The government press release Canada welcomes the most immigrants in a single year in its history — Government reaches target of 401,000 new permanent residents in 2021 — is good news.
Being permanent residents, rather than the immigrants of 1913, it could be even better news than “Surpassing the previous record from 1913, this is the most newcomers in a year in Canadian history” might imply.
Given political niceties, I’m not surprised to see “With the significant exception of Indigenous people, all Canadians originally come from somewhere else,” ignoring the widely accepted African origin of all homo sapiens.