10 Steps Trudeau Can Take Immediately To Improve Canadian Immigration

In the course of the recent Canadian election campaign Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau promised a variety of measures to improve Canada’s immigration system. For example, he proposed to adopt policies that would better facilitate family reunification by speeding up processing times and doubling the budget for that purpose. He promised to eliminate the two year wait time to get permanent residence for spouses of Canadians in the country and to double the yearly number of parents and grandparents who would be able to immigrate to Canada from 5000 to 10,000. He promised to provide extra points for siblings applying under Express Entry and to raise the age of dependents back to 22 from 19 years of age.