Province Building Ontario by Doubling Economic Immigration

Monte McNaughton, Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, was joined by Sean Fraser, Federal Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, to announce how the government is doubling the number of economic immigrants it selects in 2025 to over 18,000 to help solve the province’s critical labour shortage.

With nearly than 300,000 jobs going unfilled daily, this will allow Ontario to select more of the workers needed to fill gaps in critical industries like the skilled trades, technology and health care.

In April 2021, Premier Ford and Minister McNaughton called on the federal government to double the number of immigrants allowed under the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) to help tackle the labour shortage. Ontario reached its allocation of 9,750 immigrants through the OINP in 2022, including 3,200 900 skilled trades workers, 2,300 200 software and IT workers, and nearly 100 of nurses and personal support workers.

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