Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship is visiting Windsor-Essex.
Minister Ahmed Hussen arrived in the city on Wednesday and made a couple of stops, including a roundtable discussion with members of the Windsor-Essex regional Chamber of Commerce.
A number of topics were discussed including the Global Skills Strategy.
The minister believes Canada is attracting some of the most highly skilled workers in the world and immigration is working for the region.
"I spoke about how as a government we've responded to the call of employers to increase immigration levels especially in the economic category to meet the needs of businesses who are growing, who need workers for unfilled jobs but also skilled immigrants for skill shortages," says Minister Hussen.
"To educate folks on some of the programming that is not being used as much as it should that is meant to facilitate the access to talent, to skills, how more we can use immigration to work for communities to grow the local economy," adds Hussen.
He tells CTV Windsor the federal Governmentgstill has to educate different groups on the programs Canada offers.
"I also heard loudly and clearly some of the challenges facing companies here as they navigate the border when it comes to sharing researchers and technicians between different aspects of the company from Ontario and Michigan," says Hussen.
The minister also noted Canada has attracted 15,000 highly skilled people from around the world since June 2017. 25 percent are Americans.
Hussen also visited the University of Windsor on Wednesday and will head to St. Clair College on Thursday.
The minister will also host a citizenship ceremony in Windsor on Thursday.