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FREE Webinar: Canadian and Provincial Immigration Challenges in 2025: Navigating the Impact on Employers and Workers
Date(s):
June 25, 2025
Venue:Online
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Website:Not available
Description:
This webinar will discuss how it is becoming significantly more difficult to recruit global talent and to retain such talent from a Canadian Immigration perspective. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) intends to approve 580,000 fewer temporary foreign workers and for 880,000 temporary residents to leave Canada this year. Employers will feel the impact of work permit and permanent residence program eligibility and operational restrictions, introduced since September 2024 and with potentially more to come. Understanding how to navigate these challenges will help employers continue to effectively recruit and retain top global talent.
In Partnership with:
Presenter: Craig Natsuhara, Partner, EY Law LLP (Click for Speaker's Bio)
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In this webinar, you will:
- learn about the direct and indirect restrictions and challenges temporary foreign workers and their spouses now face when applying for initial work permits and extending work permits, including the feasibility of sponsoring such workers for a Labour Market Impact Assessment, and how recruitment strategies should take these into account.
- gain deeper insights into the ongoing barriers temporary foreign workers face in purusing permanent residence, including the feasibility of sponsoring such workers for a BC provincial nomination.
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Who should attend:
• HR professionals who are involved in the employer's mobility or immigration program.
• HR managers who oversee such program and wish to gain a better understanding of the challenging Immigration environment that will likely exist until at least 2027.
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Format:
Live Online - Zoom Webinar
All login information will be sent to you via email the day prior to the session. Please check your junk/spam folder if it has not come through to your in-box.
Note: If you have not received your login access information the day prior to the webinar date, please email pd@cphrbc.ca or sign-in your CPHR BC & Yukon Portal (under "My Events") for the webinar instructions.
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Time:
9:30 - 10:30AM - Pacific Time / Yukon Time
Both registration and payment are required for every person attending this webinar. All enquiries can be directed to pd@cphrbc.ca.
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This webinar is complimentary to all CPHR BC & Yukon members. Register early to avoid disappointment!
Registration Fees
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Registration Deadline:
JUNE 23, 2025
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FREE!
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| Non-Member |
$69.99
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Fees & Cancellation Policy:
• Fees and/or agenda are subject to change without notice.
• All pricing excludes applicable taxes. HST/GST # 119446714
• A full refund, less a $10 processing fee, will be issued for cancellations submitted at least one week prior to an event or workshop. Attendee substitutions are permitted; however, member/non-member rate differences will apply. Please submit cancellation or substitution requests by e-mail (pd@cphrbc.ca).
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Sessions information is not available at this time.
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Craig Natsuhara
Organization: EY Law LLP
Craig Natsuhara is a Partner at EY Law LLP in Vancouver. He has practiced business immigration law since 2000.
He enjoys advocacy work, having initiated the project that led to the prior recruitment-exempt LMIA category for digital media and having provided input on formulating what became the Global Talent Stream LMIA. He has had the privilege of guiding many international companies with their expansion to BC and supporting local businesses and organizations with their recruitment and retention of global talent. He is passionate about supporting BC’s economy and assisting foreign nationals to work in this amazing province.
Craig is recognized by Lexpert, Best Lawyers, and Who’s Who Legal. He was the Chair of the CBABC’s Immigration Section from 2007 to 2009. He has been a member of the Immigrant Employment Council of BC (“IEC-BC”) Employer Advisory Group since 2018.
He is passionate about contributing to the community. He has been a volunteer Director of the SPARK Computer Graphics Society since 2011 and a volunteer Director (and past President) of the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre since 1998.
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Sponsor information is not available at this time.
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