Immigration Minister Jason Kenney: Minister Of Citizenship

Permanent Residents Dept: OTTAWA - Canada will keep its intake of immigrants the same for the seventh straight year, admitting between 240,000 and 265,000 permanent residents in 2013, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Wednesday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Instead, they'll be increasing the number of people accepted under the Canada Experience Class program by about 10,000 people and jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, speaks with media following the tabling of the 2013 Immigration Levels Plan on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday Oct. 31, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Those numbers include a cut to the federal skilled worker program, with the government planning to admit fewer people under that policy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.