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Harper promises to recognize foreign credentials
Canada, 7th April: Canada Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has announced his plans of giving recognition to credentials of foreign-trained professionals in Canada.
This step is part of the efforts of his party to help newcomers in Canada get their credentials recognized in Canada at the earliest.
Giving details of the plan of the Conservative government, Jason Kenney, Calgary MP, stated in Vancouver that this is a major step forward towards what the people in Canada had been asking for quite long.
He was accompanied by Wai Young, a Vancouver South candidate who had lost in the 2008 elections by a small margin of 20 votes to Liberals’ Ujjal Dosanjh.
Young is quite familiar with the obstacles faced by new immigrants in Canada primarily due to the fact that her father, who after moving to Canada from China in 1965, had to struggle to get job in a Chinese restaurant.
Loans for paying registration fees, training, exams and other related upgrading costs--
Harper reiterated the voters that loans would be offered to new immigrants in Canada for funding of skills upgrading or skills training provided he wins election slated to be held on May 2 this year. This will be a small investment by the party for the secured future of immigrants in Canada and it will help in strengthening the nation’s future as well, Harper maintained at the news conference.
These loans will help new Canadians find jobs in accordance with their acquired skills/professional qualifications and their expertise, he added. Nearly 40 percent of immigrants in Canada in the age-group between 25-54 years are working on jobs that are not making best use of their expertise and qualifications, he clarified.
$50 million invested for improvising foreign-credential recognition system by conservative —
In the last two years, the Conservative government of Canada has made investments worth $50 million for improving the system of recognition of foreign credentials in the country, he added. In addition, the Conservative government had provided increased funding for training in French and English language. And this move has certainly been of great help to nearly thousands of foreign trained immigrants in Canada for getting employment in the nation, he asserted.