinsey and Co., is to deliver a set of recommendations to Finance Minister Bill Morneau on Thursday.

McCallum said meeting the target suggested by Barton's group would be costly and might not find broad national support.

"The figure he gives is a huge figure," McCallum said. "But this is not a universal view across the country."

Discussions are continuing and the government will announce immigration targets for 2017 next month, McCallum added.

McCallum's cabinet colleague, Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains, told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that he's "worked very closely" with Barton's panel, and favours increased immigration levels. But he stopped short of endorsing the target in Barton's report.

"Clearly he's demonstrating an opportunity for Canada," Bains said. "We value our diversity, we value our multicultural society and we recognize immigration is an opportunity to create jobs."

The need for skilled labour

Bains said the government would need to sell the idea of higher immigration levels to the public.

"We, as a government, need to focus on communicating the benefits of growing the economy and part of that growth is investing in people and part of that equation is immigration."

Bains said bringing in more skilled workers is part of the government's broader agenda that includes investing in research and development, creating jobs and helping companies grow.

A survey released by Canadian Manufactures and Exporters said the most pressing challenge facing its member companies is "attracting or retaining skilled labour."

The response came from a survey and roundtable discussions with 1,300 member companies.

Matthew Wilson, the organization's senior vice president, said manufacturers have traditionally looked beyond Canada's border to find skilled workers.

"If we can expand that, that's good," he said in an interview.

Slower growth ahead

But the government needs to do more to make sure the immigrants they allow into Canada actually have skills that are needed, Wilson added.

"Just bringing in more immigrants isn't going to solve the skills-gap problem if they don't have the skills Canadian companies need."

The continuing need to address the country's sluggish economy was underscored Wednesday as the Bank of Canada downgraded its growth prediction.

The bank's latest outlook projected a real GDP expansion of 1.1 per cent this year, down from its earlier 1.3 per cent forecast.

Governor Stephen Poloz listed immigration as "one of the ingredients" for helping to reverse declining growth.

© The Canadian Press, 2016 

I can't believe McCallum had those thoughts. He must be drying out. Has anyone ever explained how "diversity" has helped Canada? I don't ever remember it being mentioned during Oshawa's Fiesta Week during its heydey.

Some talk on the CBC this morning & the reporter said most immigrants settle in the big cities, which doesn't help declining populations in rural & small town Canada. The reason those populations are declining is that there are no jobs there. Why would it make sense to plunk immigrants down in areas of unemployment? In Apsley, Asians already own the motel/restaurant and the "general store". I can't think of any other businesses they'd be interested in.  

he spent days propping up PP says everyone loves him he is OUR GUY

I work for PP isn't even hidden anymore

This BIAS news sure does EVEN CBC AGAINST LIBERALS often quoted daily that they are anti Liberal

Do you see how fucked up these BOTs are? wow

Such an economic genius

1 hour ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Such an economic genius

we have treated them so poorly

one good thing is you have no forgotten about THE EPSTIEN FILES

He is your hero

Carnage was the man that was gonna get us the deal

Genius

9 hours ago, toslow said:

Carnage was the man that was gonna get us the deal

Funny how you keep repeating that?

Even more so just imagine TRUMP bowing to PP if that was the case, PP would have 10 deals with TRUMP all in our favour

Show me one video of Carney stating HE IS THE ONLy ONE TO GET A DEAL

You are a sheep for THE RIGHT WING HATE GROUP

Edited July 21Jul 21 by 1trailmaker

9 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

Genius

how much have they invested? any idea? or are you just repeating what you think you should?

Which of these contracts do not benefit Canada?

You can't answer one question I am betting

I assume you ToSlow and AC maybe OLDSLEDDER all think we should cave and allow MILK products and more to enter Canada.

Making TRUMP mad is so wrong eh!

Demand DOUG give us our USA booze, it is terrible what Doug is doing to DON we LOVE TRUMP

46 minutes ago, 1trailmaker said:

I assume you ToSlow and AC maybe OLDSLEDDER all think we should cave and allow MILK products and more to enter Canada.

Making TRUMP mad is so wrong eh!

Demand DOUG give us our USA booze, it is terrible what Doug is doing to DON we LOVE TRUMP

I don't give a shit about the quebec dairy cartel, fuck them. Open up the market just like every other country has.

59 minutes ago, ArcticCrusher said:

I don't give a shit about the quebec dairy cartel, fuck them. Open up the market just like every other country has.

Interesting

Farmers go broke in USA they don't here All make profit every year without fail - wonder why that is?

Why do they dump millions of litres of Milk?

Like stated many times here You don't know have the knowledge to deal with these economic matters, you just follow what TRUMP says

LYING Lantsman

All of the Prime Ministers actions are record for public viewing

what a fucking JOKE this CPC has beome

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news

2 hours ago, 1trailmaker said:

Funny how you keep repeating that?

Even more so just imagine TRUMP bowing to PP if that was the case, PP would have 10 deals with TRUMP all in our favour

Show me one video of Carney stating HE IS THE ONLy ONE TO GET A DEAL

You are a sheep for THE RIGHT WING HATE GROUP

You seem pretty confident about that.

want to make a bet that there is a video of carnage saying it

9 hours ago, toslow said:

You seem pretty confident about that.

want to make a bet that there is a video of carnage saying it

PP has several of himself saying Carney said it

Having said that do you really think PP would have handled things differently? working TRUMP over?

What are you thoughts

I fact it is PP that says he is THE GUY

OUR GUY IS AWESOME

10 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

I don't give a shit about the quebec dairy cartel, fuck them. Open up the market just like every other country has.

I agree as long as Canada puts tariffs on American dairy products equal to the subsidies the American dairy farmers receive.

28 minutes ago, yamadan700 said:

I agree as long as Canada puts tariffs on American dairy products equal to the subsidies the American dairy farmers receive.

It's not just the US. They're protected from every other country. Canadians have no idea what they're missing in product selection

Sooooo, Carney is throwing $2B at a company in London to build 190 armored vehicles for the military. 5 of the parts suppliers are US companies that he has investments in, and 35 of the vehicles are going to the Ukraine.....to help take back the Nuclear power plant captured by the Russians that Brookfield is heavily invested in. Elbow Deep!!!

1 hour ago, toslow said:

Sooooo, Carney is throwing $2B at a company in London to build 190 armored vehicles for the military. 5 of the parts suppliers are US companies that he has investments in, and 35 of the vehicles are going to the Ukraine.....to help take back the Nuclear power plant captured by the Russians that Brookfield is heavily invested in. Elbow Deep!!!

Holy shit dude you have really been bitten

1 hour ago, toslow said:

Do you really think Carney would release his obvious diabetically plan to make Brookfield money, as Carney does not own or work for Brookfield and was never head of and never moved the business to USA - it was not his to move

Pretty sad when we have a plan to increase our military equipment and help our men and women in service - you post hate and nonsense

How much will Carney make off this deal? tell the class

3 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

It's not just the US. They're protected from every other country. Canadians have no idea what they're missing in product selection

Your lack of understanding is showing

11 hours ago, ArcticCrusher said:

It's not just the US. They're protected from every other country. Canadians have no idea what they're missing in product selection

You are not very smart your knowledge is at a grade 1 level

TRUMP LIES DAILY

The U.S. is a net exporter of dairy to Canada, with U.S. dairy exports to Canada valued between USD $800 million and $1.3 billion annually. By contrast, the U.S. imports a significantly smaller amount of Canadian dairy, typically around USD $300 to $390 million per year

BOW TO TRUMP AC ToSlow already do so should you