Centre-Sud-Ouest de l’Ontario

Nine conference participants posing in a hallway holding handwritten signs reading "Collaboration Go Team", "Concerned Resident", "Partners" and "Key Stakeholder".

The province will seriously pursue an immigration strategy similar to Quebec’s, which allows it to pick and choose its own immigrants, says Ontario’s immigration minister. […] The panel — comprising economists, people working in immigrant settlement, and corporate and industry leaders — said Ontario needs to attract at least 135,000 newcomers a year, raise the ratio of skilled workers and take charge of immigrant selection to keep its economic engine running beyond 2014.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1267050–ontario-wants-greater-power-on-immigrant-selection