No argument there. Besides, I try to keep a sight of the big picture. When I say "doctors pull rickshaws" I don't literally mean "Every single one of Canadian PRs are doctors by profession, and every single one of them is pulling a rickshaw". What I mean is that someone with professional degree, expereince and credentials is forced to accept an unsklilled job, or a job far below his qualifications, credentials and experience. I use these words in proverbial sense. So, in reality it could be anyone in any field/specialty with skills/experience that qualified them for PR, but ended up doing somehting not requiring more than a high school degree or BA in liberal arts. I believe I already explained this before, when you were arguing with me about too few doctors driving an Uber in Canada.
Yet you specifically stated worrying about workers with MBAs and IT specialists. BA in liberal arts ins a bachelor degree. Apparently a bachelor degree in liberal arts means you are not educated. I already specified that no IMG is driving Uber unless they want to drive Uber. They have other job opportunities.
To sum it up, if you graduate from Harward you start your caareer at one of the banks on Wall Street. We all know this, it's nothing new (or pertient to Canada only) and, most importantly, is irrelevant to crux of our discussion.
Leave my job out of it. It's not my job to decide if 200,000 or 400,000 or 800,000 skilled immigrants will immigrate to Canada in 2023 or 2025.
These things are decided by federal government bureaucrats, not me, and that's who I am talking about: federal government bureaucrats of Canada, who get their fat paychecks salaries thanks to Canadian tax payers, and as such are answerable to all Canadians (including myself, because I am also Canadian, since I still hold PR status in Canada which has never been renounced or stripped off me).
It is an immigrant’s job or anyone seeking to work in another country to determine what professions are in demand, where the jobs are located within the country, etc. The number of immigrants accepted is based on the about job vacancies. There isn’t a shortage of jobs. There is a shortage of jobs in some fields and a shortage of certain jobs in some regions which is why people considering immigration need to do their own research.
I think you either intentionally or untintelionally misinterpret what I am saying. I am not disputing that there is shortage of all those jobs in Canada. Nor do I dispute that there are too many people coming to Canada, while its job market is too small to abosrb all those people. In fact. I am stating that too many people are admitted to Canada and competing for jobs where there is no scarcity of workers, but scarcity of jobs. So, what are you arguing about?
Certain job markets are too small to absorb the amount of people who would like to move to Canada and in other industries there is huge demand for workers and not enough people moving to Canada. I used the example of very well paying finance jobs. Canada is a small market, Canada can not absorb the demand from new immigrants and workers wanting to relocate from HK and London. The oil and gas industry was in big trouble for around 10 years and Canada could not absorb many of the workers who mostly worked in the Middle East and North Africa when many Canadian employees had not been rehired after the crash in oil prices. Meanwhile there is huge demand for any type of IT workers, many healthcare jobs (nursing, PSW, physiotherapist, ultrasound/radiology techs, etc.), AI, many forms of engineering, etc. lots of jobs available and not enough potential employees.
But I also insist that it's the responsibility of the government to guard its' sovereign borders and decide who will come in and will stay out. There could be 1 billion people all over the world who will stream to Canada if you open the doors and give them all PR card. It's the job of the governemtn to make sure that only those people who are needed and can be gainfully employed are granted admission. How many times I have to repeat myself?