Phil, let it go man. Let them know Canada will take in immigrants, and in fact 300K of them. And it has increased from last year. So even if they have anti-immigration stance, it is not going to help because their government has better things to do than to listen to morons. He can keep spewing vitriol here, visa agents will keep approving PRs.
People just keep thinking talent is easy to get. Just look at Masters/PhDs enrolled in big name universities. That alone will tell you the story. Geoffrey Hinton's lab at UofT is the most famous lab in Canada, in fact the world in Deep neural networking. And 60% of his lab consists of immigrants. That alone should tell a story. So keep pandering your anti-immigration stance; but people who matter are not listening. 20-30 age group will always be in demand. Talent is hard to find. Scout LinkedIn for senior managers in Oil and Gas industry; and you will know how many immigrants are in top positions. We will keep taking your jobs. Why? Because our immigrant status does not take away from our intelligence. And oh boy, some of us are bloody intelligent.
Now how does PGWP LMIA is detrimental. I will give you an example. My departmental budget is $5 Million. We have to take on a project that requires specific skill set like CATIA/Solid Works and JSON API integration with MATLAB. Immigrants typically are very very good in packages like HYSYS/Fluent/SolidWorks/Catia/Matlab/Primavera. Good students from China/India are absolutely fantastic in these. And typically in nearly all of them. I interview some candidates and a candidate having PGWP fits the condition. I cannot hire him though, because company does not want temporary status workers. But I have to get this work done. So what I do? I go and hire a Canadian consultancy for $500K. Because that is what consultancies do. Leach money. What will consultancy do? Outsource the work to a cheap bodyshop in India or China. Well so not in the end, not only a deserving Canadian resident has been robbed of a genuine opportunity, but a Canadian company is out of $500K. Company now misses deadlines, unsatisfactory project performance because code quality issues, and most importantly somebody else now know company IP. So I could have all this done in-house for $85K, but now am having to do it for $500K. That $400K would have remained with the department and be used to train 2 more candidates. But instead it is in one consultancy's pocket which he will use to invest in stocks and buy a boat built in a South Korean dockyard. These scenarios play out a lot in the Oil and Gas field. The overhead is so large that it is absurd. Why? Because of scare tactics like LMIAs. This is only one example. A very basic one at that. The reason US is strong is absolutely because of immigration. 46% of Masters/PhDs enrolled in US are immigrants. Google/Microsoft/Facebook is chokeful of immigrants. Your hate is not going to accomplish anything. PGWPs should absolutely be treated with sensitivity. LMIA curtails its freedom and openness. It forces companies to hire mediocre talent. And if you look into functions of OnG companies, boy will you find drones not even knowing how to do summation in Excel. Admin specialist procuring and buying things at 3 times the market price, because they cannot even research properly. But no, in some people's eyes that is fine because they are Canadian. Canada can change its rules to whatever, but this top-up LMIA on PGWP affects talent in a negative way. This is why US sucks a lot of talent out of Canada. US does retain talent. US companies do not hesitate a bit to offer you jobs on work visa, while Canadian companies shy away. A lot of them. This is the major difference between US and Canada.
Companies do not want to touch LMIA because it becomes a political issue. Second they do not want to lose a worker that they will train only to see him leave because he was not granted PR. Third, they do not want to open themselves up to even more bureaucratic scrutiny.
Immigrants are not taking jobs from you, we are competing for the same jobs, giving same format interviews and maybe having a better command of English than you. Maybe you need to take a look at yourself and ask, does having a PR for myself really make me better than others? Just having a PR is not the answer against somebody's talent. When you expose your views like this out in the open, your mediocrity tag shows.
