Immigrants: Immigration and Canada

immigrants: Some dream of a Big Canada, with large increases in immigration, according to Globe and Mail. But does evidence on the performance of economic immigrants to Canada confirm this hope, and the potential theoretical result, that more immigrants have meant better living standards Read more: Liberals to hold immigration level steady in 2017 Read more: Ottawa to make it easier for some businesses to import foreign talent Barrie McKenna: Immigration is not the only panacea for slowing growth in Canada The simple answer is no. On Monday, Immigration Minister John McCallum announced a target of 300,000 newcomers for 2017. No doubt, immigrants have contributed immensely to the Canadian economy, in general, and many more would do so in the future. Worse, this disadvantage has been growing over time, and the story is the same for men and women workers. But we also find that average earnings of an economic immigrant are considerably less than that of a comparable Canadian worker at the start of their working career and, even after many years of work, do not catch up, although the gap does shrink. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.