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: McCallum comments come as the government prepares to table its 2016 immigration targets by March 9, outlining the anticipated number of new permanent residents Canada will welcome this year, according to Globe and Mail. This is a catch-all ASF view; only displays when an unsupported article type is put in an ASF drop zone In an interview with The Globe and Mail last week, the minister said the government will be expanding the pie to accommodate its ambitious Syrian refugee resettlement plan, which recently saw the arrival of the 25,000th Syrian since December. Mr. However, he said that there are limits to how much we can expand the pie, so there will always be trade-offs. If you let in more of one, you let in less of another, he said. We will be aiming for a relatively high level of total immigration, so to a degree, the additional refugees will be accommodated by a higher total, but … to some extent, it a zero-sum game. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.