Canada's Minister of Immigration, John McCallum, stated his belief that most Canadians want to boost the overall number of immigrants coming to Canada.
The government is scheduled to announce Canada’s new immigration targets in November, 2016, in the annual immigration levels plan. The previous plan, which was unveiled earlier this year, had the highest projected immigration level in decades, with an increase of about 20,000 in the total number of new permanent residents to be admitted year over year. This represented around a 7 percent increase on the 2015 plan.
