McCallum to review what is known as a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) — a document all employers need to hire foreign nationals over Canadian workers.  It is expected that there will be significant changes to the ESDC run program.
Businesses have said it is the biggest flaw with express entry, a requirement the previous government borrowed from the temporary foreign worker program.  The LMIA program also lacks transparency and accountability for poor ESDC agent decision making.  McCallum has indicated “…we’re going to reduce some of the barriers in our immigration system … we don’t think that every immigrant needs to go through what we call a labour market impact assessment process.”