Economic-Class Immigrants: Immigration and Morneau Favourite

economic-class immigrants: Feds' advisers share recipe for growth: investment, immigration, infrastructure New Liberal immigration baseline: 300,000 next year, with more in future years This flies in the face of advice McCallum colleague, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, has only just received from some of Morneau favourite smart people, the Advisory Council on Economic Growth, according to The Chronicle Herald. Led by globe-trotting consultant Dominic Barton, the panel interim report suggests a 50-per-cent increase in immigration over five years - led by a doubling in economic-class immigrants over the same period. Enter John McCallum, the minister of immigration, who has decided after long consideration that Canada immigration levels are - well, pretty good, actually. This is not merely a matter of national pride or a vague sense that the more people who can call themselves Canadian the better, Barton argues. Boosting immigration is part of Barton plan to give every Canadian family a $15,000 pay raise by 2030. It a necessary remedy to the slow aging of Canada population and the difficulty Canadian firms have attracting senior and specialized talent. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.