{"id":594996,"date":"2026-04-10T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594996\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:16:08","slug":"ottawa-looking-to-streamline-express-entry-programs-into-one-pathway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594996\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa looking to streamline Express Entry programs into one pathway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Currently, IRCC and ESDC conduct employer compliance inspections under the IMP and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, respectively.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBoth departments use similar tools, processes, and authorities, which has resulted in a duplication of effort, oversight, and internal service demands,\u201d IRCC says. \u201cThe aim of this transfer will be to simplify the compliance landscape for employers, while supporting more coherent federal oversight under a single department and ensuring worker protection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to IRCC, \u201cthe proposed regulatory change is expected to have minimal impact on employers and temporary foreign workers using the IMP.\u201d The department adds that the transfer \u201cis anticipated to reduce administrative burden and improve clarity on compliance expectations\u201d and that the changes \u201care unlikely to increase employer obligations under the IMP and will not adversely impact temporary foreign workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The public \u201cmay have the opportunity to comment\u201d through pre\u2011publication in the Canada Gazette, Part I, according to IRCC, giving HR departments using the IMP and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program a chance to respond to the proposed model.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has made numerous changes to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/recruitment\/ottawa-working-on-changes-to-temporary-foreign-worker-program-reports\/549835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">immigration policies<\/a> in the past couple of years. But not all stakeholders are happy about the changes. Recent federal immigration policy changes are expected to intensify chronic labour shortages in Canada\u2019s restaurant sector, with more than half of operators anticipating a negative impact on their businesses, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/ca\/specialization\/recruitment\/immigration-policy-changes-deepen-labour-shortages-for-canadian-restaurants-industry-warns\/565344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Restaurants Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Currently, IRCC and ESDC conduct employer compliance inspections under the IMP and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, respectively.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,11963,6680,225947,20739],"class_list":["post-594996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-express-entry","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-refugees-and-citizenship-canada-ircc","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}