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Canada to make skilled-worker permits easier to get (The Globe and Mail)

March 09, 2017

As the US border tightens, Canada’s federal government is launching a new stream of its temporary foreign worker program to entice highly skilled workers to come to Canada, The Globe and Mail reports. The program’s new “Global Talent” pilot stream was announced Thursday morning in Toronto by Navdeep Bains, minister of innovation, science, and economic development, and Patty Hajdu, minister of employment, workforce development and labor. Both the government and Canadian technology companies are heralding it as an opportunity to accelerate innovation and make the country more globally competitive, in turn spurring economic development to create more jobs for Canadians.