Immigration Minister Sean Fraser’s new plan, tabled late Monday, includes 431,645 target arrivals in 2022, 447,055 in 2023 and 451,000 in 2024, equivalent to around one per cent of the country’s population in each of those years. That’s 46,700 more over the first two years than the government had previously projected. (The Logic)

Talking point: About 57 per cent of those admitted will come through the economically motivated stream that’s designed to meet Canada’s need for workers. Over the next two years, Ottawa will prioritize letting temporary residents already here on work, study and other time-limited permits stay permanently, with 72,000 spaces allotted to the program. Those slots come at the expense of the Federal Skilled Worker stream, for which the government has already paused new invitations due to processing backlogs. On Monday, Fraser also tabled completed figures for 2020, showing the number of temporary foreign workers, international students and new permanent residents all fell significantly in the pandemic-hit year.