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Ontario invited 301 French-speaking candidates to the OINP
On April 28, 2022, the Ontario Immigration Nominee Program (OINP) held the second round of invitations in Ontario’s Express Entry French-Speaking Skilled Worker stream. In this round, OINP issued 301 Invitations to Apply for the Francophone candidates. The Comprehensive Ranking Score (CRS) range of candidates who received the Notification of Interest from the OINP was between 460 and 467 points. The Express Entry profiles of the candidates were created between April 28, 2021, and April 28, 2022. In 2022, Ontario invited 507 candidates under the FSSW stream.
#Ontario, #OINP, #Francophones, #FSSW
Quebec wants to invite twice more foreign workers
According to Quebec’s Immigration Minister Jean Boulet, the province wants to recruit twice as many foreign workers in the coming year through its ‘Journees Quebec’ events as it did in 2021. On April 25, 2022, the Minister said in a press conference that “Quebec Days consists of 17 missions abroad to recruit skilled francophone workers, particularly in occupations in high demand by Quebec businesses facing labour shortages,” which makes the Government double the number of foreign workers. Thus, Quebec hopes to double the number of candidates from French-speaking and Francophile countries and invite 3,000 skilled workers in 2022.
#Quebec, #Skilled_workers, #Francophones, #foreign_workers
Canada has invited a record number of immigrants in the first two months of 2022
According to the latest statistical records from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the country welcomed a total of 72,510 immigrants in the first two months of 2022. Following this rate of immigration, one can predict about 435,000 new permanent residents to Canada in 2022. In January 2022, the Government of Canada invited 35,330 new permanent residents, and in February, another 37,180 newcomers have been admitted. When compared to last year, these figures are almost 50% more than the 48,095 new permanent residents that have been invited during the same period in 2021.
#PR, #IRCC, #Statistics, #permanent_residents
Canadian Business Council calls for the Government to allow tech workers to come to Canada without a job offer
The president of the Council of Canadian Innovators (CCI), Benjamin Bergen, called for the Government of Canada to allow foreign high-potential tech talents with in-demand skills to come to Canada without a job offer. The president of a business council added that the United Kingdom has already launched national innovation strategy on this matter, and Canada also should try it as the Canadian labour market is desperate for software developers or data scientists. Benjamin Bergen clarified that there was no “need for a 100-page academic study or a parliamentary committee convening hearings on Canada’s acute talent shortage and then waiting a year to publish a report,” and the labour shortage in the country demands to take this situation seriously.
#CCI, #Bergen, #labour_shortage, #Tech_workers