Canada will welcome 25,000 parents and grandparents as immigrants next year, despite concerns about the economic impact of targeting older rather than younger immigrants. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the federal government has decided to “bite the bullet” on family reunification in order to reduce a backlog of applications that had grown unmanageable. “I don’t suggest that this is an economic benefit to Canada,” Mr. Kenney said. “We have a certain commitment to family reunification as one element of our immigration program, but as I’ve said it has to be limited because of fiscal constraints.”
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