Rehashing old immigration promise can’t disguise serious systemic problems

Making promises and signing agreements is just politics, implementing them is the real challenge, especially because it implies spending more money.

Angelo Persichilli writes that letting in more immigrants 'requires more money' to pay for things like hiring more people in the federal Immigration Ministry, currently headed by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen, pictured. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

November 6, 2017

TORONTO—There are two sets of immigration policies in Canada. The first is the one prepared by politicians to promote during the elections or in preparation of an election. The second is the real one, the one that nobody talks about, and, most likely, nobody cares about. In fact, voters have shor...

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