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As part of the initiative, approximately $7 million has been committed to support eight international projects in Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The investment aims to enhance migration management and increase legal mobility, digital innovation and stronger international partnerships.
The new agenda is part of a broader effort to harness technology, coordinated policy-making and collaboration among governments, international organisations and local communities to address migration challenges.
International Investment Helps Strengthen Migration Systems
The recently announced funding package illustrates Canada’s continued focus on international cooperation as a key element of migration management. The projects to be supported are aimed at strengthening institutional capacities, strengthening migration governance and promoting safer migration routes in different regions.
Funding for international efforts reflects a growing demand for international collaboration on migration issues, rather than purely national solutions. Strengthening migration systems in countries of origin and transit can help to make international movement more orderly, while reducing pressures for irregular migration.
The selected projects are expected to strengthen administrative capacity, improve policy coordination and support practical solutions adapted to regional migration challenges.
Canada supports international efforts to help build a more resilient and cooperative global framework on migration.
Policy Focus On Ethical Artificial Intelligence
The responsible use of artificial intelligence in the management of immigration and migration is one of the key components of the new migration agenda. Governments increasingly resort to digital technologies to process applications, analyse information and improve administrative efficiency.
Canada’s initiative emphasises the need to use artificial intelligence ethically, transparently and responsibly, while safeguarding individual rights and ensuring fairness in decision-making processes.
Ethical artificial intelligence can improve the consistency, identify administrative inefficiencies and improve overall service delivery, while also shortening processing times. The focus on responsible digital innovation is in line with broader international discussions on the future role of artificial intelligence in public administration.
Mobility Of Labour Is Key To Future Migration Policy
The initiative actively supports the enhanced legal labour mobility of skilled workers. In many countries, labour shortages persist in key sectors, and the demand for efficient and well-regulated migration pathways is growing.
Combating Misinformation For Migration Integrity
Another major aim of the initiative is to counter misinformation around migration. False information through social media, unofficial websites and fraudulent recruitment networks has increasingly shaped migration decisions globally.
Misinformation about migration procedures, job opportunities, visa requirements, and border access often places migrants in situations of financial fraud, exploitation, and unsafe transportation.
The approach makes an effort to improve access to reliable information and to raise public awareness of legitimate immigration processes. Improving communication can help reduce the vulnerability to scams and enable prospective migrants to make better-informed decisions.
The fight against misinformation also helps build more confidence in official immigration systems and strengthens the integrity of legal migration pathways.
Successful Migration Outcomes Are Built On Community Partnerships
The new agenda also promotes a “whole-of-society” approach involving governments, community organisations, educational institutions, employers and civil society groups. Successful migration is not only about border management, but also about effective integration in receiving communities. Local organisations are key to providing services such as language training, employment, settlement and community engagement to newcomers.
Digital Modernisation Will Define Future Immigration Systems
Technology keeps on changing the way immigration is administered in many countries. Canada’s new migration agenda has a strong emphasis on digital processing systems that can enhance efficiency while maintaining security and transparency.
Modern digital platforms can streamline application processes, reduce administrative delays, enhance document handling and provide applicants with better access to information about immigration processes.
Digital modernisation also opens the door to more international cooperation, enabling governments to more effectively share information and enhance cross-border policy coordination.
Skills-Based Migration Remains A Growing Global Trend
The shifting migration agenda is part of a wider movement in the international arena toward skills-based immigration systems. Increasingly, many countries are placing more weight on applications from persons with skills matching identified needs in the labour market and long-term economic development strategies.
Canada has a long history of encouraging economic immigration as a key part of workforce development, innovation and national economic growth. This is further strengthened by the new agenda promoting legal migration routes that are linked to employment opportunities and workforce planning. These approaches also clarify immigration priorities for potential applicants.
Skills-based selection regimes are expected to continue to be a defining feature of international migration policy as the pressures of the labour market continue to change.
International Cooperation Continues To Shape The Future Of Migration
Canada’s intervention at the 2026 United Nations International Migration Review Forum signals an increasing global commitment to modernising migration governance through cooperation, technology and evidence-based policymaking. This approximately $7 million investment supports projects across Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and demonstrates recognition that migration challenges increasingly need coordinated global responses. The new agenda aims to strengthen domestic and international migration systems through a focus on ethical artificial intelligence, labour mobility, digital innovation, community collaborations, and initiatives to counter misinformation. These initiatives aim to improve administrative efficiency and to offer safer and more legal ways for people to find jobs and new opportunities abroad.
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