you said ,nov 22 is the new mandate isnt it,hope that will be favourable for FSW-O and they keep their word.
Usually mandate letters come after throne speech, when an election occurs. So I am guessing its on the 22nd since thats when will happen the throne speech. Even if its good for FSW I still doubt new draws will happen this year. Overall PR backlog is huge, would take like 8 months to clear everything at the current rate.
At this pace, our grandkids will have PR before us.
Unless the new minister kicks IRCC's lazy ass back into work and rejects all paid leaves until 2023. It doesn't even have to do with the pandemic; there was already a growing backlog in 2019 and the average processing time had gone up to 9 months from 6 months the year before. Those lazyasses have been slacking since 2019 and getting paid. Also a strict performance monitoring practice should be employed or there's nothing that'll make those slackers earn what they're being paid.
IRCC is approving 45000 applications per month so they are not exactly lazying around, infact I think they are at the peak of being productive. It's just that they are not working on anything else except CEC and TR to PR.
Let's hope that's true. Then things would be good once this damned 2021 is over and low score CEC and TRs are pushed back into the butthole again since they won't help targets that much in 2022.
The new minister needs to change priorities otherwise things will remain the same. I have seen some CEC candidates in the pool complaining that they will have to leave by end of this year or early next year because of expiring permits so IRCC is definitely okay with them leaving. If Canada really needs so many immigrants that they are chasing the targets by any means necessary, WTF were they doing all these years when countries like the US and UK were taking in loads of immigrants?
Would be nice if they shift priority comes January. That would mean all inland would basically be last pick since they are mostly new apps. Finalizing inland in January or December would have the same result in the end.
Before 2020, Canada does meet their targets give or take a few percent, and most of the applicants they let in are from the FSW stream, the ones that fought tooth and nail to get an ITA. I think 2020 and 2021 are heavily influenced by COVID which is why we see a lot Inland applicants get selected and processed, but generally Canada wants to have the high-skilled people in. Also, while Canada wants a lot immigrants they want them to come in a controlled manner, they won't suddenly open the floodgates and allow a high number of immigrants to come in.
At least countries like US and UK are not in such desperate need of immigrants that they have to give out permanent residence to people who have never set foot in their countries but Canada is a special case, pretty sure they were just sitting on their ass until the population problem became too big.
But Canada only became a fully sovereign nation in 1982, and its population then was merely 25 million, compared to 231 million (US) and 53 million (UK) at the same time.
What about loads of people who moved to US and UK in the 2000's and some part of 2010's and permanently settled there? Was Canada also allowing the same thing to happen during that time? Maybe if they did, then Canada wouldn't have to target "record" levels of immigration now when moving permanently to any other western country is pretty much impossible through study or work visas.
