Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa will stick to its plan to bring immigration levels to “sustainable” numbers after Alberta voters backed a referendum proposal calling for greater provincial control over immigration.
“I just want to underscore we will not budge from overall levels that are sustainable. We’re getting them to that level now,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa on Oct. 21.
Carney said he had been in discussions with the premiers about “getting immigration first and foremost to the right levels.” He also said Ottawa had retaken “control” of the immigration system by reducing the numbers of international students, temporary foreign workers and asylum seekers….