ASky89 said:
International grads are considered to be very suitable candidates not only for receiving CANADIAN education, which ideally should place them higher on skills transferability scale, but also due to potentially smoother integration to the society.
Ideally, sure, they should be better candidates. Having actually interacted with many of them, a good chunk of them fall short of the ideal.
They have :
a) jobs and network established;
Some do. If they do, then they have the degree and the points for it, as well as Canadian work experience. This gets them points. Some of them can't find a job, at which point they aren't particularly ideal. If they can't manage to find a job after years in Canada, an open work permit, and some degree of language proficiency, there isn't much point in them getting Permanent Residency. They have already shown they can't adapt.
So do some of the other applicants.
c) confirmed contribution to canadian economy based on the fees they paid;
They contribute to the economy, but they may do so less than other applicants. People who graduate from school typically will pay less in taxes than those with more established careers, and will be more likely to take Canadian jobs. Immigrants at present are driving down the standard of living of Canadians, so it's more important than ever to select those who will contribute highly to Canada, rather than just chipping a few thousand dollars each into the economy.
d) might already have property in place;
With the banks that offer newcomer mortgages, that doesn't really mean much.
e) already contributed by paying taxes;
How much taxes will most of them pay, given that they were full-time students who hadn't graduated. It's generally low-skill jobs, competing with Canadians, with minor amounts of taxes paid. Taxes that would have been paid by Canadians, if they hadn't taken their jobs.
d) and quess what, they did not take away the canadian jobs, as canadian are the first to be admitted for the position all else equal.
All else isn't equal. Desperate immigrants aren't going to negotiate harshly for wages, as they need the points. They let employers offer too little to attract qualified candidates, and take the jobs away from Canadians.
PR is not based on your personality, or how much you deserve it
How much you deserve it is exactly the point. The system is designed to be merit based. If you pay for an education, you get an education. The point is not to let people buy their way into Permanent Residency by simply coming up with a few dollars and sitting through classes.
ideally it should have represented the "fit" to the society.
Why? Canada needs only a few immigrants, and should focus only on the best. Not the ones that "fit".
Issuing it on LMIA is favoring ones are not in Canada flips the premise of the intergration into Canadian society.
That's not the premise.
