Immigration: Provinces

Immigration Dept: Canada s premiers are making a call for more control over immigration as they look for ways to bolster provincial economies, according to The Chronicle Herald. We want more space to be able to make our decisions about which immigrants will come to our provinces, where they will be settled and how many we ll get, Clark said as the premiers meeting on the economy wrapped up in Halifax on Friday and uPDATED at 8:03 p.m. Friday British Columbia Premier Christy Clark called immigration one of the single most important economic levers, yet provinces, which she said drive the national economy, don t have enough control over it. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.