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Canada will allow eight more airports to accept international flights starting at the end of this month, as travel increases following the COVID-19 pandemic, says Transport Minister Omar Alghabra. “Increased vaccination levels have allowed us to safely re-open these additional Canadian airports to international passenger flights,” said the transport minister in a statement. “This measure
Six years almost to the day after being first elected to the House of Commons, Nova Scotia’s Sean Fraser was sworn in as Canada’s minister responsible for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Tuesday. He replaces Marco Mendicino who was moved over to the now much leaner Department of Public Safety during Prime Minister
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Nova Scotia MP Sean Fraser as Canada’s new minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) on Tuesday during a Cabinet reshuffle roughly a month after the last federal election. First elected to Parliament only five years ago, Fraser was sworn in Tuesday. A lawyer by profession, Fraser’s last role
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government got the vote of confidence it needed from Canadians Monday to form another minority government, paving the way for an even greater push for more immigration to the country. The ruling Liberal Party of Canada pledged many improvements to the immigration system on the campaign trail. As it became
Wait times for immigration applications would be dramatically cut under a Conservative government due to the creation of an expedited processing stream for those who can afford it. “All revenues from this expedited processing fee will be directed towards hiring additional people to streamline processing wait lines even more,” Erin O’Toole’s Conservative Party promises in
In a deal still under wraps, the Province of Quebec is thought to be only days away from inking a deal with Ottawa to allow businesses to hire twice as many temporary foreign workers. The French-language daily newspaper La Presse reported today that Quebec businesses would be able to hire enough temporary foreign workers to
Canada has extended both international travel restrictions and the closure of the border with the U.S. for another month, until July 21, 2021. Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, made the announcement in a tweet on Friday, June 18. The restrictions had been due to expire on June 21. Our number one
With the summer tourism season now here and vaccination rates in Canada and the United States rising – and new daily cases of COVID-19 falling – there is a growing hope the border between the two countries will once again open and allow a more normal flow of Canadians and Americans travelling back and forth.
Canada is working on a plan to ease border restrictions for travellers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Bloomberg is reporting. Quoting sources familiar with the plan, the news agency says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could make an announcement within days on a loosening of the 14-day isolation period currently required. Those entering Canada will
Canadian Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino is in talks with his American counterpart, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, to re-open the Canada-U.S. border as the COVID-19 pandemic gradually comes under control. “Today, I spoke with my U.S. counterpart (U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security) Alejandro Mayorkas,” tweeted Mendicino on Thursday. “We advanced our partnership on
