Alberta immigration system not tangled in delays: Minister

EDMONTON – Alberta Labour Minister Christina Gray says Opposition Leader Jason Kenney is wrong in suggesting that the province’s immigrant nominee program is tangled in delays.

Gray says processing times are quite speedy compared with what the NDP government inherited from the Progressive Conservatives in 2015.

She says people potentially waiting as long as two years are often seeing their applications processed within two months.

Kenney says a government run by his United Conservative Party would develop an immigration strategy to attract more entrepreneurs who meet business and financial requirements to come and work in rural areas. He says the goal would be to model successful recruitment programs in provinces such as British Columbia and Manitoba.