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Canada must align immigration with labour

needs, says strategic review

Canada’s immigration strategy in the coming years areas like housing and health care, using dedicated
will focus on aligning immigration policy with Category-Based Selection draws in Express Entry.”
the country’s labour market needs, immigration Housing, healthcare and infrastructure planning
minister Marc Miller said as he unveiled the strategic policy must also be integrated with planning Canada’s
immigration review report in Ottawa. immigration targets, the reports said.

Amid calls to cap the number of international
The strategic review, which lays out a roadmap for students in Canada during a housing crisis, Miller
Canada’s immigration strategy, said Canada needed said immigrants should not be blamed for rising
to attract global talent across fields to fill its labour housing costs. He said the housing crisis, which he
shortage. It outlined a need to “create the new role said has been brewing for decades, has laid bare the
of a Chief International Talent Officer (CITO) to align need to welcome more people who can work in the
Canada’s immigration policies with a long-term skills construction industry.
and labour strategy.”
“We’ll continue to prioritize trades and skilled
The CITO will be responsible for assessing what skills workers in construction. I’m looking at a number
Canada will need in the future and ensuring that of options within my department to make that
immigration strategy aligns with those needs. stream more attractive to the foreign workers,
including credentials having support from unions and
It said that Canada must focus on bringing “workers to employers to make sure that those construction jobs
Canada who can help alleviate social pressures in key that are needed,” he told reporters.

The report also calls for building an advisory
body made up of newcomers with experience in
immigration , along with other important services,
into Canada’s immigration levels planning, in
close collaboration with provinces, territories and
municipalities.

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