Canada's Institution of Immigration Needs to be an Independent Body, Away From Politics' and Liberals' Lack of Objective Science and Data

It's time to take politics and political parties out of the immigration equation while ignoring impacts on housing, wages, pensions, healthcare, education, infrastructure, long term employment and economic forecasts (not just today's needs) and all mostly borne by three major cities.  This institution needs to be treated with independence and reality it deserves versus the vote generating machine of hasty, politically driven, conveniently round numbers in the tens and hundreds of thousands lacking any demonstrated forecasts, information, studies, "data" or "science" to the Canadian public. 

More specifically, 42% (or 168,420) in 2021 had no mission or deliberate immigration process to Canada other than they were family of permanent residents/Canadians or were seeking to escape their own country as a refugee.   

"...The subsequent torrent of applications from students and temporary workers in Canada, coupled with the commitment to double the number of refugees coming from Afghanistan to 40,000, has resulted in bureaucratic resources becoming swamped. IRCC now has around 1.8 million applicants in a queue which is growing by about 20,000 every couple of months.

On refugees, no-one disagrees that Canada owes a duty of care to many people in Afghanistan but doubling the number of refugees from 20,000 to 40,000 will take two years to honour.

Andrew Griffith, a former director general at IRCC and author of a book on citizenship and immigration policy, said that the political choice to meet numerical targets, by allowing temporary residents to become permanent residents, meant that all other classes of immigrants became a lower priority. “It was a trade-off and, personally, I’m not convinced it was the right trade-off to make,” he said.

In 2021, 58 percent of new immigrants were drawn from economic class programs; 26 percent from family class; and 16 percent from refugee and humanitarian class.

But the 2023 numbers may look quite different, if the number of high-skilled workers drops off dramatically and the number of refugees rises..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-liberals-focus-on-numerical-targets-with-immigration-instead-of-where-need-is-greatest