Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) Program
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Canada Opportunities
Now, Canadian Businesses are in for a treat, when recruiting Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) to quickly fill their labour market needs, with the introduction of the Accelerated Labour Market Opinion initiative by HRSDC.
In most cases, Canadian businesses need a permission before their selected foreign workers can start working in Canada. There are 2 types of permissions required
1. Labour Market Opinion (LMO) issued by HRSDC for the Canadian business,
2. A Work Permit issued by the Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC) to the foreign worker. The Work permit
In the past few years, the LMO processing times have grown as long as 12-16 weeks. Part of the reason for the timelines is related to the amount of verification of the documents that an Officer has to do, when processing an application.
The HRSDC has recently introduced an initiative, aptly termed as Accelerated Labour Market Opinion (A-LMO) which aims to reduce the processing time to as low as 1 week, while maintaining the integrity of the decision-making related to the temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). This will be achieved by replacing the voluminous paper submissions in traditional LMO applications with self-attestations.
There are exemptions for LMO related to certain occupations.
This is among a series of recent changes aimed at streamlining the process, while improving the integrity of the TFWP. One of the recent change towards the latter objective, allows only Authorized representatives to deal with the HRSDC on behalf of Canadian businesses. The author of this article, a member of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC) is such an Authorized Representative.
While Canada is anticipating a skilled labour shortage in the next few years, the oilsands region of Alberta is experiencing one right now.
The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB), which includes the City of Fort McMurray, several rural communities and five First Nations, is home to Alberta’s booming oilsands and houses existing operations plus $100 billion in projects currently underway.
Oilsands investment/development is expected to generate $2.1 trillion in economic activity between 2010 and 2035.
The 2010 Municipal Census for the RMWB shows the total population expanded rapidly to 104,338 in 2010 from about 42,600 in 2000.
Forecasts from the municipality’s planning and development department predict that the area’s population might reach 205,000 by 2028.
There is a need to mould immigration procedure to enable targetted labour to reach businesses in time, else it may delay the projects or create losses to the businesses.
Hi Raul:
ReplyDeleteIt is a very interesting scenario that you pictured concerning the shortage of labour force in Canada. What are the perspectives for access to this labour market? Are there steps or procedures to be followed? How do Canadian authorities will tackle the problem? You mentioned specifically the Oil & Gas sector growth, but what about the other sectors such as technology, agriculture, entertainment, tourism and etc? All sectors have to develop if one wants to have vitality the economy. Is there a Global plan that would seek for a balance of the economy as whole and not only Oil & Gas? The future of the energy sector is so unpredictable. The simple utilization of a hydrogen dry cell could decrease the actual fossil fuel consumption by more than 30% (It is more than that, but I’m being a bit conservative here). That with minor changes to vehicle parts, and it is happening right now. Of course other technologies are performing much better by establishing zero emission and they are only waiting for government approval.
Well I would appreciate if you could inform me on how to proceed towards the new facilities that the Canadian job market will have to offer in a near future. How could I get up to date information on those changes? I really would love to participate.
Thanks
Leonardo Renda Sobrinho
Thanks Leonardo for your concern. I believe the Canadian govt though understand the effects of immigration and skilled labour capabilities, but it doesn't want to open its market for the sake of unbalanced growth. your question on how Canadian authorities will tackle the problem? It's answer is little complicated. What i believe is all interconnected. The monarchy of Canada has been headed since 6 February 1952 by Queen Elizabeth II, who as sovereign is shared equally with fifteen other countries within the Commonwealth of Nations. For growth needs, immigration rules were very easy for Canada in 90's, then in 2000's it were made easy for Australia and in late 2000's for new-zealand. Now due to slow down (secret still not out yet)these rules are not as easy as compared to Australia, being oil reserve nation, & development will keep on doubt without doubt, stress is still more on Australia. from July, 2012 rule again have been relaxed for Australia. see my blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://howtosettleabroad.blogspot.in/2012/07/australias-new-points-system.html
I am not cynical about oil and gas sector, (though i belong to same), but It was just an example. your question on, How could I get up to date information on those changes? refer the link below for skills in demand in canada-
http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/NOC/English/NOC/2011/QuickSearch.aspx?val65=*
or to check your eligibility to work in Canada(if you wish to immigrate)
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who-instructions.asp
thanks!!!
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