Business People: Nominee Program and Alex Leblanc

business people: Really, it's our cities, it's our communities that are the brokers for inclusion, according to CBC. He proposed a municipal nominee program, similar to the provincial nominee program, which allows skilled workers and business people chosen from around the world to get into a faster track toward settling into a province that needs them in the workforce. Where immigration is controlled at a federal level, integration happens at a local level, Alex LeBlanc, the executive director of the council, said in a presentation to the standing committee on citizenship and immigration. Calls for pilot municipal project Give cities the responsibility of selecting people, in partnership with employers, and then give cities a greater role in the integration and retention process, said LeBlanc, who was asked to speak to the committee about immigration to Atlantic Canada. But LeBlanc wants a municipal program to complement the provincial one, and he recommended running a pilot project in New Brunswick. Using the provincial program, New Brunswick has brought in 625 immigrants a year to answer certain workforce needs, and this program has dramatically increased the traffic to New Brunswick, LeBlanc said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.