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Immigration Minister Marc Miller says further reforms to Canada's immigration and asylum systems will be proposed in the coming weeks.
The federal government recently made a significant cut to the targeted number of permanent residents to be admitted to Canada in the next two years, and tightened the rules on temporary worker permits.
Statistics provided by Canadian officials show the average wait time to process refugee and asylum claims is around 44 months.
Miller told the House of Commons immigration committee Monday that the asylum and refugee system is not working the way it should due to volume and inefficiency.
"I want to reform the system," Miller said. "The growing claims that we see now, inland, are not unexpected. They're ones that we saw with people having increasingly fewer hopes to stay in Canada, and being counselled to file, I think unjustly, asylum claims where they shouldn't have the ability to do so."
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