Ottawa's Most Wanted

            Canadian Immigration policy has been ever changing since the idea of Canadian citizenship was introduced with the immigration act in 1910 (Brender 2013).  The procedure of immigration of new Canadians into the country has many holes in it that need to be addressed for the security, prosperity, and growth of Canada in the future. With Canada’s reputation of being a very accepting, and welcoming country it has short comings that lead to new immigrants taking advantage of the system and abusing the hands that feed them.  Canada accepted 250,000 new immigrants last year, all of which fell into Canada’s 4 main categories family class, economic class, other, or refugee (Brender 2013). This is up from 101,000 ten years prior. This is due mainly to economic need and demand. 

            Canadian immigration has become in the resent years plagued with 2 main problems, abuse of the 'refugee' system and design and abuse of the 'family reunification' and sponsorship route (Keung 2013). Both have burden out system and cost taxpayers millions, as well as adding to the growing unemployment among new immigrants. The refugee problem is one that the government is starting to take steps towards fixing but has had major problems such as boats landing off the coast of British Columbia begging for safety and sanctuary.  This clogs our system and creates bag log for good, skillful, much needed immigrants (Keung 2013). The other is Family reunification is one that many incoming governments have promised to fix and reevaluate.  This happens when a family takes in family members, be it, mother, father, son or daughter and bring them to join them in Canada. This is one that can be taken advantage of with things such as fake marriages (Keung 2013).  Again this is a burden to our system and is a major flaw that needs to be readdressed.