Immigration: Alberta Town and Department Officials

immigration: By The Canadian Press Fri., Oct. 28, 2016 VEGREVILLE, ALTA.—The mayor of an Alberta town says he will fight the relocation of the federal immigration and refugee processing centre that has been the community major employer since it opened in 1994, according to Toronto Star. Vegreville Mayor Myron Hayduk says workers at the Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Case Processing Centre were told Thursday it will be relocated to Edmonton in 2018 when its lease expires. Immigration Minister John McCallum says there is a 'strong business case' for the move. He says federal department officials didn't inform him about this and he only learned about the meeting with workers via an anonymous call. When you take the ratios, we're losing a minimum of 200 jobs and if you took that same ratio population-wise to Edmonton, it would be like Edmonton losing 3,500 jobs, Hayduk said. Hayduk says the move and loss of more than 200 jobs will devastate the town of 6,000, as well as surrounding towns. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.