Canadian Immigration News

The new Agreement on Canada-Yukon Cooperation on Immigration was recently announced by the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Diane Finley, and the Yukon Minister of Education, Patrick Rouble. The new agreement will help strengthen the partnership between the two governments to encourage immigration to the Yukon Territory.

Human Resources and Social Development Canada is working with the province of Manitoba to develop a Letter of Understanding (LOU) that will strengthen protections for temporary foreign workers. Manitoba is the third province (after Alberta and British Columbia) that the federal government has begun collaborating with to ensure that these workers are guaranteed safe working conditions and the fulfillment of employment contracts.

Both Canada and Alberta, along with other provinces and territories, have been implementing labour force strategies to deal with current labour shortages and prepare for the future.

Since 2003, the city of Calgary, Alberta , has held GlobalFest, an annual community-driven festival of fireworks and cultural events that showcase Calgary’s cultural diversity. The theme for this year’s festival, which begins on Friday, is Canadian citizenship and multiculturalism.

Skills Connect, a British Columbia (BC) employment initiative that helps immigrants find jobs that match their skills and experience, is now providing its services to the health care sector.

This past year, the British Columbia (BC) Provincial Nominee Program ushered 1,881 skilled and business immigrants into the province, exceeding its target by 9 per cent and increasing the number of nominees over last year by 41 per cent.

Recent changes to the British Columbia (BC) Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) will make it easier for business immigrants to set up new businesses in the province. The BC PNP has lowered the minimum investment requirements for all three categories of the BC PNP Business Stream (from $800,000 to $400,000 for Business Skills, from $300,000 to $200,000 for Regional Business, and from $1 million to $500,000 for Strategic Projects).

Aware of persisting labour shortages for some time now, the British Columbia (BC) government has been investing in WorkBC, the provincial action plan to address skills shortages.

The Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) is reaching out to northern Indian business owners and skilled workers interested in immigration to Canada by establishing a BC in-market business investment and skilled liaison representative in the Chandigarh region of the Punjab.

British Columbia Earlier this week,(BC) Minister for Advanced Education and Labour Market Development Moira Stilwell announced that newcomers to BC now have an enhanced website that provides settlement and integration resources to immigrants.