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Citizenship and Immigration committee Of course, there is no one measure of mobility. You can look at where the provincial nominee candidates are a year after they arrive, or three years after they arrive, or further down the road. In a mobile economy, I don't think we would particularly.... We would be less interest
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's one of the key questions going forward as the provincial nominee programs grow in size. Only four to five years ago they were really quite small, and issues of overlap or redundancy or gaps were less important than they're starting to appear now. We are engaged in a mult
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee We will check with the department as to when it will be available—
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, we could certainly do so.
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think it's in translation. I think we're looking at February, something like that.
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee My notes say early 2012.
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee At the current time, and over recent years, the levels of the planning ranges have remained constant, although at a very high level, as you know—at historically high levels. Should the provincial nominee program continue to increase in size within a stable overall levels framewo
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Yes, the pattern over recent years has been for the provincial nominee programs to increase dramatically as a share of the overall economic program component. At this time, the federal government has felt that it is important to maintain the space for the federal skilled worker p
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee I don't think it would be good for me to speculate about improvements, other than to say that the processes, which the minister has put in place through ministerial instructions to enable us to manage our inventories and backlogs, have started us down a road where we can see that
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you, Mr. Davies. You'll understand that I can't talk about the details of the evaluation report prior to its publication, which is coming very soon, early next year. The department has been consulting closely with the provinces through the process of doing that evaluation
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee We're certainly working toward that with them. I don't think that either us or the provinces would say that we are where we need to be. Certainly, the issue of fraud and program integrity across all immigration categories require strong collaboration between the levels of governm
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee Provinces and territories are responsible for the design, management, and evaluation of their own provincial nominee programs. That said, provincial nominee programs have to respect federal immigration law and regulations.
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee The same principle applies to all provinces. The province has responsibility for the design, management, and evaluation of their own provincial nominee programs. The bilateral agreements are not identical, but they're very similar with regard to that principle.
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom
Citizenship and Immigration committee In effect, I guess that's the reason for provincial nominee programs, since they're designed to enable provinces to work on specific local needs, whether they be demographic or labour market oriented. There's a wide variety of different programs; there are about 50. For example
December 1st, 2011Committee meeting
David Manicom