Job seekers get assistance with resumes at an immigrant job fair in Vancouver. Tuesday's budget shows the government freezing permanent residents at 380,000 a year for three years.

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says her department will prioritize foreigners living in Canada for permanent residency over people applying to settle here from abroad, as she published more details of the number of immigrants who will be allowed to settle here over the next three years.

Tuesday’s budget set out plans to freeze the number of permanent residents at 380,000 a year for three years.

But figures published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Wednesday showed that an additional 148,000 permanent residents will be added to the official targets over the next two years through one-off ini

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