Canada's immigration department cutting roughly 3,300 jobs over 3 years

Canada's immigration department cutting roughly 3,300 jobs over 3 years

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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada plans to cut nearly one quarter of their workforce over the next three years. Joe Sadowski reports.

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