The Association of Canadian Community Colleges and our members are probably one of the largest providers of immigrant integration programs in the country. The association is running the first three pilot projects for Canada overseas, so between the time immigrants are accepted for immigration to Canada and when they come, typically eight or nine months, in Guangzhou, in Delhi, and in Manila we provide a service where we work with those potential immigrants in terms of doing the links to the credentialing agencies while they're still in their home country. By doing identification and regulatory framework in Canada, they would be working on and looking at it. If language training services are needed, some of that starts beforehand. They are then linked directly into employment in Canada or into the bridge gap-filling programs for the credentialing agencies. Our member institutions and the association staff itself work with the credentialing agencies across the country, whether those are professionals or in the trades, to move immigrants and convention refugees more quickly into the labour market.
On May 26th, 2009. See this statement in context.