Federal and state labor ministers announced on Saturday that the state will have more than 18,000 places available in its program in 2025.
The economy depends on how the labor shortage can be solved. We have 300,000 job openings to date, says Ontario Secretary of Labor and Immigration Monte McNaughton.
He states that the province had far fewer bodies than the other provinces to choose the profiles needed.
In 2021, Ontario only allowed 9,000 people to participate in this program.
Thanks to the new agreement, 16,500 migrants will arrive in the province through the POCI in 2023, more than 17,000 in 2024 and more than 18,000 in 2025.
The Ontario Secretary of Labor points out that the healthcare sector and construction are among the most in-demand profiles in Ontario.
On the federal government side, Sean Fraser, Minister for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, adds that Ottawa continues to expand its migration policy.
Last summer there were 300,000 vacancies in Ontario and nearly a million vacancies across Canada. With so many vacancies, we will not be able to exploit our economic potential if we stop recruiting young people, explains the minister.
In his opinion, the issue is not only an economic one, but also a demographic one, since there are fewer and fewer workers compared to the pensioners.
If we don’t continue to get people into work in the next generation, it will no longer be about the shortage of workers, but about the ability to keep schools and hospitals open, he concludes. .