Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Federal Government

Skilled Worker Dept: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says changes to the Skilled Worker Program and the Immigrant Investor Program will reduce backlog, according to CBC. But some question the timing of the announcement, which Kenney made in Calgary Thursday and the federal government has placed a temporary freeze on applications to two immigration programs. We're not reducing the number of immigrants, he said. We're just reducing the number of applications going into a queue." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.