Canada’s decision to close the files of skilled workers who applied to immigrate before March 2008 will give the country a black eye and deter future immigrants with needed skills, according to a Vancouver immigration lawyer. The federal government plans to return applications and refund fees for nearly everyone who applied under the program before … Continue reading
The federal government’s new plan to hire a private firm to assess the educational credentials of potential immigrants is wise. The significance of degrees and professional certificates varies widely and wildly from place to place (country to country and sometimes even city to city) across the world and across disciplines and specialties. The federal bureaucrats … Continue reading
The federal government plans to create a global job bank to bring in more skilled foreign workers, while using a new technique to end the “bizarre” situation in which low-skilled temporary foreign workers are hired in Canadian communities with double-digit unemployment, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday. The job bank idea, modelled after New Zealand’s … Continue reading