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, British Columbia has programs that are focused on trying to encourage immigrants, especially business persons, outside of the Lower Mainland area. In Manitoba, there are programs that focus quite a bit on community ties, to ensure that immigrants coming in have community and/or employer support. Alberta uses its provincial nominee programs quite a lot to ensure that they're getting skilled tradespersons; it's quite directly labour market oriented, with a high proportion of nominees already working in the province as temporary foreign workers.