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Thu Oct 13, 8:11 PM ET
MONTREAL - Canada´s foreign affairs minister said Thursday that the country badly needed more immigrants to replace aging workers who are headed for retirement.
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Pierre Pettigrew said that increasing the population to 40 million by welcoming more immigrants would help foot the bill for new infrastructure, such as roads and bridges.
"This is a vast country, the infrastructure is expensive and it´s a bigger country than the United States is," Pettigrew said. "I am saying that if we were 40 million Canadians, that infrastructure would not be necessarily a lot more expensive, but we would be more (people) to foot the bill."
The minister, in comments to reporters after a speech in Montreal, said Canada was built by immigrants and that´s the way it would continue to be built.
Canada´s population of just under 32 million has grown by only three million in the past decade. The federal government is set to unveil a new immigration plan this month that would open its doors to 320,000 skilled immigrants a year by the time the plan is fully implemented in five years.
[14-10-2005,15:32]
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SK |
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(in reply to: Cheers Guys !!)
Cheers for what? The plan won´t be implemented for another 5 years. This does not affect the current conditions.
[14-10-2005,16:24]
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(in reply to: Cheers Guys !!)
The plan will be implemented gradually over the next five years. The changes do not take effect in five years, so I say cheers as well, there are too many people in the waiting game, because there are more applicants than PR visas available. Making more PR visa´s available next year would mean that an addition 10k people will get in next year.
[14-10-2005,22:58]
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