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The federal government has unveiled two new immigration pilot programs to help tackle labour shortages in rural areas and among Francophone minority communities.

The Rural Community Immigration Pilot is essentially an extension of the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP), the existing program that will expire this summer. When the new pilot launches this fall, it will be joined by an additional offering, the Francophone Community Immigration Pilot. 

The changes were announced Wednesday by...

After several months of asking the Quebec government in vain to increase its family reunification capacity, Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says it's time for his government to pull rank. 

Miller says his ministry will begin issuing permanent residence permits to those looking to unite with their loved ones in Quebec, regardless of the province's self-imposed cap on applicants, which he describes as "artificially low." 

"We're talking about people who are husbands, wives, parents,...

Several factors may have contributed to the improved labour market outcomes for recent immigrants since the mid-2010s.

The first factor is the expansion of the two-step immigration selection process, where an increasing number of economic immigrants are chosen from the pool of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) (Hou, Crossman, & Picot, 2020). In 2022, 36% of all new immigrants had work permits in Canada before immigration, a significant rise from 19% in 2010 and 33% in 2019.Note Former TFWs,...

Canada’s immigration minister is pushing back against provincial assertions that the federal government didn’t consult with Ontario over the international student cap that upended the post-secondary sector.

The Ford government has repeatedly accused Ottawa of dropping the cap on international students out of nowhere.

Minister of Colleges and Universities Jill Dunlop previously said a lack of consultation had caused “chaos” in the province and Premier Doug Ford said the Trudeau government had...