Eligibility
If you want to participate, your community must meet certain criteria. The pilot will launch in a small number of communities. This means your community may not be selected, even if it meets all the criteria.
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To be eligible to participate, your community must:
have a population of:
- 50,000 people or less and be located at least 75 km from the core of a Census Metropolitan Area
or
- up to 200,000 people and be considered remote from other larger cities (using Statistics Canada’s index of remoteness)
be in:
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
👉have job opportunities
👉have an economic development plan
👉have a local economic development organization that can
manage the pilot for your community
👉be able to settle new immigrants in the community by having or developing:
➧relationships with local or regional immigrant-serving organizations
➧opportunities to connect newcomers with established members of the community, such as through mentoring or networking
➧access to key services like
♦education
♦housing
♦transportation
♦health care
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You must also have the support, shown through letters of support, of:
- the municipality (local leaders) and
- a local or regional immigrant-serving organization
We encourage communities with French-speaking populations to apply and identify themselves in their application.