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Designated Public Office Holders who participated in the communication:
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Arash Ramani,
Senior Advisor to Minister of Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
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List of Details
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Subject matter
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Detail
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Immigration
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Express Entry: The Canadian Meat Council is advocating that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada accommodate all “high demand occupations” including industrial butchers in the Express Entry Program that came into effect on January 1, 2015 without quota limitations. We are advocating for an adjustment to the National Occupation Classification for industrial butchers to Group B.
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Employment and Training
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Refugees: We are advocating for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to initiate efforts to direct refugee settlement to locations where individuals may be qualified, with training, to fill meat industry job vacancies. The Canadian meat industry also welcomes any other initiatives that will facilitate inter-provincial labour mobility of unemployed, under-employed and disadvantaged Canadians willing to work in our industry.
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Employment and Training,
Immigration,
Industry
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Temporary Foreign Worker Program: the Canadian Meat Council is advocating for the continued access for the Temporary Foreign Worker Program for Canada's meat industry. Nevertheless, and notwithstanding extensive efforts to recruit domestically, it is the reality of our industry that the number of workers required exceeds, by far, the number of both “lower-skilled” and “higher-skilled” Canadian candidates who are both willing and able to work in Canada's meat processing industry. There is now an application fee of $1000 per Temporary Foreign Worker- if a form has 1 employee or 100 employees the charge is $1000 per worker applied for. If the request is rejected the fee is not refunded. These fees seem much higher than a reasonable cost to process- especially when the request for multiple employees is rejected.
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Responsible Officer who filed this communication report:
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Nestor Plawiuk
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As the most senior paid officer, the person named above is responsible for certifying the communication report for the corporation or organization (Registrant). This person may or may not have participated in the reported communication. The Lobbyists Registration Regulations do not require that the names of in-house lobbyists (i.e. employees of corporations or organizations) who actually participated in the communication be disclosed.
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