Canadian Immigration News Briefs for February 2012

The following is a summary of developments concerning Canadian Citizenship and Immigration that took place or were announced over the last two weeks.

• Quebec employers no longer must recruit locally to hire foreign workers for range of jobs

While the Quebec Facilitated IT program came to an end on February 24th, the 7 affected professions are now part of a newly announced facilitated labour market assessment process. The new process, in effect now, includes a much broader range of 44 occupations, both in high tech and from other fields. >>Read more…

• Alberta boom continues to tap tight labour market

A shortage of labour was cited by a roundtable of energy companies in Alberta as their key business challenge. Easing immigration rules has been put forward as a possible partial solution. >>Read more…

• Greeks looking to Canada as immigration option

Two sources in the past week reported a potential influx of Greek immigrants which could be on their way to Canada. >>Read more…

• Montreal best city in Canada for university students

Montreal was just ranked the best city for university students in Canada, and the 10th best in the world. >>Read more…