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Windsor is one of 10 spots in Canada in a pilot project to help visible minority women find jobs.

London West MP Kate Young announced $310,000 in extra funding Tuesday for Women’s Enterprise Skills Training of Windsor Inc. (WEST) which is also the only spot in Ontario outside Toronto that is part of the pilot project for newcomers.

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“It is such an honour as I mentioned, only one of 10 in all of Canada to be selected for this opportunity,” WEST’s executive director Rose Anguiano Hurst said Tuesday.

Young, who started an earlier journalism career at a Windsor radio station, was in Windsor on behalf of Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen to announce the funding that is part of up to $5 million for 10 service providers for the next three years.

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With an aging population and lower birth rate, Canada needs immigrants, she said.

“Immigrants in general have a lot to offer us,” Young said after the announcement. “Some people worry that immigrants are taking Canadians’ jobs. That is not the fact. The fact of the matter is they’re creating jobs.”