Policy Note #57 | - Community Immigration Pilot Making Economic 'Cents': How the Rural and

Based on the results of opportunity to select which workers have the most the program’s first year, the paper analyzed that the desired skills by their local industries and are the most present continuation of the RNIP in the City of Thunder likely to settle and stay in that northern or rural community Bay and to other communities in the regions of Northern in the long term. [...] In the City of Thunder Bay, the pilot was designed to run from November 2019 through December 2022.1 After one year of the program being active, two questions arose: did the program, in fact, economically benefit the local economy? Would the program's extension and expansion benefit the community? 1 In September 2022, after this report was written, the Thunder Bay RNIP program was expanded to enco. [...] EIA of Thunder Bay’s RNIP Program for All Industries on the Local Economy6 This analysis intends to measure the total economic industries that participated in the pilot are included impact of Thunder Bay’s RNIP on the economy of Thunder in one group. [...] Therefore, the program is the employment of these applicants in Thunder Bay estimated to have resulted in around 321 direct, indirect, generated another $2.9 million in local wages for the and induced jobs for the local economy in one year, local economy. [...] The first was to calculate the total value in terms of the economic impact of 229 applicants in in wages offered to applicants of Thunder Bay’s RNIP.