Lindsay Rubeniuk
Welcome to Is immigration for me Virtual Series 2023
Using Immigration for community & business
Let’s wait for lunch together! For session one Lindsay will welcome all the participants to the three-day luncheon series. Further, she will review what immigration is, and how it can be used to ensure the sustainability of businesses and communities. She will explain the key players in immigration and how they affect. We will also look at the “Red Herrings” of using immigration, what you have control over and what you usually do not.
Doug Griffiths
In this session we are going to talk about the Outsiders. Not the book. The people. The ones who think differently, who don’t know our past, and who pick our communities to live in, on purpose. We are going to discuss them and what they bring to the table, why we resist them and how important they are to our future. Join for a bit of laughter, a bit of wisdom, and a lot of new ideas.
Lindsay Rubeniuk
Immigration 101
Welcome to Immigration 101, or shall we say a preview of the basic requirements of immigration. In this session you will learn the basic importance of the TIER System (formally known as the National Occupation Classification) as well as the importance of the Canadian Language Benchmark. These are two of the most important fundamentals or most spoken about aspects in any immigration pathway and application process.
Lindsay Rubeniuk
Immigration Pathways for Business
Immigration is not just good for our communities and our economy. It is essential. That is why we as businesses need to understand how to attract and welcome newcomers who bring the skills our economy needs to help address acute labour shortages across the Prairies.
Leanne Bily
Using immigration to build your workforce
Russell Inn & Conference Centre
In this session we are going to talk about what it really takes to develop a skilled workforce utilising immigration. There is much more that goes into implementing an immigration strategy then just identifying how you may get workers into your business. This session is going to be honest. Oh there is so much more, such as where will these workers stay? How will they adapt to the area? What barriers were faced by the business? Was there any government support? If you are a business considering an overseas recruitment then grab your lunch, this will assist you to determine if an immigration strategy maybe an option for your business.
Ron Johnson
WisenUP Canada Podcast
An educated foreign skilled workforce already in Canada, who knew? Can they work for you?
You may not know this but there is an amazing skilled talent pool here in Canada who are waiting to be hired and have long-term careers with businesses like yours. This hidden talent is also looking for a community that offers a great quality of life where they work. Here’s the thing: if you don’t know about them, how are they to know about you? He will speak about the untapped talent your business can hire and in-turn what they can do for your business. He will also highlight the best way of recruiting this talent pool and what they are looking for in an employer. So join Ron for an after lunch chat about the untapped the Temporary Foriegn talent pool you may be able to access.
Lindsay Rubeniuk
Immigration & Settlement
Let’s chat about settlement and what this looks like for communities who have settlement offices and those who do not. Settlement is just as crucial as immigration because if you do not have a settlement plan, you simply do not have a retention plan! This session will provide insight into what resources are available for businesses and communities to access. Examples will also be provided about how some communities and businesses got creative to build these types of services.
Marylin Crewe
Town of Neepawa, Economic Development
Town of Neepawa
Hylife
Neepawa’s immigration is embedded in the community through their largest local employer, HyLife Foods. HyLife uses the Temporary Foreign Worker program to staff their pork processing plant. Those workers, and their immigrating families, have driven Neepawa’s population growth with over 50% increase in the past 10 years. Join this presentation to hear about what this rural community has learned along the way.
Pam Iwanchesyko
Parkland Ukraine Fund
This session is for those communities and businesses who just don’t know what settlement resources are available for newcomers and workers! The Parkland Ukraine Family Fund session will take a look at how a group of volunteers single handedly created a settlement strategy and tasked themselves to fundraise to support displaced Ukrainian families. The fund’s other main goal was to support the economic growth and development of the Dauphin area. PUFF has now brought in 20 families who have settled within Dauphin, you will learn how they found housing, dealt with transportation, identified employment opportunities and ensured schooling for their children and much more settlement resources.