press release

July 31, 2012, 10:51 a.m. EDT
CIC Launches National Consultations on Immigration Levels and Mix

TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jul 31, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)’s Parliamentary Secretaries Chungsen Leung and Rick Dykstra have launched a series of cross-country consultations on immigration issues, beginning today in Toronto.

The two Parliamentary Secretaries will be meeting with stakeholders and the public to discuss the appropriate level and mix of immigration for Canada in the coming years. Since 2006, the Government of Canada has welcomed the highest sustained levels of immigration in Canadian history.
Following the Toronto session today hosted by Parliamentary Secretary Leung, meetings with stakeholders will take place in Windsor, Vancouver, Halifax and Ottawa. As of today, online consultations are also open to the public and stakeholders for input.

The purpose of the consultations is to seek feedback on immigration issues, including the appropriate level of immigration for Canada, and the most suitable mix among economic, family, and refugee and humanitarian classes. Discussions with the Parliamentary Secretaries will also touch on CIC’s transition towards a faster and more flexible immigration system, as well as the growing importance of immigration to Canada’s economic growth and long-term prosperity.

In planning for the total number of people to admit as permanent residents, CIC must not only balance the Government of Canada’s immigration objectives, but also consider broader government commitments, input from provinces and territories, and current and future economic conditions. The Department must also take into account its operational ability to process applications in a timely manner, as well as the capacity of communities to welcome newcomers.

These consultations present an important opportunity to generate greater public understanding of the difficult decisions involved in managing a global immigration system. There are competing visions and diverging goals for the future of the immigration program, and there are no easy answers. Engaging stakeholders and the broader public is key to CIC’s development of an overall strategy for Canada moving forward.

Invited stakeholders represent a variety of perspectives, including those of employers, labour, academia, learning institutions, professional organizations, business organizations, regulatory bodies, municipalities, Aboriginal groups, settlement provider organizations and ethnocultural organizations.

The online consultations are open for input until August 31, 2012. Interested participants can find more information at: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/consultations/index.asp .

A summary report of the stakeholder and public consultations will be available on the CIC website once completed.

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  • Euonymus

    Anyone who will be there?

  • http://www.facebook.com/harry.schneider1 Harry Schneider

    Immigrants should have an above average IQ level. We do not need more dummys or criminals, we already have enough of those.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XJ3PDTMXOPAUKGQ62S7MU2BNIA Cecil

    As an example, here are my comments to the Immigration Survey.

    Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everyone — NO!!!! This is geNOcide.

    Since the 1960′s, Canada has been admitting mostly immigrants from the Third World, rather than taking immigrants that replicate the country’s existing ethnic mix. The reason—someone dislikes the ethnic majority and wants its position altered to its detriment. At the same time, people from the countries that sent immigrants to this country for its first several centuries have been barred. The vast majority of immigrants now come from the third world– a word apart racially and culturally.

    In white countries when you force/coerce/ socially engineer IMMIGRATION, integration, tolerance & blending of races, in the end you have a non-white population left.just a matter of time. Its white genocide.

    “Genocide involves the attempt to achieve the disappearance of a group by whatever means. It does not have to be violent, it could be a combination of policies that would lead to a certain group dying out.”

    M Fraser-PM of Australia 1975-83

    Liberals and ethnic activists boast about how Canada would be better if it were more ‘diverse’ (ie non-European), but no one else is allowed to say, “We like the ethnic mix as it is.”

    That would be ‘racist’.

    DIVERSITY is just a codeword for anti-white. More diverse = less white. How much more offensive can you get??? Anti-racist is just a codeword for anti-white. Diversity means Genocide.

    Which means that the program of doing away with all white people to the point where Europe and North America are to be majority non-white in this century requires a lot more than merely changing this policy.

    What Canadians mostly desire is to be left alone with their customary way of life—to not have demographic revolution imposed on them. To the degree that it has been, probably irreversibly, they feel resentment and anger. Those responsible will be held to account.

    The white Canadian whom this panel would like to exclude from their nation’s politics are similarly disposed. They wish no harm to the people of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Africa, Arabia, and the black Caribbean. They just wish those people stay in their own countries. And they resent their not having done so.

    Is there anything wrong with it?

    Not that I can see. Not unless you are for the Genocide and ethnic dispossession of whites. Some of you are.

    Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White countries for Everyone— NO!!!! This is geNOcide.