Provinces want to ensure supports are in place for immigration boost
WINNIPEG — Discussions are ongoing about how to best accommodate and support a rising number of immigrants that is driven in large part by Syrian refugees, say federal, provincial and territorial immigration ministers.
“I know that many provinces have expressed the same concern … regarding, when you get to the end of the federal support, what happens and what are the responsibilities,” Manitoba’s Ian Wishart said Wednesday after a closed-door meeting in Winnipeg.
“We are certainly all prepared to work with the federal government on this.”
Some 321,000 immigrants arrived in Canada in the twelve months leading up to July 1, according to Statistics Canada. The agency said it was the largest number of immigrants in an annual period since the early 1910s, when a wave of European immigrants arrived in the western provinces.