ESDC · 2015—2026-Q1 · NOC 2011 / 2021

LMIA employers & approved positions

Explore employers with positive LMIAs and compare occupations, provinces and program streams.

Historical full years 2015–2025 and Q1 2026 records, not current vacancies. Approved positions are not permits or arrivals. Only Q1 is available for 2026; do not compare it directly with full-year 2025.

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Quarter	Records	LMIA	Positions (source scope)	Count basis
2015	13,112	Not provided	82,683	Approved
2016	15,979	Not provided	77,346	Approved
2017-H1	10,863	Not provided	47,492	Approved
2017-Q3	4,538	Not provided	12,731	Approved
2017-Q4	4,752	Not provided	27,337	Approved
2018-Q1	4,401	Not provided	26,302	Approved
2018-Q2	4,629	Not provided	18,891	Approved
2018-Q3	4,761	Not provided	16,648	Approved
2018-Q4	5,763	Not provided	31,575	Approved
2019-Q1	7,317	Not provided	32,288	Approved
2019-Q2	6,967	Not provided	20,844	Approved
2019-Q3	7,329	Not provided	23,718	Approved
2019-Q4	9,228	Not provided	36,362	Approved
2020-Q1	8,814	Not provided	33,607	Approved
2020-Q2	3,472	Not provided	14,595	Approved
2020-Q3	7,476	Not provided	23,379	Approved
2020-Q4	8,375	Not provided	35,128	Approved
2021-Q1	8,685	Not provided	34,132	Approved
2021-Q2	8,168	Not provided	21,813	Approved
2021-Q3	4,655	Not provided	13,193	Approved
2021-Q4	7,028	10,004	40,959	Approved
2022-Q1	10,512	13,772	44,167	Approved
2022-Q2	15,167	19,214	45,198	Requested
2022-Q3	14,079	17,549	39,956	Approved
2022-Q4	17,002	21,979	66,687	Approved
2023-Q1	17,109	21,124	59,749	Approved
2023-Q2	16,170	19,295	41,900	Approved
2023-Q3	18,558	22,205	47,284	Approved
2023-Q4	22,026	25,782	78,742	Approved
2024-Q1	25,579	29,517	68,148	Approved
2024-Q2	23,351	27,633	52,948	Approved
2024-Q3	20,590	24,173	49,121	Approved
2024-Q4	17,745	21,812	58,653	Approved
2025-Q1	17,952	21,708	51,328	Approved
2025-Q2	15,273	18,516	36,010	Approved
2025-Q3	11,278	13,516	29,818	Approved
2025-Q4	9,737	12,230	47,487	Approved
2026-Q1	8,790	10,832	33,216	Approved

2016–2023 and 2024 Q1 use NOC 2011; other quarters use NOC 2021. Cross-version occupations are not directly comparable. Search, rankings, profiles, comparison and exports below use the selected period. Employer names are deduplicated by exact published name across quarters; positions and LMIAs sum source records.

The 2022 Q2 title describes positive LMIAs, but numeric headers say Requested LMIAs / Requested Positions. Counts retain that source meaning and are not assumed to be approvals. Full-year 2022 and all-quarter sums mix count bases and are not pure approval totals.

2017 H1 remains a combined half-year; together with Q3 and Q4 it covers the full year. 2020 is complete. Sources from 2015 through 2021 Q3 omit LMIA counts and incorporation status. Missing fields are shown as not provided; incomplete LMIA sums are not displayed for mixed periods.

2015 omits occupation and program; 2016 omits program. Missing classifications are not inferred. 2017 H1 combines Q1 and Q2 without separate quarter counts.

Employer, occupation or NOCProvince / territoryProgram streamCity, address or postal code

Common Chinese search aliases are supported; published names remain in English.

16,648Approved positions

Not providedLMIAs (source-row sum)

4,217Distinct employer names

4,761Matching records

Rankings & distribution

Name	Positions	LMIA
	2,47214.8%	Not provided
Great Northern Hydroponics	1721.0%	Not provided
Brookdale Treeland Nurseries Ltd	1570.9%	Not provided
Ontario Plants Propagation Limited	1360.8%	Not provided
1329606 Ontario Ltd	1250.8%	Not provided
Verger Thomson Inc.	1230.7%	Not provided
Champ's Fresh Farms Inc.	1150.7%	Not provided
Verger Jodoin & frères inc	1070.6%	Not provided
Agriville Farms Ltd	1040.6%	Not provided
Algoma Orchards Ltd.	900.5%	Not provided
Rainbow Greenhouses Alberta Inc	880.5%	Not provided
Mucci Farms	870.5%	Not provided
Verger Caron Inc.	860.5%	Not provided
Whistler Blackcomb Employment Corp.	860.5%	Not provided
Olymel S.E.C./L.P.	790.5%	Not provided

Top 15; shares use positions in current filters.

Employer / province comparison

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Name	Positions	LMIA	NOCs	Streams

Occupation × province positions

Top 12 occupations under current filters. Hover for values; click a cell to filter occupation and location.

NOC / Occupation	Ontario	British Columbia	Quebec	Alberta	Employers carrying on business in Canada with Head Office outside of Canada	Nova Scotia	New Brunswick	Prince Edward Island	Saskatchewan	Manitoba	Newfoundland and Labrador	Northwest Territories	Yukon
8431 · General farm workers
8432 · Nursery and greenhouse workers
6322 · Cooks
6311 · Food service supervisors
7511 · Transport truck drivers
8611 · Harvesting labourers
2174 · Computer programmers and interactive media developers
2173 · Software engineers and designers
5241 · Graphic designers and illustrators
8252 · Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers
7271 · Carpenters
7237 · Welders and related machine operators

Published approval records

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Quarter	Location / address	NOC / Occupation	Stream	Positions	LMIA
2018-Q3	OntarioKingsville, ON N9Y 2E9	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	172	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioSchomberg, ON L0G 1T0	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	157	Not provided
2018-Q3	British Columbia	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	139	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioSt. Thomas, ON N5P 3T2	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	136	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioLeamington, ON N8H 3V5	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	125	Not provided
2018-Q3	QuebecSaint-Paul d'Abbotsford, QC J0E 1A0	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	123	Not provided
2018-Q3	Ontario	8611 · NOC 2011Harvesting labourers	Primary Agriculture	122	Not provided
2018-Q3	British Columbia	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	116	Not provided
2018-Q3	British ColumbiaAldergrove, BC V4W 2Z6	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	114	Not provided
2018-Q3	QuebecSt-Jean-Baptiste, QC J0L 2B0	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	107	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioKingsville, ON N9Y 2N1	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	104	Not provided
2018-Q3	British Columbia	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	98	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioNEWCASTLE, ON L1B 0T9	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	90	Not provided
2018-Q3	British ColumbiaCHILLIWACK, BC V2R 4L6	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	88	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioKingsville, ON N9Y 2N1	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	87	Not provided
2018-Q3	QuebecFrelighsburg, QC J0J 1C0	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	86	Not provided
2018-Q3	British ColumbiaWhistler, BC V0N 1B4	5254 · NOC 2011Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness	High Wage	86	Not provided
2018-Q3	British Columbia	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	85	Not provided
2018-Q3	QuebecST-HYACINTHE, QC J2S 4B6	9617 · NOC 2011Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing	Low Wage	79	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioWaterloo, ON N2J 4G8	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	79	Not provided
2018-Q3	British ColumbiaCHILLIWACK, BC V2R 4L6	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	73	Not provided
2018-Q3	Prince Edward IslandAlberton, PE C0B 1B0	9463 · NOC 2011Fish and seafood plant workers	Low Wage	70	Not provided
2018-Q3	QuebecSte-Clotilde, QC G0N 1C0	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	67	Not provided
2018-Q3	OntarioSimcoe, ON N3Y 4K1	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	67	Not provided
2018-Q3	British Columbia	2173 · NOC 2011Software engineers and designers	High Wage	66	Not provided

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Source & definitions

2018q3_positive_en.csv · Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) LMIA system; employers with positive LMIAs.

Personal names and business names containing personal names can be excluded; this is not a complete national total. Manually entered employer names may have spelling variants. Names are not automatically merged or verified as distinct legal entities. LMIA counts sum published rows, without unique LMIA identifiers for deduplication.

2016–2023 and 2024 Q1 use NOC 2011 (four-digit codes); other quarters use NOC 2021 (five-digit codes). Original codes are not converted or merged. Missing occupation codes remain included in totals. Addresses are preserved; overseas-head-office employers remain a separate category. Incorporate Status is the published registration field, not proof of current operations, genuine recruitment or creditworthiness. Data may be revised.