I think It's fair to say that some of Canada's actions around refugee resettlement are celebrated around the world. When you leave Canada, you find a huge appreciation for what we are doing. I find my international counterparts are spending a lot of attention looking at how we are doing refugee resettlement in the context of labour pathways. Rather than categorizing people as refugees or asylum seekers or economic immigrants, we are trying to break down those barriers and we're indicating that refugees need supports. They need resettlement supports, but they can also contribute and have skills to benefit the country and benefit communities.
I think one practice that the international community is looking at is our economic mobility program as a bit of a model for use, and that goes with some of our partners—Talent Beyond Boundaries. We need to take a look at that and try to expand it as much as we can, and even look at our asylum population. If we are going to get temporary foreign skilled workers but we actually have a population here now, how can we work with the private sector to leverage this talent?
That's one area that is a focal point for us, but the ecosystem of settlement organizations and resettlement organizations that operate across this country is one of the best ecosystems in the world, and that's thanks to the NGOs, which do amazing work every day.
Those would be some reflections that my partners have shared with me.
