Immigration Minister Christine Fréchette tabled a two-year immigration plan at the National Assembly Wednesday. It keeps immigration targets at a maximum of 50,000 people per year, despite calls from the business community to accept more. The province had been looking into the possibility of raising that target to 60,000 but says that’s just isn’t feasible. Global’s Franca Mignacca reports.
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