New Categories for Skilled Workers in Canada

We're also adding categories for candidates with work experience in

transport occupations, including pilots,

aircraft mechanics, and inspectors.

We've identified these sectors as areas in critical need.

Strengthen-- Strengthening those helps us move goods

across the country

and to new markets, supporting trade, supply chains, and

economic resilience.

And finally, we are creating a new category for skilled

military recruits to attract highly skilled

foreign military applicants.

Eligible recruits with a job offer from the Canadian Armed Forces,

including doctors, nurses, pilots,

can be invited to apply for permanent residence.

They will be subject to the same security and all

military requirements.

This new category will support our government's

commitment to strengthen our armed forces,

to defend our sovereignty,

and to keep Canadians safe.

This category and other priority categories

supports Canada's defense industrial strategy, which Prime Minister

Carney announced yesterday.