It suspended it's Immigrant Investor Program for two years while it investigated the merits of the program. On the 11th Feb 2014, it scraped the 28 year old visa program.
"The current IIP provides limited economic benefit to Canada. Research shows that immigrant investors pay less in taxes than other economic immigrants, are less likely to stay in Canada over the medium- to long-term and often lack the skills, including official language proficiency, to integrate as well as other immigrants from the same countries."
