Citizenship and Immigration committee  This isn't the temporary foreign worker program with the same types of requirements that are imposed on employers before recruiting.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they would not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they would not. One of the factors that we asked communities to identify was the type of housing they had available.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they would not.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, they would not. Any permanent resident would have to have settlement funds for themselves and their families, meaning essentially their start-up costs—and that's a requirement for them to come to Canada.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They would need a full-time, year-round job offer. Domestic laws of application around labour and other employment would apply in that jurisdiction.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, there would. As part of our permanent residency criteria, we would have minimum language requirements in place.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, they would.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We expect most would be arriving as permanent residents with their families, in which case they would be able to work without a work permit.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm happy to answer that. Maybe just to clarify, the statistic I mentioned was that about 80% of immigrants intend to go to our 10 largest cities in Canada; so really, upon arrival, most are not going to rural and remote communities. They're going to large urban centres. In term

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I'm happy to. There's probably nothing quite so contested as the definition of what is actually “rural” in Canada. We used a definition that we thought promoted the goals of the pilot and also recognized some of the challenges that certain communities in Canada face in attra

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can begin, and then my colleague may want to jump in. Certainly, we have our usual data collection tools here at IRCC. They include our longitudinal immigration database, which uses administrative immigration data to track who has applied, who has entered the country, who has

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and committee members. I'm pleased to be here with my colleagues to provide information on the rural and northern immigration pilot. We have a presentation that will brief the committee on the approach and design of the new pilot. I believe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That process is already in place. The challenge that we have is where people are not declaring the consultants they're using who are unauthorized, who are operating without being declared.