There have been various waves of
migration from Venezuela to Canada, beginning in trickles in the 1970s and ’80s
when they came to study through government scholarship programs, followed by
the exodus of the professionals when Chavez was elected president in 1998 on a
socialist agenda. Immigration Canada data show at least 3,300 Venezuelans have
become permanent residents since 2014, with 527 others being granted asylum —
three out of four Venezuelan refugees were accepted in Canada in each of the
last two years. (The acceptance rate across all nationalities was about 65 per
cent.). More…
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