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Manitoba invited 49 Ukrainian candidates through the MPNP
On June 26, 2023, the Government of Manitoba held the 15th draw for Ukrainian candidates. In this draw, the province invited 49 candidates through the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP). To be eligible, applicants must be Ukrainian citizens, have a minimum of CLB 4 in each language band, have connections to the province (close relative, community ties, previous employment, or studies in Manitoba), and score at least 60 points in the EOI registration points-grid, and possess a valid language test in one of the official languages. In total, the province invited 6,711 candidates in 2023, including 174 Ukrainian nationals.
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Canada is taking steps to address issues with the recently revised data on temporary foreign workers
The Canadian Federal Government will release a full report on temporary foreign work permit holders in Canada after it was discovered that over twenty years of data had been tampered with without explanation. In February, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada published figures indicating that over one million people held work permits under the International Mobility Program. However, the department recently significantly revised the numbers to around 675,000 permit holders. This revision caused concern for some economists that the number of temporary foreign workers in the country may be obscured. The department said that the revised numbers were not correctly labelled and intends to publish figures on narrower and broader groups of work permit holders in the future but did not provide a timeline.
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Canada job vacancies dropped in the first quarter of 2023
In the first quarter of this year, job prospects for the least-educated workers in Canada were hit hard as job vacancies for their positions dropped significantly. According to Statistics Canada, the largest proportional decline was seen in jobs requiring a high school diploma or less, where job vacancies fell by 16% or 82,900 positions. The tightest labour market was for tradespeople, which saw an increase in employment of 100,600 or 3.4% in Q1. According to the latest job vacancies report, there were 843,200 job vacancies in Q1, a decrease of 3.8% from the previous quarter and the third consecutive quarterly decline.
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Temporary residents in Canada are typically young and employed
Temporary residents in Canada are primarily from India and China and tend to be younger and employed. According to Statistics Canada, the labour force participation rate for the Canadian population is 63.4%, аnd it is 74.2% for temporary residents. Last year, nearly one million temporary residents participated in the census, making up 2.5% of Canada’s population. Temporary foreign workers with work permits make up Canada’s largest chunk of non-permanent residents. International students and asylum claimants also make up a significant portion. The remaining 8.7% were other types of non-permanent residents, including those in Canada under Parent and Grandparent (PGP) Super Visas.
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