Canada to loosen its immigration rules

Not exactly surprising

Ottawa plans to unveil sweeping changes to immigration, starting today with an increase in the annual intake of new Canadians, and a promise to increase much-needed temporary workers and tackle the enormous backlog of 700,000 prospective immigrants.

Immigration Minister Joe Volpe, who will table his annual report to Parliament today, says Canada hopes to be taking in as many as 300,000 immigrants a year within five years, and will start by raising its target for next year to between 225,000 and 255,000. Canada is on track to accept 245,000 this year, the very high end of last year’s target.

“We have to start thinking about the Immigration Department as a recruiting vehicle for Canada’s demographic and labour market needs ..... we are the lungs of the country,” said Mr. Volpe in an interview with The Globe and Mail. “We are producing more jobs than the labour market has workers for. ..... We’re desperate for immigration.”

He also pledged to tackle the backlog problem and introduce a system to expedite the processing of the more than 700,000 prospective immigrants who face waits of as long as 48 months to have their applications processed in Canadian missions around the world.

Under the current process, immigrants are selected on the basis of education, French-.and English-language skills, and adaptability, a recruitment system that attracts mainly highly educated people who complain their professional credentials are not accepted in Canada. Many foreign doctors and engineers say they end up working as taxi drivers and waiters — a trend confirmed by Statistics Canada, which has found that recent immigrants earn less than their Canadian-born counterparts despite higher levels of education.

Mr. Volpe does not want to scrap this selection system, but he wants to bring in more workers on temporary visas (there are about 95,000 a year) to fill positions in the trades, such as pipe fitters and truck drivers.

He plans to consult with his provincial counterparts, unions, business and immigrant-serving groups to better understand exactly what kinds of workers are needed. He envisions an expanded local and provincial role in immigrant selection.

“Every provincial minister wants more immigrants. Today in Saskatoon, they need 5,000 more people to fill new jobs. But in order for us under the current system to bring in 5,000 people, we have to bring in 15,000 (their family members) and it will take three years,” Mr. Volpe said. “So we have to think about a more flexible system, a way to get in professional people and skilled people.”

Mr. Volpe is also planning to introduce a new “in-Canada” application that will allow temporary workers and students to apply for landed-immigrant status once they have worked here for a certain number of months, in much the same way that live-in caregivers can apply for permanent residency after two years working as nannies ...

Mr. Volpe is also in favour of introducing a limited amnesty plan and granting legal status to the thousands of workers who toil in the black-market economy, particularly in Ontario’s construction sector ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051031.wximmigrants1031/BNStory/National/

Posted by jonjayray on Monday, October 31, 2005 at 08:50 AM in Immigration
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Posted by friedrich braun on October 31, 2005, 05:53 PM | #

Everyone knows that greedy, short-sighted Western capitalists who can’t see beyond the immediate bottom line, and the their bought and paid for politicians, are in large meaure responsible for the immigration crisis.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on October 31, 2005, 08:02 PM | #

After spending the past forty-five years doing all in their power to force down white women’s birth rates these left-wing governments across the Western World are now complaining that white populations aren’t up to supplying sufficient numbers of workers so trillions upon trillions upon trillions of Negroes, Chinamen, Subcons, Mexicans, and North Africans must be brought in from around the Third World, all expenses paid, to replace the white race in its entirety in order to please the capitalists’ desire for ultra-low slave wages by third-worldizing whitedom everywhere on the planet where it ever existed. By the way, when was the last time left-wing governments ever listened to greedy capitalists? Whenever it was, they’re sure listening now ...

Posted by John S Bolton on November 01, 2005, 12:16 AM | #

It isn’t about money any more than Keynesian leftism was about how to buildup capitalism. It’s about building up power through the increase of conflict. The Canadian professoriate may have been one of the weakest and most pitifully inept at promoting the class war. Africans could laugh at their incompetence as class warriors. Now, 60 years after Hitler, they have caught on to the idea of race war as the road to power.

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