Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will add that another element to remember is that the students are quite young, and it's important to give opportunities for them to sponsor their parents and grandparents who are also young. A 20-year-old student whose parent is 50 represents an opportunity to have people come

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're just beginning to look at whether or not international students stay or don't stay. A report came out last week, I believe, on international students, showing how many stay and leave, and I think about 25% to 30% would stay or were interested in staying in Canada versus the

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would also like to quickly add that it's also important to expand the NOC categories in that transition, so it would be not just the high-flying workers but also the workers who are going to work in lower NOC categories, because they are the ones who are most likely to stay.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the answer is really about being bold and focusing on hubs. If hubs such as Moncton or Halifax or St. John's do well, the rural areas will do well. The settlement service providers in those hubs are very successful, as was just mentioned, because they're big enough and sm

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have also observed that most of the trends for immigrants in the region are driven by successes we see in Atlantic Canadian cities rather in than rural areas. Although we didn't, in the report that we submitted, look at urban/rural differences, this is something we've begun to