News Summary

• Ottawa is right to stem the flow of newcomers but it should be more transparent about its plans for different categories of migrants.
• The annual headline target of 380,000 new permanent residents (PRs) is misleading.
• It doesn’t count new “one-time initiatives” over the next two years to give permanent residency to another 115,000 protected persons and 33,000 temporary workers already living in Canada.
• It’s as if they’ve disappeared — removed from one column but not added to the other.