Local Immigration Partnership Project

Presented By: Dipti PatelJune 15, 2011

Project Objectives:

• Identify groups that will coordinate and enhance local and regional service delivery to newcomers

• Identify and minimize duplication by promoting strategic partnership between the service providers

Challenges• Low attraction for economic

class immigrants• Lack of accreditation and

licensing service facilities• Regional Service Providers• Opportunity costs,

transportation, international travel

• Professional networks communication

Opportunities• Shortage of skilled

professionals – Doctors, nurses, engineers, IT, Plant Managers

• Succession planning • Shifting agriculture economy

-aging farmers, number of small farms declining, changing agriculture business and changing technology

Understanding Immigration and Rural/Urban Connectivity

Canadian Technologist Immigrant Network

•Economic Immigrants• Family Class

Immigrants

Signpost – Ryerson University

• China• Philippines• India • USA • UK

Ground Breaking Initiatives

• Canadian Technologist Immigrant Network (CCTT)

• Signpost – Ryerson University

• Canadian Immigrant Integration Program (CIIP)

• Fairness Commission

Connecting to Professional Networks

Ontario Health Force Canadian Technologist Immigrant Network

• HFO Jobs is the healthcare job site

• It has two website listing opportunities for Doctor and Nurses

• Assist in search by speciality, community, geographical location, healthcare employers/organizations

Canadian Technologist Immigrant Network

• The Canadian Technology Immigration Network (CTIN) is led by the Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT) and has been developed with the specific goal of assisting internationally-trained engineering technology professionals in having their credentials recognized and finding successful employment in Canada

• CTIN’s national network of partners includes provincial regulatory bodies, provincial government immigration departments, community colleges, immigrant settlement organizations and immigrant employment councils

Signpost – Ryerson University

• The Sign Post is a collaborative project initiated by Ryerson University and The Conference Board of Canada, and funded by the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration, Ontario

• It’s a set of online resources and tools (Competency Assessment and Talent Management Tools) for internationally educated professionals (IEP) in the accounting and financial services (in Canada or planning to come to Canada)

• It has also been designed to help employers, immigrant service agencies, and learning service providers to facilitate talent management functions

Permanent Residents by Class -Canada

63,364 70,513 66,241 65,577 65,200

156,312 138,244 131,244

149,070 153,498

262,241 251,642 236,754 247,247 252,179

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100,000

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Family Class Economic Immigrants Total Immigrants

Business Immigrants – $ for Canadian Economy

2,591 2,201 2,025 2,832 2,872

2,643 4,672 6,329

8,343

11,801

750

820

581

446 372

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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Investors - PA Provincial/territorial nominees - p.a.* Entrepreneurs - PA

Foreign Students in Ontario

26,794

15,170

1,552 761 1,067 362

30,503

18,305

1,427 619 1,137 379 -

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10,000

15,000

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35,000

Ontario Toronto London Windsor Kitchener Guelph

2008

2009

Looking at Succession Planning in the Top Employers of Chatham Kent

*Data source: Industrial/ Agricultural Database of Businesses for CK (2009), CK web, CKHA website

Municipality2200 employees

Union Gas700 employees

CK Health Alliance1400 employees

Immigration = Creative Rural Economy

Identify skill and investment

opportunities for newcomers in rural

economy

Review and realign policies and systems

to attract newcomers with identified skill set

Identify rural urban partnership for

secondary migrationBuild local

collaboration

Strengthen newcomers services

& integration Creative Rural

Economy

Creating Win-Win Scenario

Municipal LevelIdentifying local

assets and building entrepreneurship and newcomers

attraction strategy around it

Realigning it to Provincial Initiativese.g. Provincial Nominee Program &Canadian Experience Class

Aligning it to emerging

Immigration Initiatives

Exploring linkages with CIIP, CTIN and Sign Post