Canada being one of the most prosperous countries around has always attracted the immigrants. With the country coming up with more flexible immigrant programs, entrepreneurs can now try their fair luck and apply for immigrating to Canada through the skilled labor immigration program or the new program for professionals.

1. Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s 2013 national consultations on immigration levels
planning
Recently the consultation on immigration levels planning by the Citizenship and
Immigration services of Canada took place in which it was stressed that the current
immigration system should focus on managing multiple objectives. Hence the CIC has been
engaging in coming up with exercise of annual levels that can balance the several objectives of
the immigration program and also meet the commitments and the priorities of the governments
as they keep on coming up. It has been decided at the national consultation that the commitments
and objectives must be met by the annual levels plan and they should operate within the
stipulated constraint of limited admissions of immigrants every year.
What does the annual consultation say?
In the plan the number of persons who can come to Canada in the upcoming year has been
decided. Similarly, three classes for granting immigrant visas for permanent residents’ viz.
family, economic and protected person has been categorized. Each category has also been
provided with subcategories. The summer of 2011 saw CIC hold two separate but
complementary annual consultations on the topic of immigration and its various levels.
Similarly, Stakeholder consultation related to immigration level was also held in 2012. Regular
consultations at various levels between 750 stakeholder organizations were held in the past two
years who gave their inputs about the immigration levels and more consultations were carried out
online during 2012. The responses suggest a neutral or a positive experience related to the
existing immigration level of Canada. On the basis of these responses and inputs by various
stakeholders some evaluations were deduced that say:
“The immigration system firstly and fore mostly should come up with immigration plans that
support the economic needs of Canada and also should ensure that the immigrants are properly
stabilized in the country and are provided good enough opportunities for succeeding and
contributing to Canada’s economic growth.”
More consultations and responses
More cross-country consultations were carried out by Minister Jason Kenney who along with
Parliamentary Secretaries Chungsen Leung and Rick Dykstra pursued the immigration
consultation issue throughout. The main aim of this vast consultation process was to gather
responses and inputs on the immigration level of Canada and the right mix amongst the three
categories of immigrant- family, economic and protected persons. Since then, more consultations
have been carried out by the Canadian immigration consulate. The aim is to improvise the
existent level of immigration program for encouraging the entrepreneurs.

2. At present there are certain sectors of Canada that are jobless or are untapped and this is where
Canada intends to focus more. The main motive is to see the country develop from all the
quarters which is only possible if it becomes self-reliant in most of the fields. These untapped
sectors with vast potentials are currently the sore areas of Canada’s economy. That is why
through consultations it has been trying to evolve an immigration system that can excite and
stimulate the potential entrepreneurs to immigrate to Canada.