Human Resources committee  The number that's referred to there are for those people who have had their academic credentials assessed. WES is an organization that assesses just the educational credentials of applicants; it doesn't speak to their ability to be licensed. That is a very important first step in

Human Resources committee  Applicants can certainly begin to have their academic credentials assessed either through an organization like WES, which provides generic assessment, or sometimes by the profession that actually does licensing for that profession. It's something that we're working to achieve wit

Human Resources committee  One of the ways that immigrants can come to Canada is through something like an arranged employment offer or through the provincial nominee program. We haven't talked about that much, but the provincial nominee program is a way that provinces can tell us that they are looking for

Human Resources committee  For temporary foreign workers, an arrangement is made with employers. So it all depends on the type of workers that employers are bringing in. Many of the temporary foreign workers in Canada now are working in less-skilled occupations, where it is less critical to have a real ass

Human Resources committee  Unfortunately, that varies very much by profession, as you can imagine. Some of the professions, frankly, aren't doing as well in that regard. I think medical laboratory technologists have a very low success rate when it comes to internationally trained applicants passing the exa

Human Resources committee  The numbers are kept by each provincial regulatory body and not all of them keep the stats. But one of the things Jean-François mentioned earlier is that we are trying to work with provinces through the framework to look at some ways of doing this very broad reporting. How can we

Human Resources committee  The process at Immigration is that we don't target specific countries; we allow any immigrant who wants to come to Canada to come here. So the source countries for immigration tend to vary over the years. Right now, we see most of the applicants for immigration coming from countr

Human Resources committee  Well, there is indirect targeting, in the sense that Immigration Canada does have something called ministerial instructions. The minister has the purview to designate certain occupations as being in demand. We determine which occupations are in demand through consultations to see

Human Resources committee  We're trying to address that issue from both ends, in the selection criteria that we set for immigrants and in providing language training supports for immigrants once they're here. One of the changes CIC has recently introduced is that we're now requiring immigration applicant