Hire immigrants, get incentives-McGuinty to Canada employers
by Harleen Kaur - September 6, 2011
Canada, 6th September: Ontario businesses hiring new immigrants will be offered $10,000 tax credit, as per the plans by Premier Dalton McGuinty.
That’s not all. Ontario Liberals are also giving a promise of offering a break of 30 percent on college and tuition fees in a bid to promote recruitment of immigrant workers in Canada.
Who can qualify for undergraduate tuition grant—As per the rules, families of immigrants need to have a combined income not greater than $160,000 for becoming eligible for undergraduate tuition grant. For majority of students pursuing university and college studies, an annual savings will be tune of $1,600 and $730.
Companies or businesses in Canada will be provided business tax credit provided they hire any immigrant who have stayed in Canada for five years or less.
Meanwhile, Premier McGuinty brushed aside fears of Canadians with regard to losing their jobs to immigrants. He assured the proposal will not result in loss of jobs to native Canadians.
Plan aims to provide work experience in Canada--The main aim of this new proposal, asserts McGuinty, is to help new immigrants coming to Canada to get the much desired work experience in this nation.
Every year, a large number of immigrants with high skills and educational qualifications immigrate to Canada. Hence, the plan is to offer a one-year training opportunity in any business or workplace, informed McGuinty.
This would cost Canada around $12 million annually. Among the targeted immigrants will be those possessing high skills including accountants and lawyers, he added. The move comes after complaints by immigrants in Canada regarding struggle being faced by them to gain work experience after coming in Ontario.
Ontario to become magnet for new immigrants—The number of job opportunities for new immigrants coming to Canada will see a high increase, thanks to the election platform of Tim Hudak.
It will help in easing the transition of new immigrants in Canada by fast tracking recognition of their foreign credentials.
Conservatives condemn immigrant initiative--Meanwhile, the initiative for ensuring vital experience of work in Canada to immigrants is being criticized by Conservatives as an immigrant worker subsidy. Andrea Mandel-Campbell, an Ontario Conservative, said the move is coming at a time when a large number of Ontarians including long-term immigrants are struggling to find suitable jobs in Canada.
Tories, nonetheless, have reiterated the move as a $10,000 action plan for immigrant workers. The program will be accompanied by a one-page flyer throughout Ontario along with a social media campaign. It will educate about scholarship funds worth $30 million for immigrant graduate students.
