With the belief that information is power, the Canadian government is planning to conduct two new workplace-related studies, with the goal of using the information from those studies to fix its troubled Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program. Citing sources, the Toronto Star reported that Employment Minister Jason Kenney will ask Statistics Canada to conduct two […]

A petition sponsored by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) opposing the new Canadian immigration reform bill garnered more than 26,000 signatures, and was recently presented to the Vancouver offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC). However, the petition opposing the Conservative government’s immigration bill may just be the first shot fired by the

It’s a battle between the lawyers and the politicians as the fallout continues from the cancellation of Canada’s Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) earlier this year. As predicted by many when the Conservative government canceled the IIP, several wealthy immigrant investors have filed lawsuits against the Canadian government claiming they were treated unfairly and that the

Only a few months after canceling a long-standing Immigrant Investor Program (IIP), Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is consulting with business leaders in advance of introducing a replacement immigration program. Alexander has held a series of meetings with business leaders in major Canadian cities, seeking their advice on what to include in the forthcoming Investor

Some experts who were invited to Ottawa to discuss Canada’s new immigration law with federal legislators say they were shut out of those immigration discussions, as part of a wider effort by the government to limit debate. The immigration advocates, who were invited to testify to parliamentarians about the Conservative government’s sweeping new immigration law,

As Canadian Employment Minister Jason Kenney considers major changes to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program, the opposition Liberal Party has put forward its own plan for reforming the troubled program. Liberal immigration critic John McCallum filed a motion in parliament that, according to the Liberals, is designed to make the TFW program more transparent

Canadian Immigration Minister Chris Alexander is vigorously defending his government’s sweeping new immigration law, labeling political opponents of the bill as hypocrites just as the legislation moves forward in parliament. Responding to both Liberal and New Democratic Party attacks on the government’s Bill C-24, Alexander said both opposition parties were “offside with Canadians who recognize

Questions are being raised about whether the Canadian government fulfilled its promise earlier this year to expedite immigration for Filipino victims of Typhoon Haiyan. In the wake of the deadly typhoon, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) pledged to simplify and expedite the immigration process to Canada for Filipinos who were “significantly and personally affected” by

Thousands of miles away from Canada’s parliament, concerns are being raised that a new Canadian immigration law could negatively affect the dual citizenship for some Israeli citizens. In the wake of the introduction of Bill C-24, arguably the largest overhaul of Canadian immigration law in decades, some experts in Israel and Canada are voicing concern

Calling the federal government’s existing Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program “inhumane and economically unsound”, Alberta’s labor minister also warns that his province’s economy relies heavily on the availability of foreign workers. In a recent speech at an immigration forum at the University of Alberta, the province’s labor minister Thomas Lukaszuk also harshly criticized the federal