Thank you. Yes, I am trying to be very careful about her not doing anything considered working while here. She is absolutely not required to do anything at all to help me or work around the house, which I have told her in person and in writing many times.
I'm not compensating her with or charging her for housing. She is my best friend and guest, she can stay here as long as she can and needs to whether she helps me out or not. She just insists on doing things like sometimes cooking for us all when I can't, since she would be cooking for herself and her son anyway, and she enjoys things like cleaning common areas or doing washing I had to give up on in the middle of, even when I tell her please don't feel it's necessary.
She is not displacing anyone from a care job, because I have not ever been able to afford to hire a carer, and since I stopped working I cannot afford a biweekly cleaner either.
I had to move 3 years ago and due to illness I am largely still unpacked so sometimes she just organizes some things without me asking. She keeps saying she just sees it as helping a friend and I'd have done the same for her, which I have, when I was a PR in the USA. We have known each other well for 20 years.
She's already told a short version of this to CBSA upon entry each time.
Here is the program that I think I got conflated with CUSPA that mentioned having to have been working with the employer already, but it is an Atlantic program for permanent residence. Not a work visa program.
https://novascotiaimmigration.com/move-here/skilled-worker/
I was formery an avid researcher, but unfortunately lately I have serious memory issues and only a few hours a day of being able to understand things before exhaustion sets in. Unfortunately by the time I rest and wake up the next day, I no longer retain much from the previous day.
Thank you for your info and your time, it is much appreciated.