“Successful B.C. immigrant-entrepreneur program in limbo”
“A program that helps Asian immigrants start small and medium-sized businesses in British Columbia, creating hundreds of jobs and injecting tens of millions of dollars into the local economy, has wound to a close. The “Business Immigrant Integration Support” program was started in 2012 by one of B.C.’s largest immigrant settlement agencies, known as Success, which has more than 400 …
Read More“Food Industry Wants Foreign Workers Who Can Become Citizens”
“Backlash against the temporary foreign worker program has made Ottawa leery of finding a new way for the food-processing sector to get the people it needs to fill vacant jobs, officials say. Mark Chambers is with an industry group that has presented a plan to the federal government on how it should deal with a labour shortage that he says …
Read More“Tories Quietly Give Alberta A Foreign Worker Crackdown Exemption”
“OTTAWA – Federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney says Ottawa is willing to extend to other provinces the measures it has given Alberta for some of its temporary foreign workers. In a letter to Conservative MPs last week, Kenney says the federal government is giving a one-time exemption to temporary foreign workers in Alberta from being counted under the cap on …
Read More“Canada seeks 50 millionaire immigrant investors under pilot program”
“The Canadian government will give permanent residency to approximately 50 millionaire immigrant investors and their families under a pilot program set to begin in the new year. Under the Immigrant Investor Venture Capital pilot program announced Tuesday, each investor will be required to make a non-guaranteed investment of $2 million over 15 years and have a net worth of $10 …
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