RE: 24-MLITSD003 – Consultation on Employer Requirements and Experience with the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program

We applaud the work that the Government of Ontario and the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development have been doing to advance Ontario’s immigration position with the Government of Canada. [...] The goal of the employer requirements is to determine that a company has an established record of employing people for the last three years as a precursor to determine that the company can employ people for the next three years. [...] The process of the application should be focused on verifying the ability of an employer to employ people, which can be determined from documents regarding the number of full-time employees, which is another section of the current checklist. [...] Documentation To increase participation in the program and streamline the process, an employer should be given an option to provide any of the listed documentation to prove that a business has been active in Canada within the last three years or was amalgamated within the same timeframe. [...] Given the current labour market needs of the province and the ambitious pipeline of critical infrastructure work and housing being built over the next decade, it is imperative that every consideration be made to ensure that Ontario has enough skilled trade workers to get the job done.