[Bruce_the_vii]

A Czar of Canadian Social and Economic conditions.

Canada should have Just-in-Time immigration. The idea is to have a lower, background level to the national immigration program but when any growth city develops low unemployment there would be a special movement just to that city for just the coming year. When general unemployment goes down in a specific city local businesses should be given additional work visas for skilled foreigners. The special movement would be for permanent immigrants that bring their family as opposed to the current Temporary Foreign Worker visa program that this would replace. This way you could top up the cities that were ahead and keep the rest of the country growing normally by reducing unemployment. Businesses are usually keen on hiring foreigners when there is a tight labour market and you might have to prioritize the movement to bottlenecks and critical services. The background immigration would especially be of humanitarian, family class and corporate class immigrants as usual. It would still be quiet large.

The Immigration Department should put all corporate class immigration including this city-by-city in one central department in Ottawa and the Director of that would be the Czar of Canadian Economic and Social well being. He or she would be responsible for optimizing labour market conditions in lead Canadian cities both economic and social benefits. The department would be concerned with Best Practices and balancing demands, say from business for workers with the need to keep the unemployment low. This would be a vital role, not unlike the Bank of Canada’s work.

[Lemmy]

I'm not sure that turning Immigration Canada into a temp agency would benefit either new Canadians nor Canadian businesses.

[Bruce_the_vii]

That's not what I mean, temp. Businesses don't really hire temp. You can't so much as apply to Tim Hortons unless you say you going to stay. The government has a Temporary Foreign Worker program and I think it's odd. Corporations want to hire world class talent permanently and so on and this should be expanded to have a city by city special movement when the labour force gets really tight. There's about 20 issues with low unemployment and the Director of the agency would be responsible for them.