Citizenship And Immigration Minister Jason Kenney

Dept: Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the wait list at the end of 2012 was down to 616,271 from more than a million the year before, according to Vancouver Sun. Those measures include a moratorium on applications from immigrant investors and entrepreneurs, as well as parents and grandparents of immigrants and OTTAWA - The Harper government says it has reduced Canada's immigration backlog by 40 per cent. Kenney says there would have been more than two million people stuck in the queue by 2015 had the government not taken steps to deal with the problem. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.