ARCHIVED – Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot: Community application criteria
Eligibility
The pilot will launch in a small number of communities. This means your community may not be selected, even if it meets all the criteria.
To be eligible to apply to participate, communities had to:
- have a population of:
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50,000 people or less and be located at least 75 km from the core of a Census Metropolitan Area
or
- up to 200,000 people and be considered remote from other larger cities (using Statistics Canada’s index of remoteness)
- be in:
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- Northwest Territories
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
- have job opportunities
- have an economic development plan
- have a local economic development organization that can manage the pilot for your community
- be able to settle new immigrants in the community by having or developing:
- relationships with local or regional immigrant-serving organizations
- opportunities to connect newcomers with established members of the community, such as through mentoring or networking
- access to key services like:
- education
- housing
- transportation
- health care
- have letters of support from:
- the municipality (local leaders) and
- a local or regional immigrant-serving organization
We encourage communities with French-speaking populations to apply and identify themselves in their application.
Economic development organizations
An economic development organization has:
- economic development as a central part of its mandate
- an economic development or strategic plan, or would fall under a broader economic development plan
- available resources to participate in the pilot
This organization could be:
- a community futures organization
- a chamber of commerce
- another independent or not-for-profit economic development organization
- a hybrid organization of a municipality with an independent board of directors made up of community stakeholders
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