カナダ政府は高齢化と技術者の不足で、 2010年まで移民者数を約 40% 増やす方針って、先週発表されたらしいけど本当なの？
誰か、証拠となるソース見つけてくれませんか？

トピ主です。自己解決したので、一応、皆さんにも報告します。

http://www.thestar.com/
トロントスターのサイトで、左上の 7days search で
immigration と入れてサーチすると、見つかるはずです。
２４日付の記事で、
Ottawa to throw open doors to immigrantsです。
無料の会員登録をすると、すぐに詳しい記事が読めますよ。

Canada to welcome 100,000 more immigrants each year

らしいです。
詳しくは、１０月にカナダ政府から公式発表されるらしいです。
理由は、高齢者の人口増加、低い出生率の補充、技術職不足補充らしいです。 　

トピ主さんの言っている記事の内容は、先日のVancouverSunの記事と同じ内容ですか？
以下、VancouverSunより転記します。

It’s doubtful that Ottawa can get it right on immigration

Vancouver Sun

Thursday, September 29, 2005

The flaws in the design and execution of Canada’s immigration policy are readily apparent. So too are the compelling arguments as to why we must keep a steady stream of immigrants coming into the country to maintain our economic vitality.

We’ve known for several years that we are not getting enough of the kind of immigrants we need to augment our aging labour force. For the skilled immigrants we do attract, we set up often arbitrary barriers that leave them unable to use their training either for their own benefit or the benefit of their new communities.

TOO MANY BARRIERS

At the same time, Citizen and Immigration Canada has been plagued by backlogs that act both as barriers to people we’d like to see join us in Canada and as a screen to allow undesirable immigrants to slip into the country.

So we are both pleased to hear that the Liberal government will be considering plans to increase the number of immigrants coming into Canada and skeptical that it will be able to pull it off.

Immigration Minister Joe Volpe has confirmed that he is preparing proposals for cabinet to increase the pace of immigration to more than 300,000 a year, or about one per cent of the total population of Canada, from the current rate of about 230,000 a year.

Volpe’s plan will have to deal with the institutional snafus and lack of capacity that have plagued his department. That won’t be easy, given the reputation for mismanagement this government has gained from its handling of the gun registry.

The federal government has already taken some steps towards dealing with some of the department’s internal problems. It has also started slowly to address the problem of allowing immigrants to make use of their skills, so heart surgeons don’t have to drive taxis.

But the politicians will have to do much more to accommodate a 25-per-cent increase in immigration over five years.

Assuming they can get that piece right, they then have to address the more complicated issue of balancing the competing interests in immigration policy.

First among those is being hard-headed enough to ensure that the net effect of immigration is to strengthen the economy. That means looking for immigrants who are either skilled or wealthy enough to be immediately productive or young enough to make a net contribution over their lifetime in Canada.

At the same time, we can’t be hard- hearted in a world where Canada is already one of the wealthiest nations. Canadians have to be aware of our responsibility not to add to the problems of developing nations by, as a matter of design, creaming off their best and brightest.

That caveat does not mean, however, that we should not take advantage of skilled foreigners who want to emigrate and choose Canada.

HAVEN FOR REFUGEES

For example, many foreign students who come to study in Canada want to stay here. Our rules should encourage this practice, with changes such as Ottawa’s recent decision to allow them to work here for two years after graduation, rather than one, before seeking permanent resident status.

We also have to continue to act as a haven for legitimate refugees and maintain some capacity to allow for family reunification.

All this has to be done while ensuring that the security concerns of 9/11 are not forgotten.
　

先日バンクーバーサンの紙面でこの記事読みました。
解決したらしいですが、確かに移民枠は増加するらしいですよ！彼（カナダ人）に朗報だね！って言われて読んだんですが。 　

そうですね。バンクーバーサンに載っていたとは知りませんでした。
基本的には同じ内容ですね。
技術者移民はもちろん移民をねらっている人には朗報ですね。 　

移民を増やしたいという公約を発表しただけで、具体的に何をするかは全く明らかになっていないようなのであまり期待しないほうがいいかもしれません、、 　

私個人的には、ＲＥＳ５さんに１票です。
移民を増やすというのはもう此処何年も言ってますがあんまり期待できないと思います。
だったカナダだもん。口だけですよ。期待はあんまり出来ないと思います。 　

選挙が近づくと、移民枠増加の話が出ますよね。（笑）
絶対ないとは言わないけれど、あまり期待しないほうがいいというのに、
私も1票。