Canada has big immigration goals. Will we really do the work to meet them?

In today’s Big Story podcast, many think of Canada as a promised land for immigrants from all over the world. That’s because Canada literally needs newcomers to survive. As much as we love that image, it’s not altruistic. Right now, we have the political and popular will to sustain big immigration targets and Canada ranks among the top destinations in the world for immigrants. That’s a great place to start from.

The question, though, is what are we doing to make sure immigrants will continue to want to come here? To attract the workers in sectors that we need the most? To make sure the infrastructure that already struggles, can accommodate another half million new Canadians, and do it well? And then again?

GUEST: Rupa Banerjee, Canada Research Chair in Economic Inclusion, Employment and Entrepreneurship of Canada’s Immigrants, associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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