While the Quebec government wants to control immigration to protect the French language, Ontario wants to fill its labour-force shortages, provincial labour minister Monte McNaughton said.
Ontario Labour Minister Monte McNaughton attends a news conference in Toronto in June 2020.
Ontario’s immigration minister says he’s planning to ask his federal counterpart to give the province more control over which immigrants are selected for the province in order to fill skills gaps in the workforce. “I think one of the greatest economic challenges we have in Ontario today is that 340,000 jobs are going unfilled,” Monte McNaughton said on the steps of Queen’s Park Friday, shortly after he was sworn in as minister of labour, immigration, training and skills development.
McNaughton served as labour minister in the previous cabinet and has been credited with boosting the Ford government’s relationship with blue-collar voters, helping the party win new seats in the June election. While the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program was part of his portfolio, immigration as a whole was not.
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