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Recruit
International recruitment and immigration pathways. Express Entry, MPNP, Global Talent Stream, LMIA, SAWP, CUSMA, work permits, credential recognition.
Winnipeg, MBPractising since 198936+ years
From recruitment
through compliance.+
Threshold Law+ is the new name for the immigration practice David H. Davis has led in Winnipeg since 1989 — now unifying immigration, OCAP-aligned privacy, and sector-specific compliance under a single roof.
Plate I — The threshold
IRCC immigration counselESDC / LMIA strategyManitoba PNPOCAP-aligned data governanceCybersecurity & breach responseProcedural fairness responseInformation-sharing agreementsBusiness investor pathwaysFirst Nations health recruitmentMember, Law Society of Manitoba
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Protect
Regulatory, privacy, and compliance protection. PHIPA, PIPEDA, OCAP, ESDC audits, TFWP compliance, data governance, breach response.
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Establish
Market entry and operational compliance. Multi-provincial privacy, employer obligations, healthtech market entry — and the long arc of staying compliant.
Sector packaging+
Five mandates · three pillars
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Healthcare Recruitment
+ RecruitPhysicians, nurses, and allied health professionals into Canadian clinics and hospitals. Global Talent Stream Cat. A files process in two weeks when filed correctly. We file them correctly.
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Indigenous Health Recruitment
+ RecruitCounsel for First Nations health authorities recruiting clinical talent. The work begins with listening, and is built around community sovereignty — not around it.
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Privacy, Data Sovereignty & Cybersecurity
+ ProtectOCAP-aligned data governance, information-sharing agreements, breach response, and cybersecurity policy — grounded in graduate training in Privacy & Security Law from Osgoode Hall.
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LMIA Applications
+ RecruitEnd-to-end LMIA support through MPNP employer-direct and federal streams. We build the file the way ESDC reads it — and the way an audit will.
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Business Investor Immigration · MPNP
+ EstablishForeign investors through Manitoba's Provincial Nominee Program — Business Investor Stream — to permanent residency: business plan review, performance agreements, work permit to PR.
+ A note from David
Founder, Threshold Law+
D.H. Davis Law Corp.
In thirty-six years of this work, I have learned one thing above all: get it right the first time.Speed without precision is how good people lose their status. Our job is to read the file the way the officer will — and answer the question before it is asked.
— David H. Davis · Member, Law Society of Manitoba
§ The method
Quiet rigour. Plain language. No surprises.
Scope before scope creep
Every engagement starts with a one-page memo: what we'll do, what we won't, and what it costs.
Built on the record
Each step is documented against the regulatory record — so audits, renewals, and appeals begin with the file already in order.
Regulator-ready writing
Submissions in the voice an officer expects: precise, sourced, and free of theatre.
Sector-fluent
Counsel who use the vocabulary of clients' industries — LMIA, GTS, PHIPA, OCAP, SAWP — without over-explaining.
Bridge, do not silo
We surface the connections others leave disconnected: between immigration and compliance, between arrival and the years that follow.
One file, one team
A named partner and a named coordinator. No hand-offs to a queue.
36+
Years immigration practice
75+
Years combined team experience
5+
Mandates under one roof
3+
Pillars: recruit, protect, establish
§ In their words
Trust is shown,
not claimed.
+ Begin a file
The threshold is rarely
as far as it looks.
A 30-minute scoping call with a partner. No retainer required, no obligation. If we aren’t the right fit, we’ll tell you who is.
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