Who are digital nomads and is Canada ready to welcome them?
Global News
Last month, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced that Canada was launching a special visa for digital nomads to come and live in Canada.
Anna Ambroszkiewicz has a Polish passport, but says the whole world is her home. She has structured her life in a way that allows her to live in different places in the world for short periods of time — in short, she’s a “digital nomad.”
“I can go hiking in the daytime and go work in the afternoon or the evening,” said Ambroszkiewicz, a travel blogger currently based in a small town called Bansko in the mountains of Bulgaria.
When Ambroszkiewicz heard that the Canadian government was going to launch a visa specifically for digital nomads, it piqued her curiosity — she says she’s heard of Canada’s abundant natural beauty from other digital nomads.
“I would really like to visit Canada. I would love to go snowboarding in Canada.”
But a few things are holding her back from packing for the Great White North: “I guess you can’t do much about the prices in Canada.”
A digital nomad is a person who makes a living working largely online from a remote location of their choosing, without laying down roots in any fixed location. Digital nomads typically don’t stay in one location longer than a few months or a year.
Two weeks ago, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser introduced a buffet of measures to attract the best talent in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). As part of the wider strategy, Fraser said the federal government would be rolling out a special visa for digital nomads.
“(The digital nomad strategy) is going to allow people who have a foreign employer to come and work in Canada for up to six months, live in communities in this country and spend money in communities in this country. And should they receive a job offer while they’re here, we’re going to allow them to continue to stay and work in Canada,” he said.
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