Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, we all want immigrants to succeed as rapidly as possible; it's in our economic and social benefit. There is nothing that helps integration of immigrants and healthy families of immigrants more than gaining employment. So the idea of express entry is very much to not make a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can't give a precise answer to your question. Over the last three years the number of caregivers coming in on work permits at the front end of the program have been in the range of 4,000 to 6,000. The new program will allow permanent resident applications for about 5,500 per y

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Fundamentally, what we're doing is eliminating the live-in requirement. In spite of major reforms we had undertaken over a number of years, I think we all had residual concern that we had been fundamentally unable to completely remove the vulnerability of individuals when their a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, it's not an open market. The permanent resident program simply requires them to have two years of work experience in a relevant occupation. It doesn't matter whether it's with one, two, or three employers. The work permit under which they come to Canada is normally for a sp

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's a couple of questions put together. I'll try to separate them as best I can. Under express entry, having an LMIA—which an employer can only obtain after having advertised for Canadians and demonstrated to the satisfaction of ESDC that they have made all reasonable efforts

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It would, and therefore we have ensured that everyone in the pool is of high human capital, so that the LMIA affords the push to get that person, amongst all of these people with high human capital, an invitation to apply in any given week. What we don't know yet is what volume o

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There's a couple of things. As the deputy mentioned, we've had a very robust employer engagement strategy. Through the fall of 2014, for example, we've held in-person employer round tables in 30 different places, 20 different cities, with 2,500 employers, and we'll have a very ag

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. We will ensure that doesn't happen. There are a couple of different ways in which the system can respond to that. There are the three federal programs in the pool: federal skilled trades, Canadian experience class, and the federal skilled worker program. We can set the draw

Citizenship and Immigration committee  For the number of people who...

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Some tens of thousands in the early stages, then rising rapidly beyond that. Simply to clarify, those in the pool will not constitute a cost outlay. The systems' outlays are there, but they're an electronic inventory so I don't know when we'd draw on it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The names of the candidates will remain in the pool for 12 months. The applications and expressions of interest will be removed from the system, but the candidates can always submit another expression of interest. The pairing of employers with candidates will be done by advertis

Citizenship and Immigration committee  What matters is the number of people we ask to apply formally. In terms of the percentage of invitations per job, it is up to Canadian employers to use the system, and we are going to encourage them to do so. The number of formal applications, invitations and processed applicat

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. That information was published in the December 1 Gazette, and the committee can consult it.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, the point system under express entry, as we call the comprehensive ranking system, will give applicants up to a maximum of 1,200 points; 600 points are given based on their human capital, their work experience, their education, their language skills, their age, with a heavy

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'd be happy to outline the new express entry system. First, to clarify, it's not a new immigration program, it's a new application management system that we'll be launching to ensure that our immigration system is fast, flexible, and gives Canada the opportunity to select the b