Canada: New $1.9m grant helps agency promote immigrant hiring
May 20, 2009
A local agency that works with Ottawa employers to remove barriers to recruiting and retaining skilled immigrants says it will expand its activities after receiving a $1.9-million provincial grant.
Hire Immigrants Ottawa will form a new working group focused on the biotechnology sector, complimenting the present working groups concentrated on the health care, information technology, finance and public sectors.
'Bridging programs works,' said Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Michael Chan in a statement.
The Ottawa Business Journal
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