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Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you. For all, regardless of entry classification, it is imperative to focus on labour market integration, as this sets new Canadians, their families and their chosen communities up for success from the outset. Committee members, quite simply, hope is not a strategy. To ef
June 21st, 2021Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Citizenship and Immigration committee Is that addressed to me?
June 21st, 2021Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Citizenship and Immigration committee Good afternoon, and thank you, Madam Chair, vice-chair, committee members and fellow speakers here. I am speaking to you today from Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. I go by the pronouns she, her and elle. Today I am still remotely work
February 8th, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Citizenship and Immigration committee There is no direct role. I'm not intimately familiar with the Chinook system. As to the other comments that have been made, I do appreciate the concerns with AI and AI bias, but we've got plenty of examples from the business community, and even examples with immigration programs
February 8th, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Citizenship and Immigration committee Is that a concern for domestic students? That would be my response. Domestic students aren't restricted to hours they can work off campus, so I'm not sure why international students would have that restriction upon them. I would argue in the bigger picture, as well, it helps th
February 8th, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Citizenship and Immigration committee Before the pandemic, back in January 2020, we had unprecedented labour vacancies at that time. It was almost half a million vacancies. We used to say there were 600,000 international students here in the country. It's not unequivocal, because of labour market integration, but we
February 8th, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, vice-chairs, committee members and fellow panellists. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and make an appearance this afternoon. I am speaking to you from Ottawa, the traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabe people. I go by the p
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee Good afternoon, and thank you for the question, MP. We at the Canadian Chamber talk a lot about demand-side labour market information. It's not very, for lack of a better word, sexy or attractive, but this is the missing piece to a lot of the workforce puzzle. I only caught som
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee There was an excellent example of an announcement today. With respect to automation, before the pandemic, there was an interesting article that came out, around the end of 2019, that talked about how robots were going to automate 50% of the jobs in Canada. I think there are a lot
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee I'm happy to speak to the temporary foreign worker program and the need to modernize. We have any number of recommendations. First and foremost, I would go back to some of those previous discussions in the previous panel session here around need for LMIAs and the like. The Canad
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee Certainly. I'm sorry.
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee At this time we do not collect data from our members, but in the past two weeks, we have entered into an agreement with the Government of Canada and Stats Canada for a business data lab. We'll have the ability, going forward, to look at a lot of this work, particularly from the d
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee Thank you, MP, for that question. It is an excellent question. We can talk about temporary foreign workers specifically, but writ large, I think this comes back to the importance of labour market information. When you talk about immigration levels in the country, about how many
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee There are a number of those. What I would argue around the continued devolution is that you can't have a pilot project in every riding in this country, so then we have to start looking at going from the pilot to incorporating it into the larger stream as well. Again, COVID did th
March 3rd, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord
Human Resources committee Good morning and thank you, Mr. Chair, vice-chairs and committee members. It's a pleasure to be here this morning to make an appearance regarding certain divisions of part 5 of Bill C-19. I'm speaking today from Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishina
May 26th, 2022Committee meeting
Leah Nord