McCallum in town to promote Liberals’ immigration policy

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In a campaign stop in Winnipeg today, Liberal immigration critic John McCallum reiterated his party’s policy on immigration. More families would be reunited under a Liberal government, McCallum stated at a campaign gathering this morning.

If elected, a Liberal government would reverse a number of Conservative policy decisions that have made it tougher for newcomers to sponsor their children, parents and grandparents to join them in Canada, McCallum said.

“We would welcome all newcomers with a smile not a scowl,” he said flanked by Liberal candidates Kevin Lamoureux and Terry Duguid.

The Liberal plan is to double the number of applications for parents and grandparents to join their families in Canada – from 5,000 to 10,000 – and double the budget for processing those family class applications, McCallum said. They would raise the maximum age for dependents from 19 to 22 to allow more Canadians to bring their kids to Canada. Reunification isn’t just good for the families affected, said McCallum.

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