While immigration adds to annual GDP, per capita GDP has grown only 2.4 per cent since the first quarter of 2016 compared to 11.7 per cent for the United States.

As of the end of July, just over half of the 2.4 million pending immigration applications have taken longer to process than the government's service standards dictate they should.

A House of Commons committee is calling for sweeping changes to the controversial temporary foreign workers program, including a faster path for citizenship for those with long-term work permits.