Saskatchewan Immigration & Jobs in Saskatchewan with Daria Coneghan of IRIS in Regina, Saskatchewan. Canada - VIDEO PODCAST
In this Bernie Chats episode, for JobsinCanada.com, Bernie chats with Daria Coneghan of IRIS in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Together, they explore how entrepreneurs & workers can immigrate to and set up business in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Daria Coneghan is an Entrepreneur and President of Reach International Recruitment & Immigration Services, based in Regina Saskatchewan.
This podcast was originally recorded in late 2021. The main information remains current at time of publishing.
Topics, full transcript & timeline is listed Below.
YouTube Transcript:
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immigration to saskatchewan canada for entrepreneurs and workers welcome to this bernie chats with daria conahan
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president reach international recruitment and immigration services
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hello everybody welcome to bernie chats we’re recording on behalf of jobs in canada.com today and we’re joined by
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daria conahan ceo of reach international recruitment and immigration based out of
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saskatchewan canada daria thanks for joining us how are you today i’m doing great i’m in sunny saskatchewan it’s
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great here so how are things going in saskatchewan as far as the skills market the labor market how’s how’s that
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looking these days especially in light of the pandemic well we’ve got the pandemic to deal with
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but saskatchewan is booming really we just announced that cargill is putting a
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huge plant in here and also grant industries is
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putting in a 1.3 million dollar edition that’s going to add more jobs and and
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you’re quite involved in the agricultural side and the hospitality side i remember you told me
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well a little bit i mean you can’t be from saskatchewan and not be involved in agriculture right i suppose yeah yeah
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yeah for our listeners saskatchewan is uh very spread out it’s not very concentrated in the cities the cities
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are not that large they’re about what 200 000 people in a province of what about 1.1 million
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something like that something like that 1.3 we have a lot of space
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yeah so there’s a lot of a lot of nice towns whereas manitoba tends to be more centralized over half the population is
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in winnipeg for instance and there’s very few cities outside of winnipeg yeah i mean these are regina saskatoon
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prince albert right we have some great little towns and and uh helmets outside but
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uh we’re largely agriculture we have a lot of pot we’re very diverse we have a lot of
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lentils so agriculture is big here it’s a gamut of
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skills and trades here when you talk about the factory that’s being built by cargill do
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you have any idea what kind of scale that that project’s going to be and is it primarily cattle related no i don’t
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think it’s cattle related and i honestly i don’t know much about it except that everyone was doing a big happy dance and
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i think they said 1500 jobs 1500 jobs that’s a lot yeah do you think the current
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labor availability in saskatchewan can sustain that or will they have to bring in people from outside of saskatchewan
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or outside of canada i think you’re going to have to bring people in it’s very tough to get workers right now
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the jobs are there as we reopen especially in in different
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sectors i know hospitality industry is opening up again and they’re not finding
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enough workers i i would imagine that we’ll have to bring in or
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you know another route to go for someone looking to have a career here in the
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skills and trades we have absolutely fantastic education systems um sas
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polytech is the skills and trades if i were looking for my child to get into something i would see wow saskatchewan’s
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booming here’s a school get them into a trade get them in through apprenticeship
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great so is there anything about saskatchewan that makes it unique from other other provinces regarding
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occupation lists for entry or or the pnp program or anything like that
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an immigrant nominee program simp uh has several sectors there’s several
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streams and instead of having a list of jobs that they accept they have a list that
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they don’t accept because many so there’s a an occupation’s exclusion list in here
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occupation isn’t on that list you’re eligible to apply for occupations
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and demands and occupations in demand are our occupations that saskatchewan needs
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now or is going to need in the future and so you can apply for that without a
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job offer and that’s very unique so you can apply to come in without having a job lined up
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right you need to score they have a grid and so you score 60 points or higher
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right be honest it’s higher the competition would dictate that they would pick the highest numbers
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absolutely that’s a great program our clb is lower at uh clb4 that’s to do with your
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language score okay so clb is a language score yeah and and are they open to french and english
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or is it only english no open to french and english and if you have both you get more points bonus
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points for sure um so there’s occupations in demand and
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then there’s expressed entry and then of course there’s the job offer there’s farm
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there’s so many streams one thing for sure that people your listeners need to know is that we always need an education
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credential assessment done it’s fairly easy to get they don’t have to pay someone like me to get it they can go to
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wes.org and apply and it just verifies their
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education that they’re claiming so it’s a educational verification is it instant or does it have to be researched and
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then come back to them and it comes back to them so there’s a time academic it has been taking time and going through
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the pnp program you do need a french or an english language test i primarily
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work in saskatchewan right recently branched out to nova scotia as well when
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you go to nova scotia do you bring your zebras with you yeah that’s my staff and you know what they’re so good
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[Laughter] they don’t do what i tell them but they listen so they’re actually foreign
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workers yes [Laughter] they got their pr
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they got their pr that’s great um step in and say one thing about that’s very unique about
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saskatchewan uh is that if someone a foreign worker were to come and they’re in a skilled
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trade or management position they can apply for pr within after six months
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oh yeah in saskatchewan i just want to unpack that a little bit in saskatchewan if you secure a job
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work in that position for six months then you can apply for for a permanent
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residence right whereas in most provinces it’s a year or two yeah
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great that’s really good and what about for students what’s that path like in saskatchewan
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it’s it’s pretty good um we have a great university i well i graduated university of regina more times
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so once they they’ve graduated and they can get a postgraduate work permit which will allow them to work for
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an employer and then again after six months through saskatchewan experience
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they can apply great well another thing about our program is that if you apply through the oid
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through occupations in demand or express entry and you have a relative in saskatchewan you get more points
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that’s good because that’s more likely to keep you there if you have some some roots there or some family or some
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support network right exactly support network and show you around town and show you how to get
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your banking and right and and there’s less likelihood of uh getting homesick being lonely you have
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you create another family right more or less so daria what are you focused on these
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days what is your your main focus my i started in this industry because i love travel i’ve been to i think
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31 countries i like learning about different cultures and things like that and
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then this started opening up i thought wow this does everything but i also have a passion for business which which
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programs are you most uh familiar with that we can dig in a little bit is it student programs or or is there any
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quite a bit of students with with the u of r and it’s it’s fairly seamless the thing with
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the students is they have to have their eca done of course
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uh the educational credential assessments right that we discussed before their language tests they can come for
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esl let’s say you have someone who wants to
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go to school and do their certificate diploma va first of all it should be in line with
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what you’ve been doing previously you can’t suddenly say i’ve been you
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know doing something for 10 years and now i want to get into this
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really easy route right right so and if you don’t have your language
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test you can get a conditional approval so that you can write your or
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you take an esl class here but just because the school has invited you does not mean the visa officer will
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let you in okay that’s really important because i have no control school has no
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control so it should be in line with with what you’re capable of doing what your
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interests are and go from there so to unpack that a little bit um
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you can you can get a visa to study english in preparation for a course so you could say i’m i’m going
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to take dental hygiene let’s say or whatever whatever the demand is that falls in line with your previous
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occupation and before that you could study english conditionally in other words i’m
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assuming that you have to pass it in order to continue on right
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right yeah now because of colbit um the government has allowed people to study
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from their own country right i was wondering about that i was wondering if
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well there’s that and i was wondering about the working side of that too but why don’t you finish that and i’ll go to the working side well you know um
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a lot of people it’s not just that canada doesn’t want people coming in
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a lot of people are afraid to come in they may be in a country that has
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you know less cases than us right right and they want to stay home so
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they’re allowed to now uh stay home and do up to 50 percent
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or more i think you may might have even changed it of their program and still go towards post-graduate work permit
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so so you could have a study visa and do fifty percent of your studying in
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your home country and the other 50 percent on the ground in the institution or the the educational facility in
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saskatchewan right and they may have to change that um
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i haven’t done processed any under that right so every day things are changing
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so it is um it’s tough to to give that’s that’s why
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i guess my job is here because i have to say i literally read about an hour’s worth of changes every day wow to keep
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up it comes through my desk and and things and you know let’s face it during this
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crisis this pandemic most of us we’ve never experienced one before so we’re all on the fly whether
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we’re politicians or employers or whoever we’re kind of navigating our way through it the best we can
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um we’re making the rules as we play the game yeah we do want students and it is
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getting safer here we’re all being vaccinated and things are opening up
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so uh hopefully that the foreign worker that will open up more
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and now that now they’ve said that if someone is double vaccinated and they won’t have to
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do the government quarantine the hotel so that that’s huge because that was falling on
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the employers to pay that and you know when you’re going in first of
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all temporary foreign workers are a big investment for an employer right
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and they’re a big investment from both sides so if you just go well maybe i’ll wait
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this one out so i do think that the gates are going to open soon i’m hoping
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so when you say a big investment for an employer what are the aspects of that investment what what
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considerations are there for employers well employers who want to hire on their
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own it’s a lot of time you know you advertise one
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one job you and you’re gonna get 300 work you know applications going through
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all them to me see of course we have to hire a canadian permanent
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resident first and foremost and if there’s one available to do the job then you must hire a canadian but you
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screen all 300 applicants to see where they’re from
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you have to open every single one and then go and if you can’t find a canadian or permanent residence it involves
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interviewing them checking their education checking their credentials
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you know interviewing them also pay for the advertising
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if you’re doing an lmia a permit it’s a thousand dollars
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if they’re coming in and they have to be quarantined you pay for the quarantine and you pay their wages while they’re in
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quarantine oh okay so that is an investment it is a huge investment and and
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often people foreign workers um may not be able to hit the ground
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running maybe they need to a bit of adjustment into canadian culture into the way things are
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done skills and trades and so there’s there’s that so we’re really
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you know at my company we’re really about connecting the right people with the
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right employers we want them to stay we want them to be happy and
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business to boom great that’s awesome that’s great information so digging into a little bit about the
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the considerations for employers what happens with with medical when when
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a foreign job seeker comes in are they automatically on the medical system or do they have to wait three months or how
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does that work uh that’s one of the great things about saskatchewan is you have your medical
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and that’s not the same in every province no we’re at home with tommy douglas we’re all american yeah that’s right for
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people who don’t know the uh the medical system as we know it medicare was
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uh originated with one of the politicians from saskatchewan uh douglas
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um and and so does the the foreign recruiter the your yourself as a foreign recruiter do you check the references
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for these people or does the employer have to do that no we do that and we check um we make sure that they’re
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translated we make sure that we verify that they came from there that they’re translated to english
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that um you know the eca the education credential assessment is done through
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usually wes and we check the validity of their aisles and all that kind of stuff and
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also we do check their medical and their criminal background okay so you do a criminal record check you check their
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medical to make sure they don’t have ailments that they’re going to become a burden to the medical system on right
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right or an ineffective worker right right um
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do you do a credit check on them somebody asked me about that because they do credit check on their employees
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no okay i i mean that could easily be done right
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yeah that wouldn’t no i mean which depending which country i guess right and how formal they
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i we do it for the business people okay right but i’ve never had that come
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across for a worker but i don’t think it would be yeah i was surprised an hr person asked me that question
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um how how are the terms for foreign workers one year two year three year
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it depends on what what the employer wants okay and generally
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behind it is you know what if i’m hiring a foreign worker and i put in two years i really
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want to keep them right for sure you’ve made a big investment yeah the goal is to keep them and keep
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them with your company grow with your company they’ve had two years and they know it
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yeah you they’re more self-sufficient at that point and the reason you got them in the first place is because you couldn’t find anybody to start with
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right there there are some occupations um like in in agriculture that the
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temporary farm workers are seasonal right a lot of people from mexico come up to work in the fields and vineyards
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things like that and they don’t necessarily want to stay so what kind of yeah because they are
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making money to support their family back home right right it makes sense i know in british
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columbia back about 10 years ago when i read the act the agricultural worker act for british
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columbia it included uh transportation to and from uh latin america or wherever their
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country was for i think it was at least one fight back and forth
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per year so yeah under this there’s different not
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codes um right o is management is management b is skilled
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c is less c and d or lesser skill under the lesser-skilled trades
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an employer is obligated to pay the airfare okay great and so how does
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saskatchewan’s agricultural worker program work is it similar to other ones is it is it a possible track in as a
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permanent residence or how do how does it work for yeah there is
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um there is a way for under the saskatchewan experience
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for agriculture there’s an agriculture pilot project that
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actually it’s a federal stream too that will allow people to come in
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and get permanent residency okay great and you you sorry you used a name there
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that slipped my mind the the program that you mentioned uh experience saskatchewan so can you tell me a little
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bit about the saskatchewan experience program well that’s what we were talking about earlier if you’ve had six months
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experience in saskatchewan you’re eligible to apply i see that’s the program called saskatchewan experience
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wonderful so one of the things i was wondering about about getting canadian work work
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experience that maybe you can answer for me there’s a lot of people working remotely right now and a lot of companies want
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their employees to work remotely so if for instance a company here wants to hire a foreign
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worker who happens to be in let’s pick france uh and they want to hire them to work
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for their company which is based in regina and then that and you see where i’m going with this that that company that
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person works for that company for two years is that canadian work experience
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and does that count towards their qualifications for
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permanent residency go ahead funny you asked me that because i just asked that
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question yesterday um and the answer is no the answer is
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from saskatchewan or from feds from wherever in canada i asked a colleague okay
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because that’s uh um i’m hiring right now and i found some in
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a different country and i had hoped because of covid i had hoped
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that we could start um okay so so working in another country
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for a company that has their employees working remotely currently does not apply to canadian work experience it has
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to be work experience in canada uh on the ground you have to be living here
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for that time to qualify okay that’s good that’s good to know yeah now someone has a company in another
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country and wants to establish here their top management they’re skilled
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people over just to work at the company okay an inter-company transfer there’s so
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many streams what skills are more in demand in saskatchewan right now that you’re seeing come across your desk are
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you seeing more administrative more agriculture more hospitality i mean what kind of numbers uh there’s more
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hospitality okay right now and i’ve heard that across the country
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because the hospitality industry you can’t work from home
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right and i think a lot of hospitality workers who’ve been affected by kovid
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have realized this is not that secure if there’s ever another repeat of covet and currently it’s up and down
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so a lot of them are taking the opportunity to retrain maybe get it financed by serb or
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whatever program is available right and take another career path right
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and yeah and it’s tough my son’s a cook and two people on like one on each side of
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them tested positive oh really wow and there’s nothing that hits reality
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like going to see your son and dropping groceries off while he’s on the other side of a door
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right so a lot of the people don’t want to come back maybe into the industry or i don’t know
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but for whatever reason um that seems to be the big one if you have
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you know if you are in an administrative or managerial position
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you can do that remotely a lot easier right
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and and so like saskatchewan being a let me repeat that saskatchewan being a
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large agricultural producer i’m assuming there’s a fair amount of food processing companies there too or are there
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uh there are that i mean we’ve got a couple big lentils
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we’ve got the sask wheat pool that is a co-op but we don’t have a lot of huge large
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industries so you don’t have companies that are making
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mass quantities of bread or cereal boxes or or
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not that i know of okay yeah yeah i know at one time they were trying to to uh acquire those kinds of
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processors because it makes sense i mean go to the source and produce it there and then ship it out but then i guess
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they want to ship the raw materials like we tend to do in canada ship the raw materials and have it
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processed uh closer to the population well here are the big farms i mean
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really really big farms and one of the i was on a conference call and one of the issues that came up for
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agriculture is that the farmers here they want a worker who
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understands the community aspect of how we are here right we’re community
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oriented and we have to be when it’s freezing cold out you have to be a good person so someone
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will come boost your car push you over the snow bank for sure each other out to survive here they want that but they
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they also need um it’s a whole new world you may have a tractor that has three computers on it
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somebody who’s computer savvy you know the younger generation
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they’re just born with these things in their hand where so we need that that input and and know
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how to do that so there’s a disconnect i think in
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what we need and what we can get also our tractors things like that may
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not be the same as in in a foreign country
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they may be more technologically well phil and and from what i’ve seen saskatchewan and other countries the
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equipment in saskatchewan is massive huge i mean you got huge combines and
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you know they’re they’re industrial size they’re not just little tractors yeah it’s crazy
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i went out yeah you know bought rural right i’m saying wow look at that
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tractor i never thought that it’s impressive
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i guess the other thing in saskatchewan too is mining and open pit mining potash stuff like that is that still a going
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concern that we are i think we’re amongst the biggest in the world here
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say it again please sorry that’s plain uh up north we have you know cigar lake
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we have uh kojima and camaco are the two big mining companies here okay and do
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you know if they um hire foreign workers they probably do
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um okay i haven’t been really in touch with them so much now when you look at up north the oil
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fields and the mining took a big hit right it did yeah with a drop in
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commodities prices really dropped and i think people were laid off and
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but it’s picking up again you know great so what why don’t we
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sorry go ahead we’ve done remarkably well through this pandemic good really have things are happening
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here oh that’s great great so why don’t we dig into two things then
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uh i want to ask you a little bit more about students and a little bit more about
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your business uh startup program so so with the students what advice do
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you have for students or people that want to take the student path in
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in getting their permanent residency in canada so to to enter the student path
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and become canadian citizens eventually take your courses carefully get them in
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line with what what you know what you’re passionate about find a course that’s
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a good fit for you that will give you a post-graduate work permit
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two things you know we might be able to help out and i’ll give a plug at students at riri
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i have a director that will help out choosing a course and a path
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we work with any school or institution in canada but primarily with the university of regina
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and i find that works because i’m five minutes away i’ve worked there i’ve graduated from there i know it’s it’s a
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great school um but as i said previously sas polytech is a
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fantastic skills reach international will be implementing
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a direct student to work to pr
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program for select probably starting in agriculture maybe some health care and hospitality
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and that’ll be in 2022 and it’ll be a pilot project for us
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where we will assist people who come into one of the industries if
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it’s hospitality tourism it would be because that fits with our other area
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or ag something like that and they take their their course they get their
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postgraduate work permit will give them some canadian experiences some saskatchewan experience that they can go
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into sorry can you you got that the bell again can you repeat that yeah i don’t even know how to turn it off i’m sorry no worries
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but uh like i’m saying let’s say we have someone going into hospitality and
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tourism then we’ll get help them get into school get into the appropriate program
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and when they’re done we’ll give them an internship or work experience program
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for at least the six months that will qualify them for pr
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great that’s that’s super yeah i’m finding you know i’m a parent and i see all these moms
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and dads sending their children to canada for a better life and
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they go into courses like when i went to school everybody got a bachelor of psychology
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and did nothing with it and so i really want to help these people send their children here and say here
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here’s a great path to go on and maybe they won’t stay on
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that path but i’ll sure open their eyes and they’ll be exposed to different things they might be our next restaurant
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owner you know or or entrepreneur or you know start farming or do something
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i think it’s kind of my passion you know to help people out like that and that’s
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wonderful i think having that that kind of insight and experience uh to learn from and and choose a path i think is
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going to be really helpful for a lot of people it’s um it’s hard to have the kind of foresight
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and stuff when you’re a young person you haven’t really connected all the dots yet right
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yeah so that’s good so what kind of resources if somebody wants to do that take that path what kind of resources should they
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have and what kind of steps should they take to get started i mean every every path starts with one step right right
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right well first of all i mean again if they email us
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we can help them do that and and just for we have different people in charge of different areas so
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it’s students at riri.ca business at
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riris.ca you know employers at riri.ca and it helps because we get so many
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so many things um sure you can stream them to the right people right and you know if they forget that just go to our
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website ri r-i-r-i-dot-c we have so much information but if someone wants to
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you know go and help needs help on a direct path to pr um they can certainly email us and we’ll
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see how they can fit into a school and get them into that so that they can go
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on to what they need to do excellent uh you know if i can say
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if you know if you are going through a consultant uh you
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honestly you get what you deserve if you don’t go through somebody who’s licensed and i can’t stress that enough there’s
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so many what we call ghost consultants out there who aren’t licensed and i for instance i’m licensed
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in canada through iccrc they have everybody listed on their website you can check people out
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yeah so so the takeaway there is if you’re if you’re uh dealing with somebody about immigrating to canada
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and you want to check their credentials you can simply just go to the ircc iccrc
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the ic crc website yeah and and put in their information and make sure they’re
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a registered uh immigration consultant right but in saskatchewan you have to also be licensed there
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so you may be on the iccrc site right and saying oh i can get you a job or
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whatever in saskatchewan and if you’re not licensed here it’s still illegal and also in nova
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scotia and how would you ver how would you verify lawyer credentials
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for a foreign if you want to go through a lawyer i would imagine just the bar
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so you’d check the the saskatchewan bar and then the bar over each different province to make sure they’re they’re uh
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red they’re they actually have their bar and they’re registered um as lawyers in that province
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yeah yeah don’t believe on their website just because it says on a website
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doesn’t mean it’s true yeah and it’s heartbreaking how many people i get that have spent tens and thousands
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of dollars really yeah well a lot so
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on that note do you want to share roughly what you what somebody should expect to pay as a job seeker or as an
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employer for either going through a process or to come into
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canada or to um to recruit foreign job seekers what is
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there a number you can share with us that would be like an industry standard or expectation industry standard okay
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there isn’t there really isn’t um we’re all private practices
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so it’s not you know it’s um i guess the key
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takeaway from that is shop around but i may charge you 200 an hour
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and you may charge 400 an hour but you might get it done in half an hour and i’ll take six hours yup okay so so i
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think you have to weigh uh the knowledge of the person and um generally under our oath we don’t
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take cases that we’re not confident in so if i’m not sure about something i will
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go to a colleague and ask them to to do it with me
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awesome you know i think the one thing about the rric is the regulated
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immigration consultancies we we want the best for our clients and we we want success at the end
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where you have somebody a ghost consultant
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what are you going to do you have no record you have no recourse is that the idea yeah well they’re
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usually outside canada i think um i looked up a number and there was only 13 registered in india but there must be
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hundreds of offices hmm i see you know there’s two i think registered
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in vietnam and there’s hundreds of offices so okay
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so do your homework if you’re if you’re looking to come to canada you’re you’re a foreign job seeker or you want to come
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in as a student do your homework do your research to make sure they’re legitimate and shop around talk to
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three or ten or however many you feel you should and make sure you find somebody that’s comfortable with you
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probably a bad sign is somebody who wants you to to not to talk to other people and just to uh just forge ahead
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with them and and do your due diligence
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exactly yeah everything is available on the cip website
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people can do it on their own well that’s one thing for people to take away as well is that the canadian
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government has tons of information there’s canada is very good at putting all kinds
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of helpful information online uh including you know sites like jobsoncanada.com and
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private sites like that as well as government sites and the provincial sites i think the provincial sites are
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really key too because i think that’s probably overlooked by a lot of foreign job seekers is okay there’s a federal program for
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coming into canada but what about the specific programs of coming into saskatchewan ontario manitoba nova
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scotia right right and and our site at riri.ca we have so much information
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on everything because i noticed that guy oh awesome that helps nothing to do
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with me he’s behind this but um you know there’s a lot of information
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but it does speak to it is a life-changing
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decision that people are making it is a lot of money no matter which way you look at it
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you know selling your assets in your house and everything another country moving over
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so it’s your comfort level do you want a professional taking care of you you know and and we take them right from
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the beginning whether it’s a student a worker a business person right through to settlement services
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helping people find the right place to live schools and all that kind of stuff
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right or so having having a guide to take you through so you’re not in the dark trying to figure out where
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the nooks and crannies and turns and and uh pathways are well i swear that things
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can change on the fly here i sometimes wonder if they wake up and say
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i you know i need to print something new today well and i think now there’s a lot
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there’s going to be a lot of changes because the whole world is changing yeah yeah
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yeah that’s so great daria thanks so much for joining us welcome thank you coach i
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really appreciate it take care ciao bye and that concludes this bernie chats for
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immigration to saskatchewan canada for entrepreneurs and workers welcome to this bernie chats with daria conahan
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president reach international recruitment and immigration services
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hello everybody welcome to bernie chats we’re recording on behalf of jobs in canada.com today and we’re joined by
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daria conahan ceo of reach international recruitment and immigration based out of
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saskatchewan canada daria thanks for joining us how are you today i’m doing great i’m in sunny saskatchewan it’s
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great here so how are things going in saskatchewan as far as the skills market the labor market how’s how’s that
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looking these days especially in light of the pandemic well we’ve got the pandemic to deal with
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but saskatchewan is booming really we just announced that cargill is putting a
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huge plant in here and also grant industries is
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putting in a 1.3 million dollar edition that’s going to add more jobs and and
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you’re quite involved in the agricultural side and the hospitality side i remember you told me
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well a little bit i mean you can’t be from saskatchewan and not be involved in agriculture right i suppose yeah yeah
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yeah for our listeners saskatchewan is uh very spread out it’s not very concentrated in the cities the cities
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are not that large they’re about what 200 000 people in a province of what about 1.1 million
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something like that something like that 1.3 we have a lot of space
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yeah so there’s a lot of a lot of nice towns whereas manitoba tends to be more centralized over half the population is
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in winnipeg for instance and there’s very few cities outside of winnipeg yeah i mean these are regina saskatoon
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prince albert right we have some great little towns and and uh helmets outside but
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uh we’re largely agriculture we have a lot of pot we’re very diverse we have a lot of
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lentils so agriculture is big here it’s a gamut of
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skills and trades here when you talk about the factory that’s being built by cargill do
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you have any idea what kind of scale that that project’s going to be and is it primarily cattle related no i don’t
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think it’s cattle related and i honestly i don’t know much about it except that everyone was doing a big happy dance and
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i think they said 1500 jobs 1500 jobs that’s a lot yeah do you think the current
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labor availability in saskatchewan can sustain that or will they have to bring in people from outside of saskatchewan
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or outside of canada i think you’re going to have to bring people in it’s very tough to get workers right now
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the jobs are there as we reopen especially in in different
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sectors i know hospitality industry is opening up again and they’re not finding
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enough workers i i would imagine that we’ll have to bring in or
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you know another route to go for someone looking to have a career here in the
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skills and trades we have absolutely fantastic education systems um sas
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polytech is the skills and trades if i were looking for my child to get into something i would see wow saskatchewan’s
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booming here’s a school get them into a trade get them in through apprenticeship
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great so is there anything about saskatchewan that makes it unique from other other provinces regarding
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occupation lists for entry or or the pnp program or anything like that
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an immigrant nominee program simp uh has several sectors there’s several
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streams and instead of having a list of jobs that they accept they have a list that
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they don’t accept because many so there’s a an occupation’s exclusion list in here
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occupation isn’t on that list you’re eligible to apply for occupations
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and demands and occupations in demand are our occupations that saskatchewan needs
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now or is going to need in the future and so you can apply for that without a
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job offer and that’s very unique so you can apply to come in without having a job lined up
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right you need to score they have a grid and so you score 60 points or higher
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right be honest it’s higher the competition would dictate that they would pick the highest numbers
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absolutely that’s a great program our clb is lower at uh clb4 that’s to do with your
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language score okay so clb is a language score yeah and and are they open to french and english
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or is it only english no open to french and english and if you have both you get more points bonus
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points for sure um so there’s occupations in demand and
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then there’s expressed entry and then of course there’s the job offer there’s farm
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there’s so many streams one thing for sure that people your listeners need to know is that we always need an education
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credential assessment done it’s fairly easy to get they don’t have to pay someone like me to get it they can go to
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wes.org and apply and it just verifies their
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education that they’re claiming so it’s a educational verification is it instant or does it have to be researched and
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then come back to them and it comes back to them so there’s a time academic it has been taking time and going through
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the pnp program you do need a french or an english language test i primarily
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work in saskatchewan right recently branched out to nova scotia as well when
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you go to nova scotia do you bring your zebras with you yeah that’s my staff and you know what they’re so good
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[Laughter] they don’t do what i tell them but they listen so they’re actually foreign
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workers yes [Laughter] they got their pr
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they got their pr that’s great um step in and say one thing about that’s very unique about
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saskatchewan uh is that if someone a foreign worker were to come and they’re in a skilled
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trade or management position they can apply for pr within after six months
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oh yeah in saskatchewan i just want to unpack that a little bit in saskatchewan if you secure a job
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work in that position for six months then you can apply for for a permanent
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residence right whereas in most provinces it’s a year or two yeah
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great that’s really good and what about for students what’s that path like in saskatchewan
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it’s it’s pretty good um we have a great university i well i graduated university of regina more times
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so once they they’ve graduated and they can get a postgraduate work permit which will allow them to work for
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an employer and then again after six months through saskatchewan experience
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they can apply great well another thing about our program is that if you apply through the oid
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through occupations in demand or express entry and you have a relative in saskatchewan you get more points
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that’s good because that’s more likely to keep you there if you have some some roots there or some family or some
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support network right exactly support network and show you around town and show you how to get
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your banking and right and and there’s less likelihood of uh getting homesick being lonely you have
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you create another family right more or less so daria what are you focused on these
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days what is your your main focus my i started in this industry because i love travel i’ve been to i think
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31 countries i like learning about different cultures and things like that and
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then this started opening up i thought wow this does everything but i also have a passion for business which which
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programs are you most uh familiar with that we can dig in a little bit is it student programs or or is there any
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quite a bit of students with with the u of r and it’s it’s fairly seamless the thing with
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the students is they have to have their eca done of course
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uh the educational credential assessments right that we discussed before their language tests they can come for
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esl let’s say you have someone who wants to
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go to school and do their certificate diploma va first of all it should be in line with
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what you’ve been doing previously you can’t suddenly say i’ve been you
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know doing something for 10 years and now i want to get into this
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really easy route right right so and if you don’t have your language
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test you can get a conditional approval so that you can write your or
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you take an esl class here but just because the school has invited you does not mean the visa officer will
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let you in okay that’s really important because i have no control school has no
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control so it should be in line with with what you’re capable of doing what your
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interests are and go from there so to unpack that a little bit um
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you can you can get a visa to study english in preparation for a course so you could say i’m i’m going
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to take dental hygiene let’s say or whatever whatever the demand is that falls in line with your previous
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occupation and before that you could study english conditionally in other words i’m
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assuming that you have to pass it in order to continue on right
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right yeah now because of colbit um the government has allowed people to study
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from their own country right i was wondering about that i was wondering if
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well there’s that and i was wondering about the working side of that too but why don’t you finish that and i’ll go to the working side well you know um
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a lot of people it’s not just that canada doesn’t want people coming in
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a lot of people are afraid to come in they may be in a country that has
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you know less cases than us right right and they want to stay home so
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they’re allowed to now uh stay home and do up to 50 percent
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or more i think you may might have even changed it of their program and still go towards post-graduate work permit
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so so you could have a study visa and do fifty percent of your studying in
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your home country and the other 50 percent on the ground in the institution or the the educational facility in
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saskatchewan right and they may have to change that um
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i haven’t done processed any under that right so every day things are changing
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so it is um it’s tough to to give that’s that’s why
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i guess my job is here because i have to say i literally read about an hour’s worth of changes every day wow to keep
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up it comes through my desk and and things and you know let’s face it during this
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crisis this pandemic most of us we’ve never experienced one before so we’re all on the fly whether
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we’re politicians or employers or whoever we’re kind of navigating our way through it the best we can
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um we’re making the rules as we play the game yeah we do want students and it is
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getting safer here we’re all being vaccinated and things are opening up
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so uh hopefully that the foreign worker that will open up more
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and now that now they’ve said that if someone is double vaccinated and they won’t have to
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do the government quarantine the hotel so that that’s huge because that was falling on
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the employers to pay that and you know when you’re going in first of
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all temporary foreign workers are a big investment for an employer right
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and they’re a big investment from both sides so if you just go well maybe i’ll wait
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this one out so i do think that the gates are going to open soon i’m hoping
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so when you say a big investment for an employer what are the aspects of that investment what what
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considerations are there for employers well employers who want to hire on their
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own it’s a lot of time you know you advertise one
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one job you and you’re gonna get 300 work you know applications going through
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all them to me see of course we have to hire a canadian permanent
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resident first and foremost and if there’s one available to do the job then you must hire a canadian but you
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screen all 300 applicants to see where they’re from
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you have to open every single one and then go and if you can’t find a canadian or permanent residence it involves
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interviewing them checking their education checking their credentials
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you know interviewing them also pay for the advertising
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if you’re doing an lmia a permit it’s a thousand dollars
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if they’re coming in and they have to be quarantined you pay for the quarantine and you pay their wages while they’re in
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quarantine oh okay so that is an investment it is a huge investment and and
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often people foreign workers um may not be able to hit the ground
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running maybe they need to a bit of adjustment into canadian culture into the way things are
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done skills and trades and so there’s there’s that so we’re really
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you know at my company we’re really about connecting the right people with the
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right employers we want them to stay we want them to be happy and
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business to boom great that’s awesome that’s great information so digging into a little bit about the
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the considerations for employers what happens with with medical when when
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a foreign job seeker comes in are they automatically on the medical system or do they have to wait three months or how
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does that work uh that’s one of the great things about saskatchewan is you have your medical
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and that’s not the same in every province no we’re at home with tommy douglas we’re all american yeah that’s right for
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people who don’t know the uh the medical system as we know it medicare was
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uh originated with one of the politicians from saskatchewan uh douglas
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um and and so does the the foreign recruiter the your yourself as a foreign recruiter do you check the references
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for these people or does the employer have to do that no we do that and we check um we make sure that they’re
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translated we make sure that we verify that they came from there that they’re translated to english
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that um you know the eca the education credential assessment is done through
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usually wes and we check the validity of their aisles and all that kind of stuff and
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also we do check their medical and their criminal background okay so you do a criminal record check you check their
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medical to make sure they don’t have ailments that they’re going to become a burden to the medical system on right
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right or an ineffective worker right right um
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do you do a credit check on them somebody asked me about that because they do credit check on their employees
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no okay i i mean that could easily be done right
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yeah that wouldn’t no i mean which depending which country i guess right and how formal they
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i we do it for the business people okay right but i’ve never had that come
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across for a worker but i don’t think it would be yeah i was surprised an hr person asked me that question
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um how how are the terms for foreign workers one year two year three year
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it depends on what what the employer wants okay and generally
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behind it is you know what if i’m hiring a foreign worker and i put in two years i really
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want to keep them right for sure you’ve made a big investment yeah the goal is to keep them and keep
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them with your company grow with your company they’ve had two years and they know it
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yeah you they’re more self-sufficient at that point and the reason you got them in the first place is because you couldn’t find anybody to start with
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right there there are some occupations um like in in agriculture that the
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temporary farm workers are seasonal right a lot of people from mexico come up to work in the fields and vineyards
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things like that and they don’t necessarily want to stay so what kind of yeah because they are
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making money to support their family back home right right it makes sense i know in british
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columbia back about 10 years ago when i read the act the agricultural worker act for british
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columbia it included uh transportation to and from uh latin america or wherever their
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country was for i think it was at least one fight back and forth
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per year so yeah under this there’s different not
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codes um right o is management is management b is skilled
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c is less c and d or lesser skill under the lesser-skilled trades
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an employer is obligated to pay the airfare okay great and so how does
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saskatchewan’s agricultural worker program work is it similar to other ones is it is it a possible track in as a
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permanent residence or how do how does it work for yeah there is
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um there is a way for under the saskatchewan experience
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for agriculture there’s an agriculture pilot project that
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actually it’s a federal stream too that will allow people to come in
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and get permanent residency okay great and you you sorry you used a name there
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that slipped my mind the the program that you mentioned uh experience saskatchewan so can you tell me a little
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bit about the saskatchewan experience program well that’s what we were talking about earlier if you’ve had six months
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experience in saskatchewan you’re eligible to apply i see that’s the program called saskatchewan experience
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wonderful so one of the things i was wondering about about getting canadian work work
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experience that maybe you can answer for me there’s a lot of people working remotely right now and a lot of companies want
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their employees to work remotely so if for instance a company here wants to hire a foreign
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worker who happens to be in let’s pick france uh and they want to hire them to work
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for their company which is based in regina and then that and you see where i’m going with this that that company that
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person works for that company for two years is that canadian work experience
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and does that count towards their qualifications for
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permanent residency go ahead funny you asked me that because i just asked that
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question yesterday um and the answer is no the answer is
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from saskatchewan or from feds from wherever in canada i asked a colleague okay
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because that’s uh um i’m hiring right now and i found some in
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a different country and i had hoped because of covid i had hoped
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that we could start um okay so so working in another country
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for a company that has their employees working remotely currently does not apply to canadian work experience it has
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to be work experience in canada uh on the ground you have to be living here
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for that time to qualify okay that’s good that’s good to know yeah now someone has a company in another
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country and wants to establish here their top management they’re skilled
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people over just to work at the company okay an inter-company transfer there’s so
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many streams what skills are more in demand in saskatchewan right now that you’re seeing come across your desk are
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you seeing more administrative more agriculture more hospitality i mean what kind of numbers uh there’s more
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hospitality okay right now and i’ve heard that across the country
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because the hospitality industry you can’t work from home
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right and i think a lot of hospitality workers who’ve been affected by kovid
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have realized this is not that secure if there’s ever another repeat of covet and currently it’s up and down
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so a lot of them are taking the opportunity to retrain maybe get it financed by serb or
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whatever program is available right and take another career path right
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and yeah and it’s tough my son’s a cook and two people on like one on each side of
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them tested positive oh really wow and there’s nothing that hits reality
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like going to see your son and dropping groceries off while he’s on the other side of a door
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right so a lot of the people don’t want to come back maybe into the industry or i don’t know
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but for whatever reason um that seems to be the big one if you have
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you know if you are in an administrative or managerial position
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you can do that remotely a lot easier right
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and and so like saskatchewan being a let me repeat that saskatchewan being a
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large agricultural producer i’m assuming there’s a fair amount of food processing companies there too or are there
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uh there are that i mean we’ve got a couple big lentils
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we’ve got the sask wheat pool that is a co-op but we don’t have a lot of huge large
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industries so you don’t have companies that are making
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mass quantities of bread or cereal boxes or or
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not that i know of okay yeah yeah i know at one time they were trying to to uh acquire those kinds of
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processors because it makes sense i mean go to the source and produce it there and then ship it out but then i guess
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they want to ship the raw materials like we tend to do in canada ship the raw materials and have it
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processed uh closer to the population well here are the big farms i mean
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really really big farms and one of the i was on a conference call and one of the issues that came up for
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agriculture is that the farmers here they want a worker who
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understands the community aspect of how we are here right we’re community
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oriented and we have to be when it’s freezing cold out you have to be a good person so someone
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will come boost your car push you over the snow bank for sure each other out to survive here they want that but they
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they also need um it’s a whole new world you may have a tractor that has three computers on it
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somebody who’s computer savvy you know the younger generation
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they’re just born with these things in their hand where so we need that that input and and know
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how to do that so there’s a disconnect i think in
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what we need and what we can get also our tractors things like that may
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not be the same as in in a foreign country
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they may be more technologically well phil and and from what i’ve seen saskatchewan and other countries the
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equipment in saskatchewan is massive huge i mean you got huge combines and
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you know they’re they’re industrial size they’re not just little tractors yeah it’s crazy
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i went out yeah you know bought rural right i’m saying wow look at that
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tractor i never thought that it’s impressive
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i guess the other thing in saskatchewan too is mining and open pit mining potash stuff like that is that still a going
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concern that we are i think we’re amongst the biggest in the world here
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say it again please sorry that’s plain uh up north we have you know cigar lake
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we have uh kojima and camaco are the two big mining companies here okay and do
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you know if they um hire foreign workers they probably do
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um okay i haven’t been really in touch with them so much now when you look at up north the oil
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fields and the mining took a big hit right it did yeah with a drop in
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commodities prices really dropped and i think people were laid off and
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but it’s picking up again you know great so what why don’t we
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sorry go ahead we’ve done remarkably well through this pandemic good really have things are happening
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here oh that’s great great so why don’t we dig into two things then
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uh i want to ask you a little bit more about students and a little bit more about
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your business uh startup program so so with the students what advice do
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you have for students or people that want to take the student path in
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in getting their permanent residency in canada so to to enter the student path
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and become canadian citizens eventually take your courses carefully get them in
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line with what what you know what you’re passionate about find a course that’s
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a good fit for you that will give you a post-graduate work permit
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two things you know we might be able to help out and i’ll give a plug at students at riri
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i have a director that will help out choosing a course and a path
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we work with any school or institution in canada but primarily with the university of regina
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and i find that works because i’m five minutes away i’ve worked there i’ve graduated from there i know it’s it’s a
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great school um but as i said previously sas polytech is a
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fantastic skills reach international will be implementing
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a direct student to work to pr
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program for select probably starting in agriculture maybe some health care and hospitality
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and that’ll be in 2022 and it’ll be a pilot project for us
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where we will assist people who come into one of the industries if
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it’s hospitality tourism it would be because that fits with our other area
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or ag something like that and they take their their course they get their
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postgraduate work permit will give them some canadian experiences some saskatchewan experience that they can go
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into sorry can you you got that the bell again can you repeat that yeah i don’t even know how to turn it off i’m sorry no worries
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but uh like i’m saying let’s say we have someone going into hospitality and
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tourism then we’ll get help them get into school get into the appropriate program
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and when they’re done we’ll give them an internship or work experience program
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for at least the six months that will qualify them for pr
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great that’s that’s super yeah i’m finding you know i’m a parent and i see all these moms
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and dads sending their children to canada for a better life and
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they go into courses like when i went to school everybody got a bachelor of psychology
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and did nothing with it and so i really want to help these people send their children here and say here
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here’s a great path to go on and maybe they won’t stay on
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that path but i’ll sure open their eyes and they’ll be exposed to different things they might be our next restaurant
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owner you know or or entrepreneur or you know start farming or do something
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i think it’s kind of my passion you know to help people out like that and that’s
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wonderful i think having that that kind of insight and experience uh to learn from and and choose a path i think is
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going to be really helpful for a lot of people it’s um it’s hard to have the kind of foresight
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and stuff when you’re a young person you haven’t really connected all the dots yet right
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yeah so that’s good so what kind of resources if somebody wants to do that take that path what kind of resources should they
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have and what kind of steps should they take to get started i mean every every path starts with one step right right
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right well first of all i mean again if they email us
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we can help them do that and and just for we have different people in charge of different areas so
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it’s students at riri.ca business at
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riris.ca you know employers at riri.ca and it helps because we get so many
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so many things um sure you can stream them to the right people right and you know if they forget that just go to our
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website ri r-i-r-i-dot-c we have so much information but if someone wants to
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you know go and help needs help on a direct path to pr um they can certainly email us and we’ll
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see how they can fit into a school and get them into that so that they can go
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on to what they need to do excellent uh you know if i can say
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if you know if you are going through a consultant uh you
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honestly you get what you deserve if you don’t go through somebody who’s licensed and i can’t stress that enough there’s
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so many what we call ghost consultants out there who aren’t licensed and i for instance i’m licensed
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in canada through iccrc they have everybody listed on their website you can check people out
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yeah so so the takeaway there is if you’re if you’re uh dealing with somebody about immigrating to canada
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and you want to check their credentials you can simply just go to the ircc iccrc
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the ic crc website yeah and and put in their information and make sure they’re
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a registered uh immigration consultant right but in saskatchewan you have to also be licensed there
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so you may be on the iccrc site right and saying oh i can get you a job or
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whatever in saskatchewan and if you’re not licensed here it’s still illegal and also in nova
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scotia and how would you ver how would you verify lawyer credentials
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for a foreign if you want to go through a lawyer i would imagine just the bar
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so you’d check the the saskatchewan bar and then the bar over each different province to make sure they’re they’re uh
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red they’re they actually have their bar and they’re registered um as lawyers in that province
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yeah yeah don’t believe on their website just because it says on a website
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doesn’t mean it’s true yeah and it’s heartbreaking how many people i get that have spent tens and thousands
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of dollars really yeah well a lot so
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on that note do you want to share roughly what you what somebody should expect to pay as a job seeker or as an
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employer for either going through a process or to come into
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canada or to um to recruit foreign job seekers what is
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there a number you can share with us that would be like an industry standard or expectation industry standard okay
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there isn’t there really isn’t um we’re all private practices
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so it’s not you know it’s um i guess the key
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takeaway from that is shop around but i may charge you 200 an hour
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and you may charge 400 an hour but you might get it done in half an hour and i’ll take six hours yup okay so so i
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think you have to weigh uh the knowledge of the person and um generally under our oath we don’t
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take cases that we’re not confident in so if i’m not sure about something i will
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go to a colleague and ask them to to do it with me
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awesome you know i think the one thing about the rric is the regulated
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immigration consultancies we we want the best for our clients and we we want success at the end
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where you have somebody a ghost consultant
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what are you going to do you have no record you have no recourse is that the idea yeah well they’re
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usually outside canada i think um i looked up a number and there was only 13 registered in india but there must be
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hundreds of offices hmm i see you know there’s two i think registered
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in vietnam and there’s hundreds of offices so okay
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so do your homework if you’re if you’re looking to come to canada you’re you’re a foreign job seeker or you want to come
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in as a student do your homework do your research to make sure they’re legitimate and shop around talk to
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three or ten or however many you feel you should and make sure you find somebody that’s comfortable with you
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probably a bad sign is somebody who wants you to to not to talk to other people and just to uh just forge ahead
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with them and and do your due diligence
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exactly yeah everything is available on the cip website
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people can do it on their own well that’s one thing for people to take away as well is that the canadian
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government has tons of information there’s canada is very good at putting all kinds
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of helpful information online uh including you know sites like jobsoncanada.com and
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private sites like that as well as government sites and the provincial sites i think the provincial sites are
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really key too because i think that’s probably overlooked by a lot of foreign job seekers is okay there’s a federal program for
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coming into canada but what about the specific programs of coming into saskatchewan ontario manitoba nova
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scotia right right and and our site at riri.ca we have so much information
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on everything because i noticed that guy oh awesome that helps nothing to do
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with me he’s behind this but um you know there’s a lot of information
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but it does speak to it is a life-changing
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decision that people are making it is a lot of money no matter which way you look at it
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you know selling your assets in your house and everything another country moving over
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so it’s your comfort level do you want a professional taking care of you you know and and we take them right from
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the beginning whether it’s a student a worker a business person right through to settlement services
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helping people find the right place to live schools and all that kind of stuff
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right or so having having a guide to take you through so you’re not in the dark trying to figure out where
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the nooks and crannies and turns and and uh pathways are well i swear that things
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can change on the fly here i sometimes wonder if they wake up and say
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i you know i need to print something new today well and i think now there’s a lot
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there’s going to be a lot of changes because the whole world is changing yeah yeah
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yeah that’s so great daria thanks so much for joining us welcome thank you coach i
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really appreciate it take care ciao bye and that concludes this bernie chats for
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