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June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely. Maybe I'll just highlight two lessons that we've learned. One is that it's important to have support for the people participating in the pilot. We have a dedicated service channel. That's something we rolled out in the Atlantic immigration pilot midway through th

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Going to the principle of the pilot, which is really community-driven, we would be looking at evaluating it in consultation with our community partners on whether it has met the needs they've set out in their participation in the pilot. That might be a small number or a large num

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If someone comes on a temporary basis and has a study permit, that would be workable in terms of both their secondary or post-secondary education, but if they're coming as a permanent resident, which we expect most would be, then they would be able to study as anyone can in Canad

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, we can look into that and report back to the committee soon.

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are certainly working on them, but it's something we would want to negotiate individually with each community. There are certain standard parts of it, but I'm not sure it's in a final form to table with the committee.

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We'd want to negotiate different elements, such as the endorsement factors that were mentioned in the presentation. There would be some standard parts, but we can look into what we can table, or perhaps a description might suffice.

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As part of our training with communities, we'll be ensuring that program integrity is a key module in that training so that we can ensure that communities are apprised of possible risks or things they should be watching for.

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We expect that if they're coming from abroad, they would submit their permanent resident application and could land as permanent residents when they arrive in Canada, or they might receive a temporary work permit while their PR application is being processed. If they're in Canada

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In terms of projected numbers, it will depend on the community. As you can see from the communities that have been selected, there is a broad diversity in terms of size, location and sectoral interests. So quantitatively, we don't have particular targets per community. As for su

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On the first point about targets, as I mentioned, the communities range from having populations as low as 3,000 up to 200,000, and include much more remote communities, so we have not established particular targets per community, but we—

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As to the specifics of the cases in the Atlantic immigration pilot, I wouldn't be able to provide anything on that other than to say that the Atlantic immigration pilot uses a slightly different model from what we're proposing here. AIP, as we like to call it, is considered an em

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Just for clarification: are we talking about the rural and northern immigration pilot?

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Through our community partners, we'll be asking them to ensure that Canadians were considered first before approving an endorsement.

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They will work with employers in the community.

June 17th, 2019Committee meeting

Natasha Kim