Minister: Morneau and Panel

minister: Finance Minister Bill Morneau, according to Huffington Post Canada. An economic panel advising Morneau is expected to recommend to him raising immigration levels to 450,000 a year. Canada has been taking in roughly 250,000 to 300,000 immigrants annually in recent years, but the panel advising Finance Minister Bill Morneau will urge him to increase that number to 450,000 annually, the newspaper reported. The 14-member panel, chaired by Dominic Barton of the firm McKinsey and Co., is to deliver a set of recommendations to Morneau on Thursday. But, when asked about it, Immigration Minister John McCallum seemed to balk at the large number that the panel will propose, saying it may be too ambitious. The federal Liberals have recently suggested increasing immigration levels and opening the doors further to foreign students and investment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.