IT Pilot Project for Temporary Foreign Workers to End

Once the IT Pilot Project comes to an end on September 30, 2010, Canadian employers will no longer be able to take advantage of the expedited process for bringing foreign information technology (IT) specialists to Canada, unless they are hiring for positions in Québec. In Québec, the facilitated process will remain in place for a limited time.

In a previous TLQ article, we discussed the IT Pilot Project, a collaboration between Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Human Resources Development Canada (now called Service Canada), Industry Canada, and the Software Human Resource Council (SHRC). This project streamlined the entry of those workers whose skills are in high demand in the software industry and whose entry into the Canadian labour market would have no negative impact on Canadian job seekers and workers.