Record number of permanent residents accepted amid push to bring more immigrants to Canada
Canada accepted 97.5 per cent of economic permanent residents in 2021, up from 80.6 per cent in 2005
Hannah Carty is a Toronto-based reporter at the Investigative Journalism Foundation. She got into journalism at The Varsity, the University of Toronto’s tri-campus student newspaper, where she worked as the news editor and editor-in-chief. Currently, she serves as an Ontario Representative of the Canadian University Press, a national student news service. She also has a degree in English and History from U of T, and frequents Toronto’s parks in her spare time.
Canada accepted 97.5 per cent of economic permanent residents in 2021, up from 80.6 per cent in 2005