As a result, it is changing the standards for who can gain entry
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THE PAST year of lockdowns and travel restrictions has been terrible for migrants. In the first six months of 2020 members of the OECD, a club mainly of rich countries, issued half as many residence permits as they did the year before, a record decline. But one country is determined to buck the trend. In October Canada’s government said it hoped to admit 1.2m new residents from 2021 to 2023, equivalent to 3% of the population. The targets for this year and next are a total of 100,000 higher than originally planned.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “A wider welcome”
From the April 24th 2021 edition
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