Immigration, Refugees, & Borders platforms
Here's what the candidates in Kootenay—Columbia, and their parties, are promising.ESL and FSL training
Green
Economic immigration
Green
- Eliminate the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
- Address labour shortages by increasing immigration.
Eliminate the Temporary Foreign Workers Program and address labour shortages by increasing immigration, working with employers to establish paths to permanent residency.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.
Liberal
- Increase immigration modestly with a focus on highly-skilled people.
- Create a Municipal Nominee Programme allowing local communities, chambers of commerce, and local labour councils to directly sponsor immigrants.
- Make the Atlantic Immigration Pilot permanent.
Conservative
- Increase the number of points awarded for a job offer under the Express Entry Program.
- Match international students finished university with jobs.
- Provide new economic immigrants info about opportunities outside of urban centres.
- Rework the Temporary Foreign Workers Program.
To reduce duplication and ease the application process, we will create a trusted employer system so that companies do not have to constantly re-apply to the program. We will establish clear standards and timelines for Labour Market Impact Assessment processes and revise the zoning regions to make sure rural areas and tourism hotspots are not lumped into large geographic areas with urban hubs.
To ensure that those who enter Canada as low-skilled workers, as justified by concrete labour market data, are treated fairly, we will establish a path to permanence by allowing employers to sponsor applications for permanent residency. Immigration is good for the economy, good for jobs, and good for people who have chosen to come to Canada.
We will continue to monitor the Temporary Foreign Workers Program to ensure that it is achieving its intended results: supporting Canadian businesses with genuine labour needs, while also ensuring that Canadians get the first crack at jobs in our country.
From Andrew Scheer's Plan for You to Get Ahead, retrieved 2019-10-11.
NDP
- Make sure that our immigration policies and levels meet Canada’s labour force needs and recognize people’s experiences, contributions, and ties to Canada.
- Work with the provinces to address gaps in settlement services and improve foreign credentials recognition.
Family reunification
Green
NDP
Foreign credentials
Green
- Ensure professionals considered for immigration are aware of licensing requirements for their professions.
- Create a robust system for evaluating education and training credentials of immigrants.
Ensure professionals being considered for immigration have the licensing requirements for their professions clearly explained before entry.
Work with professional associations to create a robust system for evaluating the education and training credentials of immigrants against Canadian standards, with the goal of expediting accreditation and expanding professional opportunities for immigrants.
From Election Platform 2019, retrieved 2019-09-22.
NDP
Here without official status
Green
- Establish a programme to process ~200,000 people living in Canada without official status, with a pathway to permanent residency for those who qualify.
- Ensure "lost Canadians" being denied citizenship through archaic laws are protected and their citizenship restored.
Establish a program to process the estimated 200,000 people living in Canada without official status, providing a pathway to permanent residency for those who qualify.
Ensure the “lost Canadians” quietly being denied citizenship through archaic laws are protected and that their citizenship is restored. Although some significant progress has been made, some are still “lost.”
Implement the recommendation of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration to grant permanent resident status immediately to those who have refused or left military service in a war not sanctioned by the United Nations.
Improve the pathway for international students and foreign workers to Canadian permanent residency and citizenship.
From _Election Platform 2019_, retrieved 2019-09-22.
Immigrant caregivers
NDP
Immigration consultancy & affordability
Green
- Regulate the immigration consulting industry to ensure universally fair, legal and accessible services to help people navigate the immigration system.
- Increase penalties for consultants convicted of human smuggling and devote more resources to investigation and enforcement.
Liberal
NDP
Multicultural integration
Green
- Work with municipalities and provinces to improve integration of new Canadians into the multicultural fabric.
- Assist cultural organizations to obtain charitable status.
- Increase funding of multicultural associations providing immigrant support programmes.
Refugees
Green
Liberal
Conservative
- Remove the cap on privately sponsored refugees.
- Ensure departmental resources are sufficiently focused on privately sponsored refugees.
- Prioritize genocide survivors, LGBTQ+ refugees, and internally displaced people in the Government-Assisted Refugees program.
NDP
- Get rid of refugee backlog.
- Work with Canadians to resettle refugees and ensure they're given needed support to build successful lives and new homes.
- Establish a clear and permanent path for resettlement of LGBTQI2S+ refugees to Canada.