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Immigration Minister Marc Miller is offering an incentive to provinces and territories to accept asylum seekers, saying he may allow them to select more economic migrants if they agree to help shoulder the burden.
As part of a wider drive to decrease the number of immigrants Canada accepts, this week Ottawa informed most provinces and territories that they must cut in half the number of people they bring in under provincial nominee programs this year. Each province receives an allotment from Ottawa for the number of nominees they can accept, although not all of them fill it.
Provincial nominee programs target immigrants who have the skills, education and work experience suitable for the economy of a specific province or territory and want to become permanent residents of Canada. They are a favoured way for former international students to gain permanent residence. Quebec and Nunavut are the only two jurisdictions that don’t use the programs.
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