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Federal Skilled Trades Class created

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

CountryCanada
Operative dateJanuary 2, 2013
CategoryNew pathway
Policy toolRegulation
Affected groupApplicants seeking permanent residence through the Federal Skilled Trades Class

Policy effect

Establishes the Federal Skilled Trades Class within the economic class under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations, introducing criteria for qualifying trade experience, offers of employment or provincial/territorial qualification certificates, and language requirements.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: Applicants had to meet the class's trade-experience and language requirements and hold a qualifying job offer or provincial or territorial certificate.

Official source excerpt

Quoted verbatim from the official source below. Ellipses indicate omitted text.

… on and the correlation of those results with the benchmarks under subsection (4) are conclusive evidence of the foreign national’s proficiency in the official languages of Canada for the purposes of subsection (1). TRANSITIONAL PROVISION 18. (1) A permanent resident visa application for the Canadian experience class that is made before the day on which section 13 comes into force will be processed in accordance with Part 6 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations as that Part read immediately before the coming into force of section 13. (2) A permanent resident visa application for the federal skilled worker class that is made before the day on which sections 9 to 12 come into force will be processed in accordance with Part 6 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations as that Part read immediately before the coming into force of sections 9 to 12. COMING INTO FORCE 19. (1) Subject to subsection (2), these Regulations come into force on January 2, 2013. (2) Subsection 5(1) to (3) and sections 6 and 7 and 9 to 12 come into force on May 4, 2013. REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT ( This statement is not part of the Regulations. ) Executive summary Issue: The Economic Action Plan 2012 announced the Government of Canada’s intention to build a fast and flexible economic immigration selection system with a primary focus on meeting Canada’s labour market needs. These needs are evolving, marked by an ageing workforce and an economy that has a growing requirement for highly skilled professionals, paired with emerging shortages in certain skilled trades. Limited access to the type of talent required by Canada’s labour market inhibits economic growth. Federal economic immigration programs seek to supplement domestic labour supply by selecting highly skilled applicants with work experience in managerial, professional, technical or trade occupati …
Canada Gazette, Part II, Vol. 146, No. 26SOR/2012-274; operative 2013-01-02.Open official source
Retrieved from https://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2012/2012-12-19/html/sor-dors274-eng.html

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