{"id":109848,"date":"2023-01-27T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canada-governments-urged-to-encourage-immigration-to-smaller-communities\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:09:29","slug":"canada-governments-urged-to-encourage-immigration-to-smaller-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-governments-urged-to-encourage-immigration-to-smaller-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Governments Urged To Encourage Immigration To Smaller Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration programs that bring people to Canada\u2019s smaller communities \u2013 like the Atlantic Immigration Program and Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot \u2013 are likely to give the country the biggest bang in economic development for the buck, reveals a Conference Board of Canada report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past 20 years, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary have driven economic growth for Canada and immigration has played an important role,\u201d said Pedro Antunes, chief economist of the Conference Board of Canada, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government\u2019s immigration levels plan is an opportunity for the government to focus on encouraging immigration outside of major centres and utilize established programs that facilitate immigration to smaller centres or provinces and to northern and rural areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Read More<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/alberta-to-give-pnp-preference-to-immigrants-with-family-in-province\/\">Alberta To Give PNP Preference To Immigrants With Family In Province<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/quebec-releases-details-of-draw-issuing-1000-canada-immigration-invitations\/\">Quebec Releases Details Of Draw Issuing 1,000 Canada Immigration Invitations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/new-brunswick-launches-program-to-retain-international-students\/\">New Brunswick Launches Program To Retain International Students<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Under Canada\u2019s two regional immigration programs, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/atlantic-immigration-pilot\/\">Atlantic Immigration Program<\/a>\u00a0(AIP) and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/rural-and-northern-immigration-pilot\/\">Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot<\/a>\u00a0(RNIP), Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) encourages immigration to smaller, more remote communities.<\/p>\n<p>The employer-led\u00a0AIP\u00a0aims to bring candidates to Atlantic Canada to fill jobs when there are no Canadians available to do them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To hire through the\u00a0AIP, employers do not need a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/labour-market-impact-assessments-lmias-canada\/\">Labour Market Impact Assessment<\/a>\u00a0(LMIA). Instead, they must meet requirements to become designated to make job offers.<\/p>\n<p>Through the five-year RNIP, skilled immigrants are recruited to work in smaller communities with aging populations and labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p>To be included in the pilot, communities must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>have a population of 50,000 or less and be located at least 75km from the core of a Census Metropolitan Area, or;<\/li>\n<li>have a population of up to 200,000 people and be considered remote from other larger cities, according to the Statistics Canada Remoteness Index.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In <i>Spreading the Growth: How Canada\u2019s Smaller Cities Can Make Bigger Gains<\/i>, Antunes and Jane McIntyre, the principal economist at the Conference Board of Canada, point out that, in Canada\u2019s post-COVID-19 reality, it is the smaller communities that are facing the biggest labour shortages.<\/p>\n<p>And immigration to those communities would help alleviate those labour shortages, allow businesses there to thrive, and give Canada a solid return on its investment in immigration programs, they argue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttracting and retaining international immigrants is key to ensuring growth in cities,\u201d notes the report.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Local Governments And Businesses Need To Market Themselves To Attract More Immigrants<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cMarketing the benefits of living in smaller communities, building public awareness on immigration, and ensuring a welcoming environment and appropriate settlement services can all go a long way toward retaining newcomers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Conference Board of Canada economists acknowledge the enormous economic impact of Canada\u2019s major cities: Toronto; Vancouver; Montreal, and; Calgary. These four cities alone had a combined economic output of nearly $870 billion in 2019.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past 20 years, they\u2019ve been responsible for 48.6 per cent of the total increase in the national real GDP,\u201d recognizes the report. \u201cThis share rises to over 51 per cent if we consider just the last 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Economic immigration has been a big help in boosting the economies of those four cities, with their immigration levels doubling in the second half of the last decade.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Video:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q4b1ee2g4lM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The arrival of COVID-19 and the public health restrictions that came with it, though, greatly changed the Canadian economic landscape. Fed up with being cooped up in their homes, many Canadians opted to buy bigger houses on the outskirts of cities and even further afield.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers moved farther from the major centres,\u201d notes the report. \u201cThe price of housing in North Bay, for instance, was doubled in the spring of 2022 when compared with 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth Bay and other smaller Ontario cities well-distanced from Toronto were some of the hottest housing markets in 2020 and 2021. Many also moved to the coasts, driving up real estate prices in British Columbia and the Maritimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Post-COVID Canadian Economy Is An Opportunity For Smaller Communities To Grow<\/h3>\n<p>With the pandemic now easing off and things returning to normal, the interprovincial migratory patterns have somewhat reversed themselves, but not all.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This provides an opportunity for smaller communities in Canada to up their game and contribute in a bigger way to the country\u2019s GDP growth, say the economists.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration to those communities is the key.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of Canada\u2019s smaller cities have tighter labour markets than the top four, reflecting weaker past population growth and more prevalent aging and retirements,\u201d notes the report. \u201cTight labour markets provide an opportunity to help ensure labour market success for new immigrants, while also contributing to economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking with provincial counterparts, the federal government established programs that facilitate immigration to smaller centres or provinces and to northern and rural areas,\u201d the report points out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese initiatives are helpful but municipal leaders and employers in smaller centres need to take advantage of them. Marketing the benefits of living in smaller communities, building public awareness on immigration, and ensuring a welcoming environment and appropriate settlement services can all go a long way toward retaining newcomers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration programs that bring people to Canada\u2019s smaller communities \u2013 like the Atlantic Immigration Program and Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot \u2013 are likely to give the country the biggest bang in economic development for the buck, reveals a Conference Board of Canada report. \u201cFor the past 20 years, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Calgary have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":109831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70037,3415,4859,68897],"tags":[70038,71475,5292,72253,68056,68057],"class_list":["post-109848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-immigration-pilot-fr","category-immigration-au-canada","category-lactualite-canadienne","category-rural-northern-immigration-pilot-fr","tag-aip-fr","tag-atlantic-immigration-program-fr","tag-canada-immigration-fr","tag-conference-board-fr-2","tag-rnip-fr","tag-rural-and-northern-immigration-pilot-fr","category-70037","category-3415","category-4859","category-68897","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}