In 2012, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney announced that Canada would re-shuffle its immigration mix with a focus on economic immigration and with special emphasis on the Canadian Experience Class (CEC). Interestingly, the distribution of admission targets 2013 for Canada did not change significantly for the economic category (62.3% for 2013; 61.6% for 2012), which suggested that the change in mix would happen within the economic immigration category. Between 2010 and 2011, BC’s immigration numbers dropped by nearly 10,000 – most of this decrease was a result of lower numbers in the BC economic immigration class. AMSSA took a closer look at the makeup of this immigration class.

Learn more: Economic Immigration Class – Trends for Canada and BC; Issue 5