Immigration in Ontario

The Institute is funded by the Government of the previous publications, please visit Jacob Greenspon of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Growth. [...] The Institute set out to look at the state of immigration in Competitiveness & Prosperity Canada, as well as the economic outcomes of immigrants in Ontario, in the hope of generating policy options that will improve immigrants’ economic outcomes now and in the future. [...] In Ontario, a standalone agreement, the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Provincial Nominees (COAPN), was signed in 2015, The IRPA outlines the criteria for the family outlining that the federal and provincial and refugee and humanitarian classes, role in operating the PNP, known as the and application decisions are made by Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (OINP). [...] Yet, of all the immigrants language training as an integral part of who came to Canada in 2016, nearly half immigrant integration and support this of those in the family and refugee and with transfer payments to the Resettlement humanitarian classes went to Ontario Assistance Program (RAP).40 compared to only 29 percent of the economic class. [...] Similarly, changing the occupational makeup of immigrants to be the same as the Canadian- born group would increase average immigrant wages by 1.3 percent.59 24  INSTITUTE FOR COMPETITIVENESS & PROSPERITY Unexplained portion of Ontario’s This means that for two identical immigrant wage gap The unexplained portion of the immigrant individuals with the same wage gap can be interpreted as the portion