Thread: Canada admits record-high number of immigrants

Canada admits record-high number of immigrants

TheStar.com
February 13, 2011

Canada admitted a record-high number of immigrants last year, with more than 280,600 new permanent residents welcomed into the country, a report released Sunday shows.

That’s the highest number admitted into the country in 57 years and 6 per cent above Ottawa’s maximum 265,000 target, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told a news conference in Toronto.

In 2008, Kenney introduced new selection criteria to limit the eligibility to 38 qualifying highly skilled professions only and found that skilled workers who already had a job offer when they applied for permanent residence fared best of all, making on average $79,200 annually three years after arriving in Canada.

In order to enable a more successful integration for skilled immigrants, Kenney said Ottawa is set to change the “points gridâ€

When it comes to immigration they have got it right. There is alot less problems with illegals as well. Farmers bring people in on visas for the season and they get treated well and decent pay. They pay almost the same for fresh fruit and vegetablesas we do. The people they do allow on work visas are mostly jobs few Canadians want to do or are skilled in. The reason they need doctors is because of socialized medicine. Many Canadian doctors who have been practicing for a while in Canada end up here in the United States. Some of the ones who worked out of the hospitals I used to work in are now in South Florida.

[quote]Kenney said he hoped to make those changes later this year.

“We need to be more flexible . . . skilled trades people who don’t have university degrees or who have very limited English or French language proficiency typically cannot make it through the points grid, but we have a huge and growing need for skilled trade people,â€

[quote="NoBueno"][quote]Kenney said he hoped to make those changes later this year.

“We need to be more flexible . . . skilled trades people who don’t have university degrees or who have very limited English or French language proficiency typically cannot make it through the points grid, but we have a huge and growing need for skilled trade people,â€