Citizenship and Immigration

Also filed as Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade (2014), Citizenship & Immigration (2003–2005, 2007–2013) and Citizenship (2001–2002).

Ontario Sunshine List 2018 · 77 employees earning $100K+

Government of Ontario – Ministries
Data ends in 2018. Citizenship and Immigration has no records in the 2025 Sunshine List — it may have been renamed, merged into another organization, or no longer report under this name. Search for its current listing.

At a Glance
2018

Employee Count

77

2018 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$9.6M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$124,250

2018 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$110,868

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Citizenship and Immigration in 2018?

Alexander Bezzina, Deputy Minister, was paid $303,944 in 2018 — the highest total compensation among 77 Citizenship and Immigration employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $110,868.

How has Citizenship and Immigration's Sunshine List changed?

Citizenship and Immigration listed 11 people in 2001 and 77 in 2018 — 7.0× as many; payroll on the list went from $1.5M to $9.6M, and the median salary moved from $115,364 to $110,868. It has not appeared under this name since 2018.

How many Citizenship and Immigration employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 17 yearly values of median salary, from $115,364 in 2001 to $110,868 in 2018. No data for 2015.$100K$105K$110K$115K$120K$125K200120052008201120142018
Median salary, 2001–2018. Axis starts at $100,000, the Sunshine List disclosure threshold. That threshold has never been indexed to inflation, so this line can fall over time simply because more people newly cross it — not necessarily because pay fell.

Top Employees
2018

#1Alexander Bezzina
$303,944
Deputy Minister
#2Maureen Buckley
$192,579
Chief Administrative Officer/Assistant Deputy Minister, Regional and Corporate Services Division
#3Michael Reid
$192,579
Assistant Deputy Minister, Immigration Selection Division
#4Virginia Hatchette
$192,579
Assistant Deputy Minister, Refugee Resettlement Secretariat
#5Cindy Lam
$192,579
Assistant Deputy Minister, Citizenship and Immigration Division
#6Doris Dumais
$165,127
Project Operations Director
#7Deborah Swain
$165,127
Director, Communications
#8Alice Young
$165,127
Director, Strategic Policy, Research and Analytics
#9Neil Coburn
$165,127
Director, Regional Services and Corporate Support
#10Deborah Strauss
$162,178
Director, Client Services and Liaison
#11Liborio Campisi
$152,903
Director, Human Resources/Strategic Business Branch
#12Ken Nakahara
$152,903
Director, Program Management and Business Services
#13Yvonne Amanda Ferrer
$150,171
Director, Program Management and Evaluation
#14Douglas Dixon
$147,031
Director, Program Management and Evaluation
#15Joanne Lorenzi
$141,569
Director, Corporate Policy and Planning
#16Suzanne Hastie
$141,124
Director, Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program Delivery Branch
#17Ferdinando Longo
$136,201
Chief of Staff
#18Mary Dowding-Pare
$131,138
Assistant Director and Manager, Strategic Communications Planning
#19Christopher Stack
$130,143
Manager, West Region
#20Joanne Benard
$129,219
Manager, Strategic Labour Relations
#21Larissa Hretchka
$127,495
Manager, Strategic Policy and Planning
#22Valerie Thompson
$127,495
Manager, Public Affairs and New Media
#23Roderick Browning
$127,495
Manager, Corporate Policy Unit
#24Danny Marafioti
$127,139
Manager, Research and Analytics
#25Raymond Chen
$125,439
Manager, Corporate Planning

See all 77 employees in 2018 →

Download CSV (2018) →Released by the Government of Ontario under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996. Compiled by SunshineList.

Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2017 → 2018

No qualifying raises were computed for the 2018 Sunshine List.

A year-over-year increase or decrease in disclosed pay can include overtime, a retroactive payment, a vacation payout or severance, not only a change in base pay, rate, or role — the Sunshine List discloses total salary paid that year, not a pay rate. This list is ranked by the dollar increase, not by the percentage shown.

22 people were new to Citizenship and Immigration's list in 2018; 16 who were on it in 2017 were not. See the full 2018 roster →

See all pay increases at Citizenship and Immigration →

By Year
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Top Positions
2018 · 5 or more people