OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s new immigration plan shifts the focus toward economic immigrants and cuts by more than half the number of new international students that can come to study in Canada.

With recent opinion polls showing most Canadians still believe immigration levels are too high, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will further reduce temporary resident admissions and make good on his election campaign promise to cap those numbers to five per cent of the overall population.

In delivering the federal budget Tuesday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the government’s goal was to return the immigration system to a sustainable path.

“We are taking back control of our immigration system and putting Canada on a trajectory to bring immigration back to

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