Tell Us What You Think: Ongoing Consultations on 2013 Immigration Levels and the Immigrant Investor Program

11/12/2012

CIC’s Parliamentary Secretaries Chungsen Leung and Rick Dykstra have launched a series of cross-country consultations on the appropriate level and mix of immigration for Canada in the coming years. Since 2006, the Government of Canada has welcomed the highest sustained levels of immigration in Canadian history.

The Parliamentary Secretaries are hosting meetings with stakeholders in Toronto, Windsor, Vancouver, Halifax and Ottawa. Online consultations are also open to the public and stakeholders for input from July 31 to August 31, 2012. These consultations present an important opportunity to generate greater public understanding of the difficult decisions involved in managing a global immigration system. Engaging stakeholders and the broader public is key to CIC’s development of an overall strategy for Canada moving forward.

CIC also launched online consultations July 31, 2012, to engage the public on ways to improve the federal Immigrant Investor Program. This delivers on Canada’s Economic Action Plan 2012, which announced that business immigration programs will be reformed to target more active investment for Canadian growth companies.

CIC is now inviting online submissions from stakeholders and the public on how the department can:

• Increase the economic benefit that immigrant investment capital brings to Canada;
• Attract experienced, international investors with the skills and resources needed to ensure they integrate into Canada’s economy; and
• Develop efficient and cost-effective ways of delivering an investment program.

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