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The Yukon Nominee Program (YNP) is an economic-based immigration program for the Yukon, administered by the territorial government’s Department of Economic Development (Immigration Unit) in partnership with IRCC under the Agreement for Canada-Yukon Co-operation on Immigration. [37] The YNP offers three streams for foreign workers: Yukon ...
Labour and Immigration: 2016 [6] Labour and Immigration is no longer a department on its own. As of 2023, the immigration portfolio is part of the Dept. of Advanced Education, Skills and Immigration; [3] former components of Labour have now been moved to different departments. [24] Mineral Resources: 2016 [6] Multiculturalism and Literacy: 2016 [6]
While this represents a numerical increase, it is a significant proportional decline compared with one century prior, when the 1921 census reported that immigrants (individuals born outside Canada) comprised 85,233 persons or 47.6 percent of the total population of Winnipeg.
The Filipino community in Winnipeg is the largest visible minority group in Winnipeg, ahead of the Chinese-Canadians and Indo-Canadians (but excluding Indigenous Canadians, who are not counted as a visible minority by Statistics Canada). Winnipeg is home to one of the oldest Filipino communities in Canada, with immigration to Winnipeg beginning ...
In April 2015, the previous Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, announced that Brazilian, Bulgarian, Mexican and Romanian citizens who had recently visited Canada or who had a valid U.S. non-immigrant visa would be able to visit Canada without a visa but with an electronic authorization from 2016. [157] [158] [159]
Canada receives its immigrant population from almost 200 countries. Statistics Canada projects that immigrants will represent between 29.1% and 34.0% of Canada's population in 2041, compared with 23.0% in 2021, [1] while the Canadian population with at least one foreign born parent (first and second generation persons) could rise to between 49.8% and 54.3%, up from 44.0% in 2021.
The organization provides languages programs, career services, and loans to help immigrants start a business. [1] It provides a range of serviced for youth, and for early childhood development. [1] [10] It also runs programs that give advice about immigration law, employment standards, housing, education enrolment, and the provincial healthcare ...
However, the vast majority of these people were immigrants from Europe. [11] Interprovincial migration in Canada was at its highest in the first 20 years of the 20th century, and started to decrease in the 1920s. [13] Out-emigration from Quebec dramatically spiked in 1977, one year after the Parti Québécois won the 1976 Quebec general elections.