globeandmail.com : Amnesty for foreign labourers ruled out

globeandmail.com : Amnesty for foreign labourers ruled out

globeandmail.com : Amnesty for foreign labourers ruled out

globeandmail.com : Amnesty for foreign labourers ruled out

TheStar.com - Province to continue campaign for funds

Province to continue campaign for funds
Will press Ottawa over $23 billion gap

Spending includes skills plan, health
Mar. 24, 2006. 01:00 AM
ROBERT BENZIE
QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF

The Liberal government's third budget concentrated on transportation in the GTA, but there's more to the $87.08 billion spending plan than red ink and Red Rockets.

Building on the $6.2 billion for higher learning over five years announced in the 2005 budget, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan unveiled a new "jobs and skills renewal strategy" that will be worth $2.1 billion annually by 2008-09.

The plan is directly tied to three labour-market and immigration deals reached last November with then-Liberal prime minister Paul Martin. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said his Tory government will honour the accords.

TheStar.com - Province to continue campaign for funds: "Province to continue campaign for funds
Will press Ottawa over $23 billion gap

Spending includes skills plan, health
Mar. 24, 2006. 01:00 AM
ROBERT BENZIE
QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF


The Liberal government's third budget concentrated on transportation in the GTA, but there's more to the $87.08 billion spending plan than red ink and Red Rockets.
Building on the $6.2 billion for higher learning over five years announced in the 2005 budget, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan unveiled a new 'jobs and skills renewal strategy' that will be worth $2.1 billion annually by 2008-09.
The plan is directly tied to three labour-market and immigration deals reached last November with then-Liberal prime minister Paul Martin. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said his Tory government will honour the accords."

TheStar.com - Tories begin deporting illegal workers

TheStar.com - Tories begin deporting illegal workers

globeandmail.com : Immigrant landing-fees to be cut in half

Toronto — Ottawa will forge ahead with a promise to halve immigrant-landing fees, but more intractable problems such as speeding up the landing process will have to wait, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Monte Solberg said Monday.

In his maiden speech as minister, Mr. Solberg said newcomers will pay half the current $975 fee to become permanent residents, with the $83-million fiscal hit to the treasury to be covered by surplus general revenues.

“Our efforts should be focused on welcoming newcomers and helping them fit in, not taxing them to death,” Mr. Solberg told a conference on immigration hosted by the Public Policy Forum.

“They'll get enough of that later.”

globeandmail.com : Immigrant landing-fees to be cut in half