Canada Immigration Minister: Citizenship And Immigration

Immigration Applications Dept: "Canada is the most generous country in the world with respect to immigration ... but there have to be practical limits to our generosity," Kenney said after speaking at an often-heated citizenship and immigration committee meeting, according to Montreal Gazette. Kenney's comments came after NDP immigration critic Don Davies suggested in an Oct. 14 letter to Kenney that Ottawa set a target of issuing 289,000 to 336,000 total permanent residency visas for 2012 and the Conservative government aims to cut down a heavy immigration backlog by capping the number of parents and grandparents of immigrants who can come to Canada, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Thursday. The backlog, or total number of immigration applications still waiting to be processed, is now more than a million names long, according to immigration officials. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.