By Cristin Schmitz (November 20, 2023, 4:43 PM EST) -- The federal Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) opened its portal for permanent residence applications under a new “humanitarian pathway” for up to 11,000 Colombians, Haitians and Venezuelans who have family here, on the same day the country’s provincial and territorial ministers responsible for immigration called on Ottawa to give them more input into Canada’s immigration targets....