Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

The longstanding bureaucratic logjam preventing much needed foreign qualified doctors from supplementing local skills shortfalls has been shaken loose while much improved rural and 'scarce skills' allowances are set to flow from July this year. Lobbying of the National Department of Health (DOH) by the Rural Doctors Association of South Africa (RUDASA), plus a court action in May 2001 by the Fo...