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The new measures, announced today, will allow 20,000 temporary foreign workers in health care, 30,000 workers in other occupations deemed essential and 40,000 international students who have graduated from a university or college to apply to become permanent residents.Under the new rules, any foreign resident who graduated from a Canadian university or college within the past four years may apply.
Internal documents obtained through freedom of information legislation paint a picture of substantial disruption at the agency. One slide of an internal presentation states that employees had “no access” to the tools needed to implement updates to the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act by the June 1, 2021, deadline.
A number of legislative changes were made to the act in mid-2019 to bring Canada’s anti-money laundering regime in line with international standards. Key among them were rules relating to cryptocurrency exchanges that facilitate transactions for Canadians.
. But in an apparent signal to Israel, which Tehran blamed for an explosion at its key nuclear site on Sunday, Germany, France and Britain added that they rejected “all escalatory measures by any actor.”