Neglect in Canada’s Immigration Systems
Over the years, Canada has attracted millions of business class immigrants into its borders to help boost the country’s economy. However, Canada’s immigration system is failing.
The agencies that have promised to monitor the progress of the immigrants that they sent in have not been doing a comprehensive evaluation of the immigration system as they have promised.
What they were supposed to do
The immigration system is a well lubricated machine, at least it is supposed to be. Immigration agencies advertise special programs to attract different types of working class immigrants into working in the country. Various provinces also look into the immigration system and use these agencies so that their immigrants get transferred quickly into the country. The whole process of accepting immigrants and transferring them to the various provinces are supposed to be monitored by these agencies so that a proper and comprehensive evaluation of the immigration system can give a transparent visual on the primary effects and profits of the immigration system.
Where they went astray
These agencies like Citizenship and Immigration Canda (CIC) promised to evaluate the progress of their programs to ensure that the taxpayers are getting their money’s worth. However, in 2009, Auditor General Sheila Fraser shed the light on the growing neglect by these companies on providing comprehensive reports on the evaluation of their immigration programs. She explained that these immigration agencies have incomplete data on the progress of the working immigrants that they hire into the country. These allegations have prompted the immigration agencies to make a promise for a more comprehensive report the following year. However, the year has ended and according to Volpe, the Liberal MP for Eglinton-Lawrence in Toronto, he is still waiting for those comprehensive reports.
One of the programs that both working immigrants and provinces use is the Provincial nominee program. Basically, provinces in the country offer jobs to immigrants which of course require these immigrants to settle in their province. However, three provincial auditor generals have already confirmed that their province have no idea where their immigrants are.
How they are going to fix it
These immigration agencies have been advised by Fraser that the best way to solve the problem is for them to have a clear and detailed long-term plan for their programs. These programs which as of now do not have a clear definition on how many immigrants they let in to the program should define these issues right away.
