Island Investment Development Inc.: Provincial Nominee Program

Provincial Nominee Program Dept: Under the immigrant partner program of the Provincial Nominee Program potential immigrants had to invest in a P.E.I. business. More than 1,400 businesses on the Island received investments. The auditor general estimates the program was worth $120 million to the provincial economy, according to CBC. The commissioner had agreed with Island Investment Development Inc., the government body that administered the immigrant investor program, that releasing the names could cause significant harm to the companies and news is entitled to the names of companies that received money through the immigrant partner program of the Provincial Nominee Program, the P.E.I. Supreme Court has ruled. The Provincial Nominee Program The had appealed a decision of the province's freedom of information and protection of privacy commissioner that would have kept the names secret. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.