Citizenship and Immigration committee  The provincial nominee program is not on the same level as the Canada-Quebec accord on immigration, but it does give the province selection criteria. We select our immigrants and recommend them to the federal government, or nominate them to the federal government, which makes the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll refer to one specific example we have right now that we're looking at, which is the truck driver situation in New Brunswick. We have a fairly large contingent of truck drivers who are here on temporary work permits simply because the process for getting a work permit is fast

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the seasonal side, I can't answer the question because we do not follow the progress under federal jurisdiction. Although the temporary foreign worker is also under federal jurisdiction, we are interested, because quite often it leads to permanent residence through a nominee p