Canada Immigration

On September 30 this year, Pierre Poilievre, Member of Parliament for Nepean-Carleton announced that the Canada government is going to provide $757,000 over two years to the Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre.This program addresses the opportunities and challenges of a diverse workplace.

MP Poilievre said that
“Employers and new Canadians in Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver will benefit greatly from the Multiculturalism Achievement Program for Learning Employers, By supporting initiatives such as this, the Government of Canada is investing in the future—a future that depends on all of us growing together through our shared values, history and institutions.”

The MAPLE (Multiculturalism Achievement Program for Learning Employers) has three main activities.These are:

• Workshops for employers on improving cross-cultural communication in the workplace.
• Unpaid internships for new Canadians with participating employers.
• ‘Mentor-to-Mentor’ exchanges, with representatives of new Canadians and participating employers mentoring each other on issues of intercultural understanding.

The Executive Director of the OCCSC Sharon Kan said that

“MAPLE is about opportunity – the opportunity for employers to learn how to create conditions to make a diverse

workplace thrive, as well as the opportunity for newcomers to develop networks of contacts and colleagues and

establish themselves in their chosen fields in Canada.We are pleased that the Government of Canada has chosen to

support this endeavour.”

The other partners in this workplace diversity project include the Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia and Immigrant Services Calgary.