Wanted: 10,000 OFW's in Alberta Canada | DOLE | Skilled workers | professionals

Good news to all Pinoys who wants to work abroad specially in Canada. Western province of Alberta needs at least 10,000 Filipino workers mostly for highly skilled workers and professionals for its oil and gas industry as well as construction workers for its infrastructure projects.

Workers who qualify for work in Alberta will receive a monthly salary of 6,000 Canadian Dollars (US$ 5,700) for highly skilled welders, C$3,800 (US$ 3,600) for pipe fitters.

Aside from the oil and gas workers, Alberta would also require workers for food counters such as food attendants, food processors and butchers as well as nurses and caregivers. Visit POEA website for more info.

Kingston, Canada Invites Filipino Workers

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) informed that another Canadian province wants to attract Filipino workers. According to DFA, the mayor of Kingston Canada, Mayor Harvey Rosen expressed his goal to make the town of Kingston a key destination for migrant workers, specifically Filipinos.

The mayor relayed this during the recent visit of Philippine Ambassador to Canada, Jose Brillantes and other embassy officials in Kingston. The visit was a part of the Embassy’s outreach and information-dissemination program.

The Kingston mayor said that the Canadian town needs hardworking foreign workers such as Filipinos who could competently fill the jobs generated by businesses choosing to locate or expand in Kingston.

The mayor also said that Kingston is the center of eastern Ontario, and boasts of a strategic location as it has immediate and easy access to the major population centers of Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and even Syracuse, New York.

The mayor together with the Kingston Economic Development Corp. (KEDCO), Bill Gray, said that the town’s strategic location has made it attractive for such industries as transportation and logistics, business outsourcing, warehousing and distribution, information technology and knowledge-based innovation in biotechnology, health sciences and fuel cells.

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Canada invites more Filipino workers

Praising their admirable work ethics, the mayor of Kingston town in Ontario, Canada hopes to lure in more Filipino migrants to work there.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement on Friday that Kingston Mayor Harvey Rosen aspires to make his town a major destination for migrant workers, particularly Filipinos.

The Philippine embassy officials in Canada led by Ambassador Jose Brillantes visited Kingston as part of the Embassy’s outreach and information-dissemination program.

“[During the courtesy visit] Mayor Rosen said that, since Kingston is the hub of eastern Ontario, with immediate and easy access to the major population centers of Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and even Syracuse, New York, the city needs hardworking immigrants such as Filipinos who could competently fill the jobs generated by businesses choosing to locate or expand in Kingston," the DFA statement read.

The DFA also said that according to Rosen and Bill Gray of the Kingston Economic Development Corp. (KEDCO) the town’s strategic location has made it attractive for such industries as transportation and logistics, business outsourcing, warehousing and distribution, information technology and knowledge-based innovation in biotechnology, health sciences and fuel cells.

“With Kingston considered as one of the top 25 cities in Canada, the Mayor said he hopes for Kingston to be a major immigrant destination, particularly for Filipinos," the statement added.

Kingston Ontario- Canada’s first capital- has been tagged as the “Limestone City" because of the many historic buildings made from limestone

Canadian Embassy gears up for more VISA applicants

Canada is sending more immigration officers to its embassy in Manila in preparation for the expected huge volume of visa applications in the Philippines.

The embassy’s visa processing offices will also be renovated for expansion to accommodate more applicants, according to Canada’s Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration in a statement on Monday.

Canada has opened its labor market to Filipino workers, with the provinces of Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Manitoba signing agreements with the Philippines on the recruitment of Filipino workers. The province of Alberta is working out a similar agreement with the Department of Labor and Employment.

“Our government supports the Filipino community in Canada. There has been a longstanding concern that processing times needed to improve. Today, we are taking action and committing more resources to help applicants from the Philippines," said Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration.

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada will be reconfiguring existing offices and adding new space at the Canadian Embassy to accommodate Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) program needs.

Starting middle of this year, CIC will add three additional Canada-based immigration officers and four locally-engaged staff to work at the embassy. More CIC staff could be added the following year, the ministry advisory stated.

The increase in staff is also intended to address the increased volume of temporary foreign worker applications while at the same time ensuring that processing times for other lines of service are also improved.

The number of temporary workers coming to Canada from around the world has soared in recent years in an effort to meet this country’s labor market needs.

In 2006, Canada welcomed 8,529 temporary foreign workers from the Philippines. This number is expected to continue to grow in response to increasing demands from Canadian employers for temporary workers.

-via gma news