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.

23,379Approved positions

Not providedLMIAs (source-row sum)

6,616Distinct employer names

7,476Matching records

Rankings & distribution

Name	Positions	LMIA
Ontario Plants Propagation Limited	4451.9%	Not provided
Amazon Canada Fulfillment Services, ULC	2491.1%	Not provided
Devry Greenhouse (1989) Ltd.	2291.0%	Not provided
Schuyler Farms Limited	1910.8%	Not provided
Plantations Nicholas Inc.	1870.8%	Not provided
Champs Fresh Farms Inc	1610.7%	Not provided
Pioneer Flower Farms Limited	1560.7%	Not provided
Great Lakes Greenhouses Inc.	1510.6%	Not provided
Flower Group Operating Inc.	1500.6%	Not provided
JBS Food Canada ULC	1500.6%	Not provided
Highline Produce Limited	1350.6%	Not provided
Botden Orchards Ltd.	1320.6%	Not provided
Verger Jodoin et frères inc.	1310.6%	Not provided
Plantations Lavertu Inc.	1250.5%	Not provided
Brookdale Treeland Nurseries Ltd.	1210.5%	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	Nova Scotia	Manitoba	New Brunswick	Employers carrying on business in Canada with Head Office outside of Canada	Saskatchewan	Prince Edward Island	Newfoundland and Labrador	Nunavut	Northwest Territories	Yukon
8432 · Nursery and greenhouse workers
8431 · General farm workers
6322 · Cooks
7511 · Transport truck drivers
6311 · Food service supervisors
8611 · Harvesting labourers
2173 · Software engineers and designers
7271 · Carpenters
9617 · Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing
7237 · Welders and related machine operators
8252 · Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers
1241 · Administrative assistants

Published approval records

25 records per page, sorted by selected metric. Click an employer for its full-snapshot profile.

Quarter	Location / address	NOC / Occupation	Stream	Positions	LMIA
2020-Q3	OntarioSt. Thomas, ON N5P 3T2	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	445	Not provided
2020-Q3	British ColumbiaChilliwack, BC V2P 6H4	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	229	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioToronto, ON M5J 0A1	2173 · NOC 2011Software engineers and designers	High Wage	227	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioSimcoe, ON N3Y 4K3	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	191	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecSAINTE-CLOTILDE-DE-BEAUCE, QC G0N 1C0	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	187	Not provided
2020-Q3	British ColumbiaAldergrove, BC V4W 2Z6	8611 · NOC 2011Harvesting labourers	Primary Agriculture	161	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioSt. Catharines, ON L2R 6P9	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	156	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioLeamington, ON N8H 4C9	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	150	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioLeamington, ON N8H 3V6	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	150	Not provided
2020-Q3	AlbertaBrooks, AB T1R 1C6	9462 · NOC 2011Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and related workers	Low Wage	150	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioLeamington, ON N8H 3V5	8611 · NOC 2011Harvesting labourers	Primary Agriculture	135	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioThornbury, ON N0H 2P0	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	132	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecSAINT-JEAN-BAPTISTE, QC J0L 2B0	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	131	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecSherbrooke, QC J1N 3G7	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	125	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioSchomberg, ON L0G 1T0	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	121	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecSt-Hyacinthe, QC J2S 4B6	9617 · NOC 2011Labourers in food, beverage and associated products processing	Low Wage	120	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioKingsville, ON N9Y 2E4	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	117	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecLAVALTRIE, QC J5T 4A9	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	116	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioStaples, ON N0P 2J0	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	112	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecSherbrooke, QC J1N 3G7	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	109	Not provided
2020-Q3	British ColumbiaRosedale, BC V0X 1X2	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	102	Not provided
2020-Q3	British ColumbiaCHILLIWACK, BC V2R 4L6	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	97	Not provided
2020-Q3	British ColumbiaVancouver, BC V5T 4T5	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	95	Not provided
2020-Q3	OntarioLeamington, ON N8H 3V8	8432 · NOC 2011Nursery and greenhouse workers	Primary Agriculture	91	Not provided
2020-Q3	QuebecLa Présentation, QC J0H 1B0	8431 · NOC 2011General farm workers	Primary Agriculture	89	Not provided

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Source & definitions

tfwp_2020q3_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.