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Canada's Immigration Policy Summary

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This article discusses how we are able to analyze recent policy changes from the development of Canada’s immigration policy. The main goal was to understand the objectives of the current policy, how it relates to the economy, and who the policy affects. According to the article, the country’s immigration policy has a history of wanting to use immigration for long and short term goals like economic growth and adjusting to current labor market conditions. Canada’s immigration has drastically changed from what it used to be after abandoning and adopting different concepts. An example would be the “absorptive capacity” concept that was abandoned after realizing it doesn’t truly help the long-term goals it originally was thought to be. The current

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