Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Immigration Minister

Worker Shortage Dept: Thomas Lukaszuk said there s a 25 per cent unemployment rate among trades people in Illinois and that making it easier for them to work in Alberta would also help ease a provincial worker shortage, according to CBC. Lukaszuk wants the U.S. to lobby Canada to allow more American workers in and alberta s Employment and Immigration minister wants the federal government to make it easier for Americans to work in Alberta. I'm being assured by United States representatives here in Canada that they will also be sending that message to Washington and encouraging President Barack Obama to discuss that with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to open up our border so that there is greater fluidity of labour going north and south, Lukaszuk said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.