RE: 24-MLITSD010 – Proposed amendments to Ontario Regulation 422/17 (General), a minister's regulation made under the Ontario Immigration Act, 2015, pertaining to the Employer Job Offer: In-Demand Skills stream

The Program is a key tool for Ontario as it faces the anticipated retirement of more than 86,000 construction workers in the province and the need to hire, train and retain almost 100,000 additional workers by the end of the decade. [...] RCCAO also appreciated the opportunity to be part of the OINP consultations that the Ministry held in the fall of 2023 and to provide feedback on those consultations and government survey. [...] 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.