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The Trudeau government is scrapping an unpopular lottery system for immigrants looking to reunite with their parents and grandparents and is increasing the number of sponsorship applications it will accept next year. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen will announce the changes today at an event in Vancouver. The changes, which will take effect in 2019, will replace the random selection process for sponsorship applications with a first-come-first-served application process. The so-called lottery system drew criticism when it was introduced last year after many potential sponsors said they felt it was unfair. Hussen says his department is responding to the feedback he received and will have more improvements to the program to announce this fall. Government will also accept more parent and grandparent sponsorship applications in 2019. The current cap of 17,000 applications will be increased to 20,000 next year.

Quebec City Mayor Régis Labeaume has called on the next provincial government to relax the rules for immigrants who have jobs lined up in the province, as the region is struggling with a severe workforce deficit. Labeaume has been writing up a list of priorities every year for the last decade, and this is the first time that immigration comes out on top. “There are 17,000 jobs available today on the North and South Shore [of Quebec City]. We don’t see how we could find the people for those jobs, so we need immigration, immigration, immigration,” Labeaume said at a news conference on Monday. In a 12-page document outlining his priorities, Labeaume said the city needs at least 5,300 more immigrants to join the workforce annually over the next five years. Quebec City currently takes in about six per cent of all the immigrants coming to the province, he said. “The minimum for us [should] be 10 per cent.” But Labeaume said it’s important that newcomers who move to Quebec City speak French. “We are talking about francophone immigration here because it’s a French city and there are two ways to succeed in immigration: to get a job and to speak the local language. So we have the jobs. If they speak French, it’s going to be a total success.” The mayor also called on the province to loosen the rules for workers who already have jobs lined up, describing some of them as “ridiculous.” For example, people with jobs waiting in Quebec must supply records of employment for all their past positions, and they have to translate those documents into French. “They have to relax the rules,” Labeaume said.

A new survey has found half of Canadians want to see the number of immigrants coming to Canada lowered. The Angus Reid Institute found 49 per cent of surveyed Canadians want to see the federal government’s 2018 target of 310,000 immigrants reduced. In 2014, 36 per cent said it should be reduced. In contrast, 31 per cent said the target should stay the same. Six per cent wanted to see more immigration

In a speech on Monday, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said Canada “needs immigrants,” adding that his “problem with immigration” as a former leader was that he couldn’t attract enough immigration.

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