Provincial Nomination Program

The provincial numbers are even more targeted.

This is the BC PNP entrepreneur draw on October 20th.

Yes, they invited up to 15 candidates in total.

Wait, just 15?

On October 26, we had express entry draw 451.

Right.

The PNP draw.

Yeah, 792 invitations issued to provincial nominee candidates.

Here is a news brief.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada invites 792 in PNP Round 451, minimum score 761 on OCT 26, 2026.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada invited 792 under the Provincial Nominee Program on OCT 26, 2026.

Round 451 had a minimum score of 761.

And the Pr- Prime Minister, uh, and several of his ministers in the, in the subsequent days have actually said, "We're open to having those conversations.

If they want more immigrants, if they want different types of immigrants, we can work with them on adjusting things like the Provincial Nominee Program." But they said there's no reason to reopen the Constitution to do that.

I think where she risks getting out over her skis, but where a big part of her base is gonna try to push her, is on treating immigrants differently in society.

So I think she's got less support for, uh, aggressive moves to cut off access, uh, for, uh, y- temporary foreign workers, asylum seekers, international students, and their children to schools, hospitals, and s- and so on.

Here is a news brief.

733 invited under the Provincial Nominee Program.

Minimum score 725, round 445.

On September 28, 2026...

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada invited 733 under the provincial nominee program.

Minimum score 725, round 445.

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So the solution to me is to have your point system working the way it has historically with one or maybe a few categories and then to have categories at the provincial level separate.

from the point system or maybe our provincial nominee program can draw from the point system by nominating people through the provincial nominee program who have been scored in the express entry program.

But not having those categories within our system and kind of chunking things up.

I hope that it's complicated.

The federal government has no control over where in the country people end up.

And so it makes a lot more sense for the federal government to focus on admitting people through the point system who are going to be resilient and mobile, and they're going to be high earning, and they're going to help raise average wages and prosperity.

At the same time, separately, we can do the work of admitting people to fill regional talent shortages through programs like the Provincial Nominee Program and ensuring that the provinces are working with regulatory bodies, with training providers, to make sure that people who come through those programs are positioned to enter the careers that they were selected for quickly and in the regions where we're hoping they'll go and stay.

And so in that way, the province now also has the responsibility of making sure that when people come to your province to live, you make it a great place for them to live in so that they can stay.