Citizenship and Immigration committee  I don't know if there's any more time left, but I'd like to say something about doctors while I can here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  The immigration system works really weirdly for doctors because they're self-employed, so for any of these job offer streams like RNIP.... For example, we have a doctor shortage, but we can't use the RNIP program for doctors because they're self-employed. They're not getting thir

Citizenship and Immigration committee  They don't have an interest in doing that here.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Sorry, I have to wrap my head around the question. The question is on strategies for retaining economic immigrants?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  In rural communities.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  One of the things I do have to say about that is I think we often think we're going to draw on the international student pool more so than we actually can. The international students who come here love living here and love working here. They really do want to stay and sometimes

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Is this a question for me? I wasn't sure.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I was listening to that discussion, and I thought it was very interesting, because I do wonder about that myself, such as on access to services and whether or not that should just be opened up to people with temporary status or whether or not having the landed status and acc

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I had looked into this a little bit as we were trying to help people who come on temporary status with their children. That is one of the big fears. We've had some people say they want to stay home until they get their PR. They don't want to come on the work permit because they a

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, it was concerning for me that, when they did pre-arrival services with our settlement agencies, that topic was not discussed. It wasn't until they spoke to me. I actually called the university and asked them what the rules were around somebody's being exempt from the interna

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can speak to that a little bit. I believe the needs are the same, but the access to services is completely different. Everyone needs housing; they need opportunities for career growth and they need services, but temporary residents don't have access to the same services that p

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. We have a large pool of temporary residents living in Canada, and in Thunder Bay specifically, who we would really like to help. We would really like to support their staying here, but they don't have access to provincially funded employment programs. They have very l

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would. I think that's a very, very important question, and it's something we very much considered when we were developing our little point system for how we were going to manage the rural and northern immigration pilot. We do look at the language proficiency of the principal ap