{"id":122526,"date":"2023-06-29T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/canada-urged-to-open-up-more-pathways-to-permanent-residency-for-temporary-foreign-workers\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T19:07:10","slug":"canada-urged-to-open-up-more-pathways-to-permanent-residency-for-temporary-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-urged-to-open-up-more-pathways-to-permanent-residency-for-temporary-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Urged To Open Up More Pathways To Permanent Residency For Temporary Foreign Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Temporary foreign workers in Canada need more pathways to permanent residency<\/a>, says a senior policy fellow at Toronto Metropolitan University and former deputy minister of immigration.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there are particular occupations where there\u2019s a real need and we\u2019ve become dependent on temporary foreign workers. We should include them in a permanent system,\u201d Naomi Alboim reportedly told Canadian Manufacturing<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, the demographics of the Canadian workforce mean that we have to work internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) reveals there were 465,350 foreign nationals in the country who had gotten work permits through the International Mobility Program<\/a> (IMP) last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the first four months of this year, the IMP can be expected to close the year with an even higher number as there were 249,060 such foreign workers through the program by the end of April.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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That puts the IMP, which allows Canadian employers to hire foreign workers on a Canada work permit without the need for a Labour Market Impact Assessment<\/a> (LMIA), on track to end the year with 747,180 foreign workers coming to Canada through that program, if the trend continues.<\/p>\n

There were also 135,760 foreign nationals working in Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program<\/a> (TFWP) in 2022, a number that may be surpassed this year as 72,030 such workers had already come to Canada through the TFWP by the end of April, 2023.<\/p>\n

That trend, if it continues, would see 216,090 temporary foreign workers through that program by the end of this year.<\/p>\n

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