Potential immigrants with the skills and ability to innovate and add to the growth of the economy will be the targets of a new immigration plan being set up by the government, according to Citizenship and Immigration minister Jason Kenney.
The plan to hasten the immigration process for “high value innovators” will replace the immigrant entrepreneur program which the government stopped last year, according to a report from the Globe and Mail.
“We want the next Bill Gates or the next Steve Jobs. We want those folks with the brilliant ideas that are going to generate sustainable jobs for a long time to come,” Kenney said in an interview with the newspaper.
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