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The Provincial Nominee Program ( PNP) is a set of Canadian immigration programs operated by the Government of Canada in partnership with individual provinces, each of which having its own requirements and 'streams' (i.e., target groups). [1] In a program stream, provinces and territories may, for example, target: business people, students ...
Saskatchewan embarked on an ambitious province-building program based on its Anglo-Canadian culture and wheat production for the export market. Population quintupled from 91,000 in 1901 to 492,000 to 1911, thanks to heavy immigration of farmers from the U.S., Germany and Scandinavia.
Administered the Western Canada settlement program and development which subsequently created Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, respectively. Department of Immigration and Colonization: 1917 to 1936 This was the first and original Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Department of Mines and Resources: 1936 to 1950
The history of immigration to Canada details the movement of people to modern-day Canada.The modern Canadian legal regime was founded in 1867, but Canada also has legal and cultural continuity with French and British colonies in North America that go back to the 17th century, and during the colonial era, immigration was a major political and economic issue with Britain and France competing to ...
Interprovincial migration in Canada is the movement by people from one Canadian province or territory to another with the intention of settling, permanently or temporarily, in the new province or territory; it is more-or-less stable over time. [1] In fiscal year 2019–20, 278,316 Canadians migrated province, representing 0.729% of the population.
The Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada ( LINC; French: Cours de langue pour les immigrants au Canada, CLIC) program is a free language education programme—funded and regulated by the Canadian government 's Department of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship —that offers full-time and part-time English - (excluding Quebec) and ...
e. Express Entry (French: Entrée express) is a system used by the Canadian government to manage Canadian permanent residence applications for filling labour gaps through certain economic immigration programs. [1] Launched on 1 January 2015, this immigration system is used to select and communicate with skilled and qualified applicants, it also ...
The economic impact of immigration is an important topic in Canada.Two conflicting narratives exist: 1) higher immigration levels help to increase GDP and 2) higher immigration levels decrease GDP per capita or living standards for the resident population and lead to diseconomies of scale in terms of overcrowding of hospitals, schools and recreational facilities, deteriorating environment ...