Trudeau’s vision for Canada immigration etched in his mandate letter

The Minister of immigration, refugees, and citizenship mandate letter from the Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to Mr. Fraser, the Minister of Canada Immigration, reflected a country’s aspirations. These aspirations are significant in a time when it’s dealing with a pandemic, making all efforts to emerge from it successfully and better.

The letter touched upon several aspects. It sketched out what it meant to build a constructive scenario. Such a scenario not only helps in revival but also sustenance and development of an ideal social and economic atmosphere. Immigration having to play a large part in it was at the center of focus of the PM.

In his letter to Mr. Fraser, he highlighted major considerations to result in meeting expectations. He also laid out his expectations from what Canada immigration will be like in the time to come.

The following objectives were laid out for Mr. Fraser about what Canada immigration must achieve in the days to come:

• Keep on bringing newcomers to Canada. Enable them to contribute to driving Canada's economic recovery and growth. It will play out as planned and laid out in the Immigration Levels Plan for 2021-2023.
• Bring about the expansion of the new immigration stream. It will be aimed at defenders of human rights and collaboration with civil society groups. The aim will be to provide opportunities for resettlement for people facing a threat.
• Garner support of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in order to continuously facilitate safe passage as well as resettlement of vulnerable people from Afghanistan. Emphasis will be given to individuals who gave support to Canada and its allies over the past 2 decades. Priority will be given to women, defenders of human rights, LGBTQ2 people, and members of religious and ethnic minorities, and journalists also. The number of eligible refugees should be increased from 20,000 to a minimum of 40,000 people.
• Bring down processing times of applications. This will include the time taken to address delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Work to strengthen family reunification. This will be done through the introduction of electronic applications for family reunification. Also, implement a program for the issue of the status of temporary resident to spouses and children abroad. This will be done for the period in which they wait for the processing of their application for a Canada PR visa.
• Make the application process for citizenship free for PRs who have met the requirements for obtaining it.
• Including the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development, and Disability Inclusion, set up a Trusted Employer system. This will be for Canadian companies that hire TFWs. Also, the Global Talent Stream of the TFW Program will be improved. For this, bring about the simplification of renewals of permits, uphold the 2-week processing time, and set up an employer hotline. Keep up the work with territories, provinces, and regulatory bodies for the improvement of recognition of foreign credentials.
• Build on existing pilot programs. This will be to explore more ways of status regularization for undocumented workers. Those will be workers who are making their contribution to communities in Canada.
• Keep on working with Quebec to support the knowledge of the French language of immigrants in Quebec. This will be with respect to provincial jurisdiction as well as to complement existing measures. Also, continue to implement a national strategy to give support to Francophone immigration across Canada.
• Lead the Canadian Government’s work on irregular migration. This will include ongoing work with the US to modernize the Safe Third Country Agreement.
• Work on the expansion of pathways to Canada PR for international students and TFWs via the Canada Express Entry On pathways for agricultural TFWs, Mr. Fraser will get the support of the Minister of Agriculture & Agri-Food.
• Doing constructive work on the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot. Also, work with Canadian employers and communities to welcome 2,000 skilled refugees to solve labor shortages in high-demand sectors like healthcare.
• Make sure that small- and medium-size communities get better support from immigration as they require more immigrants to increase their economic growth as well as social vibrancy. For this the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot will be expanded, work will continue on the Municipal Nominee Program, and the Atlantic Immigration Pilot will be made a permanent immigration program.

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PR – Permanent Residence