Canada's Campaign Against Refugees

TORONTO -- Canada is regarded as a refugee's paradise. Indeed, the federal government never misses an opportunity to tout the country's ever increasing immigrant population, thanks to annual record-breaking admittance of foreigners.

Last year, 519,722 newcomers were admitted, a 21 percent increase from the previous year's 429,649. This has been the trend since the turn of the millennium, according to Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

However, a breakdown of the numbers reveals that 247,202 of those admitted last year were landed immigrants, 193,061 were temporary foreign workers and 79,459 were foreign students.

Refugee numbers are rarely included in the annual statistics. Every Refugee Day, the whoever is the minister of immigration (currently it's Jason Kenney) quotes a general estimation of 30,000. This, of course, is a large number when compared with other countries.

But there are reasons to believe that soon Canada will admit far fewer than 30,000 refugees each year. The Conservative government seems to be on an all out campaign to limit the influx of refugees.