Ontario’s Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development, David Piccini, has ramped up demands for greater provincial autonomy over immigration, even as the federal government moves ahead with regulatory changes that appear to grant provinces exactly that.
In a recent post on X (formerly Twitter), Piccini declared that “Ontario will not sign a renewed Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement until we have credible departure information from the Feds.”
The statement is the latest in a series of calls from the minister for “more autonomy” on immigration decisions, but so far, Piccini has offered few specifics on what that means in practice beyond greater access to federal data.