Immigration Minister Christine Melnick: Provincial Nominee Program

Federal Government Dept: Immigration Minister Christine Melnick stood in the legislature following question period and demanded that the federal government reverse its decision to cancel its shared settlement services agreement with the province, according to CBC. The program is a national strategy meant to help skilled workers and entrepreneurs from other countries gain permanent resident status in Canada more quickly and a war of words took place at the Manitoba legislature on Thursday afternoon between the NDP government, which is fighting to keep the provincial nominee program, and the Tories. Some of the 100 to 150 people who came to the Manitoba legislature on Thursday afternoon to protest changes to the provincial nominee program. Katie Nicholson/ Without funding from that agreement, Manitoba's Provincial Nominee Program is dead, according to the province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.