2020-02-10 – Canada admitted a new modern-era record of more than 341,000 new permanent residents in 2019, new government data shows.
The 341,180 immigrants welcomed last year was the second consecutive year Canada has admitted more than 300,000 immigrants. Before 2018, the last time Canada welcomed more than 300,000 immigrants was 1912.
The 2019 figure exceeds by 10,000 the targeted number of permanent residents laid out in the most recent immigration levels plan, submitted in October 2018.
With the plan being to continue to increase immigration, 2020 could see Canada exceed the milestone of 350,000 new immigrants in a calendar year.
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