Public Service Jobs: Alterations

Environmental Oversight Dept: The move hasn't garnered the sort of blaring headlines that accompanied the shrinking of public service jobs, alterations to environmental oversight or boosting the age of eligibility for Old Age Security. But, like those actions, it is about more than just budget numbers, according to Vancouver Sun. So he plans to refund the $130 million they paid in application fees, then send them to the end of the queue and about 280,000 would-be immigrants, stuck on a waiting list of people who applied to come to Canada more than four years ago, were told as a result of the recently passed federal budget to start the process from scratch. The 280,000 had sought to come to Canada under a federal program for skilled workers and, while they may have met the criteria when they first applied, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney believes many of their qualifications are no longer relevant. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.