The rules no longer treat all employers alike. Wage thresholds, sector carve-outs and refusal-to-process lists mean a restaurant, a construction firm and a care home are now playing three different games — and the cheapest mistake is the one you catch before paying for recruitment ads. That is the entire point of the readiness audit.
Eight questions, three minutes — find the problems in your file before ESDC does, free.
Recruitment compliance, filing, the work permit that follows, and the exemptions that make some LMIAs unnecessary.
Why low-wage applications are not being processed in Toronto, and the routes that still work.
The sector's carve-outs from the low-wage restrictions, and the subcontractor trap.
PSW and nurse hiring, licensing-first planning, and the pilots that skip the LMIA.
Wage streams, the incorporated-driver problem, and the retention play that keeps drivers.
Our own analysis of the federal LMIA data — what actually got approved, by sector and municipality.
Multi-position recruitment contracts, structured once and reused per hire.
Fifteen minutes sorts most of this out
Free, no obligation — in English, Mandarin, Cantonese or French. We tell you which pathways are realistically open, which are closed, and whether you need us at all.