TORONTO, ON — Daniel Bernhard, CEO of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship made the following statement following the conclusion of the three-day Council of the Federation gathering in Huntsville:

The Premiers’ insistence on increasing immigration levels to meet local economic needs simply demonstrates how unhelpful it is to set arbitrary immigration caps for mostly political reasons that in many respects operate independently from economic reality. A better system would do a better job of quickly understanding real needs in the economy and setting targets to meet them. A better system would also do a better job of ensuring skilled immigrants find work addressing the needs they were selected to address, and reverse declining retention rates for skilled immigrants, so they stay to build our economy instead of a competitor’s. 

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