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Economic Action Plan 2013 confirms the Government’s intention to:
- Improve the foreign credential recognition process for additional target occupations under the Pan-Canadian Framework for the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Qualifications.
- Create a new “Expression of Interest” immigration management system which will allow for Canadian employers, provinces and territories to select skilled immigrants from a pool of applicants who best meet Canada’s economic needs.
- Reopen the Federal Skilled Worker Program with an updated points system that gives more weight to factors that are directly related to economic success, such as language proficiency and youth.
- Reform the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to ensure Canadians are given the first chance at available jobs:
- Work with employers to ensure that temporary foreign workers are relied upon only when Canadians genuinely cannot fill those jobs.
- Increase the recruitment efforts that employers must make to hire Canadians before they will be eligible to apply for temporary foreign workers, including increasing the length and reach of advertising.
- Assist employers who legitimately rely on temporary foreign workers, due to a lack of qualified Canadian applicants, find ways to ensure that they have a plan to transition to a Canadian workforce over time.
- Amend the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations to restrict the identification of non-official languages as job requirements when hiring through the Temporary Foreign Worker process.
- Propose to introduce user fees for employers applying for temporary foreign workers through the labour market opinion process so that these costs are no longer absorbed by taxpayers.
- Test new approaches to attracting immigrant investors through the new Start-Up Visa for immigrant entrepreneurs.
- $42 million over two years to meet growing demand under the Temporary Resident Program.
- $44 million over two years to support improved capacity and client service in the Citizenship Program.
- $ 23 million over two years for Canada’s International Education Strategy to strengthen Canada’s position as a country of choice to study and conduct research.
Source: Government of Canada
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