Ontario requests Migration Program to bring drivers
TORONTO, Canada-Today 's Trucking-May 10, 2005 - Trucking Association Ontario-OTA-, is inviting the government to join Ontario on the most other provinces in the launch of a Provincial Nominee Program for Immigration-PNP.
In two strong letters to the Federal Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Joe Volpe, and Prime Minister of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, written by OTA President David Bradley, asked the two levels of government to consider such a program, which would make it easier to immigrate to foreign truckers and working as truck drivers in Ontario.
OTA states that Ontario is one of if not the only province in Canada, which has no related PNP program.
provincial nomination programs-PNP - such as Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, take temporary foreign drivers and expedite their use in Canada through the recruitment of workers foreigners and a temporary work permit. Once placed in these provinces, the worker, with the help of the PNP and the new pattern, you can then ask the federal government for permanent residence. processing time of visa PNP takes six months to a year, while it could take 2 to 6 years if Citizenship and Immigration Canada control the whole process for some immigrants.
Without provincial programs, truck drivers recruited from overseas do not qualify for direct federal selection for permanent residence because they are not qualified by the Federal Government as skilled workers.
To recruit foreign drivers in Alberta for example, potential employers must have demonstrated efforts to hire Canadians, cover all recruitment costs, pay off the employee air travel, and provide health coverage for workers and their families, until the worker is eligible for provincial health insurance.
In his letters, Bradley said that Ontario is facing a shortage of 15,000 to 20,000 drivers a year for the next five years, at least.
However, the transport industry in Ontario is currently warns drivers to bring foreign coach because, despite the overwhelming need for new drivers, and "for reasons that defy logic, truck drivers are not judged as a skilled occupation, for immigration purposes. "
Bradley concluded his letters requesting meetings with Volpe and McGuinty to discuss this further.
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