Canada immigration good for nation’s prosperity
The findings of the report by CBC (Conference Board of Canada) state a direct relationship between the nation’s prosperity in areas like business, culture, research and global commerce and immigration in Canada.
The study also maintains that immigration to Canada also aids innovation. This is due to the fact that ambition to move to a new nation helps them to take risks leading to innovation, the author of the report, Michelle Downie states.
Ambition drives immigrants to go beyond their expectations by working harder and pursuing more and more, adds Downie. Hence, immigrants in
Canada were directly responsible for increased innovation in the country.
It’s already well known that immigrants in Canada are going to become an integral part of the workforce of the nation as the laborforce heads for considerable trimming following retirements of baby-boomers in Canada. But, the nation is yet to accept the valuable role played by immigrant innovators in Canada, the study reveals.
The report suggests exceptional role played by immigrant innovators in Canada in the fields ranging from arts to business to science.
And business leaders need to learn and acknowledge inherent characteristics of newcomers in Canada who prove to be of great benefit to their employers in Canada.
Moving to a new nation requires ambition and real drive and this factor in itself is one of the exceptional qualities of new immigrants that encourages them to take risks, adds Downie.
After immigrating to Canada, a new immigrant sees things in a different manner thereby perceiving things in a way that other Canadians often lack.
A few examples of successful immigrant innovators in Canada can very well prove this fact.
The man behind Magna International, Canada’s largest auto-parts company, was Frank Stronach, an Austrian immigrant. Mike Lazaridis, Another immigrant in Canada hailing from Turkey was responsible for founding ‘Research in Motion’, regarded to be the most successful Canadian high-tech company. And the fact that one of the world’s biggest gold-mining company was built by Peter Munk, an immigrant from Hungary says it all.
