Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would agree as well. It is integral that you have that sense of community. I know several employers who are trying to specifically recruit the family and friends of immigrants who are coming over and have settled into the community. That has been what they're finding is helping

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The Atlantic immigration pilot is a significant driver in the immigration efforts of our region. We greatly applaud the government for continuing to extend it and for implementing that program. I will agree with you. I will not dispute your dispute that you're seeing a lot of f

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll take this one. We need a wide range of skill sets across Atlantic Canada. We're highly rural, which means we have employers that require a significant amount of skill from newcomers coming in, but also some that only require entry-level skill sets coming in. I know several

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We simply need more government programs to increase experiential learning to give newcomers and also local, domestic Canadians opportunities to be in the workforce or to increase their skill levels.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would just simply say that there are areas for all skills in Atlantic Canada and in Canada as a whole. There's room for everyone. As I mentioned earlier, in the Tim Hortons in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, 37 of the 40 workers they are employing there are immigrants. They are newc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We would agree. If there's one area of government that we would recommend expanding, we would recommend expanding the resources in Citizenship and Immigration. I think that would be a fantastic idea.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you for the question. I will answer on behalf of the chamber. We would also support a trusted employer designation. We have a similar program under the Atlantic immigration pilot program, and we think that it would be good in other parts of the country as well. The delays

Citizenship and Immigration committee  At this time we have not heard any feedback on the new express entry streams.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It's not so much in the form of testing, but the extraordinary costs to get an employee into the workforce here in Atlantic Canada now are quite substantial.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much, Sheri. Thank you very much to the committee members for having us here today, and to you as well, Madam Chair. My name is Brandon Ellis. I am the senior manager of policy for the Atlantic Chamber of Commerce. As was mentioned, we're also joined by our chi