Shocking and unjustifiable:’ Canada is deporting migrants at its highest rate in more than a decade<br />Advocates for migrant workers say the surge in deportations follows Ottawa’s commitment to a ‘regularization program’ that would allow them to stay in Canada as the government responds to historic labour shortages.<br /><br /><br />Canada has spent more than $115 million deporting nearly 29,000 migrants since 2022, an unprecedented rate that flies in the face of the federal government’s promise to regularize the status of undocumented workers, advocates say.<br />In 2023, Ottawa spent more than $62 million on deportations, the highest amount spent in a year in over a decade, according to data from the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) dating back to 2011.<br /><br />
