Human Resources committee  Good afternoon and thank you for the question. It is a critically important position because the EI Commission is tripartite. That's the basis and is the foundation of the governance of the EI Commission. We have stated that should remain as the centrality of the governance sys

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, vice-chair and committee members. I'm speaking on behalf of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. We represent 200,000 businesses across the country, across sectors and across sizes with our network that includes 450 chambers of commerce and boards of tra

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The agreement in that is key, because the employer who brings in the employee or employees bears a burden for all of those administrative costs. I know that this has been brought up before, and I get that there are issues toward being tied to a singular employer, but if you come

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The answer is yes and yes. Housing is a critical issue across a number of sectors. There is currently a consultation. Our members take it very seriously. We take very seriously what has happened through the crisis as well. It is a big wake-up call and it has to go hand in glove w

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Go ahead.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I will add that the Canadian Chamber of Commerce actually has a recommendation to insert an appeal process, which is currently absent, into the TFW program. I also want to highlight the point here about small and medium-sized businesses and administrative burdens. The restauran

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely anything that moves these processes online, and faster tracking processes.... We welcome many of the announcements from the budget this week. That's the biggest among them. Again, I'll come back to my original recommendation. Number one is a trusted employers program

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The short answer would be no. We'll see streams and approaches from sector to sector to sector, but across sectors and across skills levels, we need a little bit of everything. There was a question earlier about whether we should do new streams or new pilots. What we need is an

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, but I want to address your previous point as well.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Committee members, we often talk about this “either-or”, but it's a “both-and” moving forward. Labour mobility at a local level skills mismatch is a huge issue that's wrapped into labour mobility. That's from an individual motivations point of view, but it's also a regulatory bur

Citizenship and Immigration committee  As the Canadian Chamber, it will surprise no one that we put an emphasis on the economic streams of immigration pathways. What we say about all pathways or all streams is that the importance of labour market integration and setting newcomers up for success from the outset would b

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, absolutely, and that's the important point: across sectors and across skills. They're not “low” or “high”. They're in demand. The other point here, though, from a chamber perspective as well, including the sectoral focus, and I've alluded to it, would also be a geographical

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's absolutely what's needed. I said that in our opening remarks. We have three buckets of recommendations for immigration writ large. One of them is on that devolution of the immigration selection process both to the provincial level and, more importantly, to the community

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, vice-chairs and committee members. I am speaking on behalf of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, which is the voice of Canadian business. We represent 200,000 businesses across the country, across sectors and across sizes, with our network that includes 45

Human Resources committee  Thank you.