Immigrants in Canada – To welcome 285,000, but 14 per cent of university-educated immigrants who’ve come to Canada in the last five years are without a job

Canada aims to welcome as many as 285,000 new permanent residents next year. 

The last time Canada admitted as many as 280,000 permanent residents was in 2010. According to the Minister, this is the highest planned total “in recent history,” and is designed to “attract skilled immigrants” who will “help contribute to our economy and labour market.”

There’s nothing new in this policy announcement. Canada has been successfully attracting “skilled immigrants” since the 1980s when the Canadian government began opening their doors to doctors, lawyers and engineers from all parts of the word. Today the nation is one of the most multicultural societies in the world.

Sorry, let’s be accurate. It’s one of the most multicultural societies in the world with a great divide between immigrant and Canadian-born when it comes employment, according to a Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey.

See, what the Minister fails to mention is that Statistics Canada found 14 per cent of university-educated immigrants who’ve come to Canada in the last five years are without a job. He forgets to highlight that unemployment levels for recent immigrants with university degrees has hit their highest point since June, 2010. He forgets to tell us that university-educated newcomers earn an average of 67 per cent of the amount their Canadian-born, university-educated counterparts do.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Canada: The land of jobless immigrants | rabble.ca.