Immigration.ca - Canada Immigration News - September 2009
The Ontario city of Guelph will receive just under half a million dollars towards a new �Local Immigration Partnership Initiative�, the government announced this month.
The funding, approximately $459,000 will go toward building a council that will oversee development and operations of local resettlement service programs. The council members will include municipal politicians, as well as other key community figures.
Guelph has been a destination for almost 7,000 immigrants in the past ten years. The funding to the city is part of a larger financial partnership between the federal government and the provincial government of Ontario toward immigrant services.
�We are very pleased that, with the support of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, we will be able to develop an integrated, coordinated strategy to make Guelph and Wellington a more welcoming place for newcomers to Canada and our community,� said Karen Farbridge, the Mayor of Guelph upon the announcement.
Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada
