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Canada: The "trick" side of this announcement is that it is essentially the same number as for the previous five years of the Harper government. There is tinkering within the total as the sub categories are marginally adjusted, but the overall effect is about the same. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. We are left with a controlled growth strategy for now and perhaps a population maintenance strategy in the longer term as we look down the road to a time when deaths will significantly exceed births as the population ages. Why doesn't Canada return to the strategy that once helped build this nation -- allowing the sponsoring here of family members, as permanent and not temporary, immigrants? Each year around Halloween, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration minister is required by law to present to Parliament his immigration plan for the coming year. This is a good news event, a "treat," and on Oct. 28, Minister Chris Alexander announced the target for 2014 would be in the range of 240,000-265,000 immigrants. As is becoming apparent to many Canadians, the demand to immigrate here far exceeds the annual spaces allowed. Yet immigration policy within the context of Canada's future seems still to be something that our political parties approach gingerly, if at all. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.