Nova Scotia announced a $2.5-million marketing campaign to attract more immigrants to fix serious labour shortages in the province.
According to provincial Immigration Minister Jill Balser, the province needs more people to ‘fill labour gaps, rebuild the economy and set a bold new course for business and financial growth.’
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions and delays in federal processing, immigration numbers have decreased in the province.
Between January 2, 2020, and April 1, 2021, Nova Scotia’s population increased only by 6,428 that is expected to increase as the restrictions ease and federal processing returns to pre-pandemic levels.
#Nova_Scotia, #marketing_campaign, #population, #labor_shortage
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/immigration-emigration-population-housing-1.6196304
October 7, 2021
On October 6, 2021, the Government of Canada introduced new vaccination requirements for air, rail, and marine travellers to limit the risk of spreading COVID-19.
Starting from October 30, 2021, all travellers will be required to be fully vaccinated in order to travel.
The Government established a short transition period that allows individuals to travel with a valid COVID-19 molecular test taken within 72 hours of travel.
Mandatory vaccination requirements will be in place from December 1, 2021, since the transition period will end on November 30.
#COVID_19, #vaccination, #travelers, #marine, #rail, #Vaccination_requirements
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/travel-tourism-sector-welcomes-vaccination-120000238.html
October 7, 2021
According to the RBC Economics and Thought Leadership report, Ottawa needs to develop new ways to recruit immigrants to resolve the severe labour shortage.
The report states that ‘the Federal Government and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) should close the gap between the target and actual intake of immigrants in the skilled trades by more aggressively promoting Canadian trades in source countries.’
Despite immigrants consist more than 21 percent of the Canadian population, in recent years, the share of immigrant involvement in trades programs was about 8.7 percent.
#Labour_shortage, #FSTP, #business, #trades
October 6, 2021
Canada's meatpacking industry has a labour shortage crisis, and the industry is calling on the Federal Government to let them bring in more temporary foreign workers.
The Canadian Meat Council stated that in Canada, approximately four thousand empty butcher stations at meat production facilities possess on average a 10 percent job vacancy rate.
According to the Canadian Meat Council spokeswoman Marie-France Mackinnon, in Alberta, the vacancy rate is around 20 percent.
However, in Quebec, the situation is more severe than in other provinces, since the job vacancy rate has approached 40 percent
. According to her, the province limits its ‘ability to have made-in-Canada protein. It means more meat is being processed in the U.S. and other countries, and more meat imports for Canadians.’
#Meat_industry, #TFW, #temporary_foreign_workers, #butchers, #Labour_shortage
October 6, 2021
