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What is the Timmins Local Immigration Partnership?

Timmins plays an important economic role in northern Ontario through its uniqueness in diversity and rich natural resources. However, the Population trends in many of Ontario’s northern regions suggest a high core working age emigration level. And because of this, there’s a potential for labour shortages. Timmins could benefit from attracting a new generation of entrepreneurs to replace those who retire and help drive growth in important industries such as trade, transportation, and tourism. Critical to sustaining this economic growth is a strategic move to ensure that there is a talent pipeline large and strong enough to meet local industry demands and provide a source of new entrepreneurs

The Timmins Local Immigration Partnership is designed to create welcoming community initiatives to welcome, attract, and retain immigrants.

TLIP aims to create a community that has a strong desire to welcome newcomers and where everyone works to create an environment within which newcomers feel at home

The TLIP was formally established in March 2009 through funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (now Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada). As one of the 80 LIPs across Ontario, it is designed to provide a collaborative framework to facilitate the development and implementation of sustainable solutions for the successful integration of newcomers to Ontario
The TLIP’s original purpose was to create economic vitality in Timmins by attracting, retaining, and integrating newcomers to the area.  It was thus embedded in the Timmins Economic Development Corporation (TEDC).

In April of 2011, as the number of partners increased, its initiative expanded to address key areas of newcomer needs and was thus transferred to the Northeastern Ontario Multicultural Center, formerly known as Timmins and District Multicultural Center (TDMC).

TLIP grew from a small group of partners in 2009 to a collaboration with 30+ community partners.

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Our Mission

Working collaboratively with community partners and employers to create and implement innovative strategies to attract, retain, and integrate newcomers to Timmins and the area.

Our Vision

To create an inclusive and welcoming community where newcomers feel valued and can contribute their skills and talents for the economic development of the community, which will not only foster mutual benefits but also enrich the cultural diversity and social fabric of the community.

Timmins LIP Operating Values

  • We commit to being inclusive in process and action, and in engaging local stakeholders with an intentional emphasis on the participation of newcomers
  • We will be responsive to newcomers’ experiences of belonging, as well as the community’s changing needs
  • We encourage and support new ideas and innovation to enhance the newcomer experience
  • We recognize the inherent value of newcomers
  • We are intentional in recognizing and addressing systemic barriers impacting newcomers

Structure and Governance

TLIP is driven by partnership councils of stakeholder entities interested in improving newcomer outcomes, who guides its responsibilities related to needs assessments, asset mapping, resource and information sharing, identifying gaps, and ensuring the development of a locally based newcomer strategy and targeted work or action plan through open dialogue and community-based research, and regularly reviews the TLIP’s progress on implementation

Executive Committee

  • Provides strategic direction to TLIP activities
  • Develops TLIP work plans based on input from
  • Reviews regular progress

Advisory Council

  • Drive governance, vision, and strategy
  • Provide recommendations and advice
  • Provides strategic planning and consultations

Working Group

  • Collaboration of local experts for TLIP’s initiative
  • Serves as the implementation body of TLIP
  • Performs specific tasks to support TLIP’s initiatives

Our Strategic Priorities

Expand membership by incorporating new partners from relevant sectors, which is key to facilitating the successful integration of newcomers by filling gaps and supporting opportunities

Creating welcoming communities by building a community where immigrants have a sense of belonging and connectedness, through creating opportunities for interaction and implementing a comprehensive public awareness campaign that will address misinformation about immigration on social and traditional media

Language support—Build support for ESL and FSL development opportunities in Timmins and the area, engaging partners to enhance access to quick language assessment

As we gather virtually, we acknowledge that those of us in Timmins are situated in Treaty 9 territory, steeped in rich Indigenous history and home to many First Nations, Metis and Inuit People today. We also acknowledge Mattagami First Nation, on whose traditional land we are meeting. We make this acknowledgement as a first step in fulfilling our responsibility to critically look at colonial histories and their impact on the present day.