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Canada's Immigration Policy: Reconciling Labour Market Needs and Longer-Term Goals
May 25-26, 2010, Toronto
Program

The IRPP is grateful to the following organizations for their financial support:

  • Citizenship and Immigration Canada
  • Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
  • Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration
  • Maytree Foundation
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Session 1 - Immigration and Canada's Changing Labour Market

    Panellists:
    Don Drummond (TD Bank Financial Group)
    Glen Hodgson (Conference Board of Canada)
    Naomi Alboim (Queen's University)

Session 2 - Evaluation of the Federal Skilled Worker Program

    Speaker:
    Elizabeth Ruddick (Citizenship and Immigration Canada)

    Commentators:
    Katherine Hewson (Citizenship and Immigration Ontario)
    Gérard Pinsonneault (Centre d'études ethniques des universités montréalaises)

Session 3 - The Changing International Environment and Competition for Skilled Migrants

Session 4 - Major Economic Factors and Labour Market Outcomes

    Participants:
    Garnett Picot (Statistics Canada, University of Toronto)
    Christopher Worswick (Carleton University)

    Commentators:
    Serge Coulombe (University of Ottawa)
    Cliff Halliwell (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada)

Dinner

    Keynote address: George J. Borjas (Harvard University)

Session 5 - Determinants of Economic Integration and Policy Implications

    Participants:
    Earnings adjustment by categories of admission:
    Charles Beach (Queen's University)
    Michael G. Abbott (Queen's University)

    Labour market adjustment by age on arrival:
    Brahim Boudarbat (Université de Montréal)

    Transferability of occupations/credentials:
    Casey Warman (Queen's University)

    Commentators:
    Ted McDonald (University of New Brunswick)
    Elizabeth McIsaac (Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council)

Session 6 - Targeted Programs and Short-Term Skilled/Less-Skilled Labour Market Needs

    Participants:
    Provincial Nominee Program:
    Tom Carter (University of Winnipeg)
    James Townsend (University of Winnipeg)

    Commentator:
    Rob Vineberg (Canada West Foundation)

    Temporary Foreign Worker Program and rights of temporary workers and employers' responsibilities:
    Delphine Nakache (University of Ottawa)
    Paula Kinoshita (Quantz Law Group)

    Commentator:
    Jenna Hennebry (Wilfrid Laurier University)

    Temporary foreign workers and international students as a source of permanent immigration:
    Arthur Sweetman (Queen's University)

    Commentator:
    Jenna Hennebry (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Session 7 - Looking to 2020: Defining a Coherent Policy Framework for the Future

    Panellists:
    David Stewart-Patterson (Canadian Council of Chief Executives)
    Jeffrey G. Reitz (University of Toronto)
    Ratna Omidvar (Maytree Foundation)

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