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While Canada is working on its immigration policy there are a few interesting points in an article from Russia:

Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe said the government was set to unveil sweeping changes to Canada's immigration policy Monday, including plans to take in as many as 300,0000 new immigrants annually within the next five years. Canada is on track to accept 245,000 immigrants this year, the high end of last year's target.

Volpe said Ottawa plans to increase temporary workers to tackle the enormous backlog of 700,000 prospective immigrants. He said would-be newcomers currently face waits of as long as four years to have their applications processed in Canadian missions around the world.

People want into Canada so bad that they are willing to wait four years to be processed. Hopefully this can be speeded up, it will help Canada's prosperity too.