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Canada has launched a new program to attract highly skilled immigrants, including specialized military recruits, as it moves to overhaul a system the government says had become unsustainable.<\/p>\n
Canada has for decades been a top destination for economic migrants from the developing world, but in 2024 then-prime minister Justin Trudeau said too many people had been let in too quickly, straining the health care system and housing stocks.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney has echoed Trudeau\u2019s message, saying in October that his government was \u201cgetting immigration under control\u201d while promising to bring in migrants with the skills needed to boost a Canadian economy facing unprecedented threats from U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n
Carney on Tuesday announced a half-trillion-dollar plan ($365 billion) to upgrade Canada\u2019s military and defence-related infrastructure over the coming decade, a massive spending program he says will spur broad economic growth.<\/p>\n
His immigration minister, Lena Metlege Diab, on Wednesday unveiled a new scheme she said would help \u201cattract the best talent to Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are creating a new category for skilled military recruits to attract highly skilled foreign military applicants,\u201d Diab said, specifying that this group includes doctors, nurses and pilots.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis new category will support our government\u2019s commitment to strengthen our armed forces, to defend our sovereignty and to keep Canadians safe,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Diab said Ottawa would be proactive in finding the workers it wants to safeguard Canada in an era the prime minister has defined as increasingly dangerous, with the U.S.-led rules-based international order crumbling.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not waiting for the right people to find us. We will go out into the world to recruit the people our country needs,\u201d Diab said.<\/p>\n
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