Dec 8, 2011 / 9:47 am
The B.C. government is setting up a task force aimed at boosting the number of skilled immigrants and investors coming to the province.
Premier Christy Clark says skilled immigrants will be needed to help fill more than one million job openings expected in B.C. over the next decade.
She says the task force headed by Richmond Liberal MLA John Yap will review the effectiveness of all of B.C.'s current immigration programs and make recommendations on how to improve them.
Yap says skilled people all over the world want to come to B.C. and the aim of the task force is to make it easier for them to emigrate.
The nine-member task force will begin its work immediately and submit a final report by the end of next March.
Other members of the panel include former federal cabinet minister Stockwell Day, Asia Pacific Foundation CEO Yuen Pau Woo, immigration lawyer Narindarpal Singh Kang, and assistant UBC Dean Grace Wong.
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