New immigration regulations in three Atlantic provinces of Canada

On Monday (65438+1October 1 1), the governors of the three Atlantic provinces jointly issued a statement calling on the federal government to pay attention to the problems of population aging and population decline in the three provinces, increase the number of immigrants in the three provinces, and fight against population aging. Among them, the former governor of New Brunswick proposed to implement new immigration regulations, requiring new immigrants to live in three provinces before applying for immigration. Wade MacLauchlan, Governor of Prince Edward Island, expressed the hope that the province's immigration policy would be consistent with other provinces in Canada. He expressed support for Frank McKenna, the former governor of New Brunswick, who had previously expressed support for increasing immigration to deal with the two major problems of population aging and low fertility rate.

In 20 14, the death rate in New Brunswick was higher than the birth rate. To this end, McKenna warned that the provincial government should be vigilant, because the aging population will inevitably bring many problems, and the decrease of population will also lead to the reduction of tax revenue, the reduction of health and education funds and the imbalance of fairness.

Mcnair also said that immigrants from Atlantic provinces only accounted for 2.5% of the total number of immigrants in the country.

He said:? Immigrants flocked to immigrant settlements, and they all settled in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. If we want to break this pattern, we can only use very strong drugs. ? Mcnair said that the federal government should establish a special program for Atlantic provinces, stipulating that immigrants should live there for three to five years. Be naturalized. He said that forcing Canadian citizens to settle in a province is a violation of the freedom of movement stipulated in the Constitution. But constitutional scholars believe that immigrants apply for naturalization. That's a reasonable rule.