GARJ said:
Kateg, you are sounding a lot like Donald Trump with those remarks. Immigration hasn't done damage to Canada, it's made it the great country it is. No actual Canadian is complaining that their jobs are being taken away by people with open or post grad work permit.
Read through the forums here. See how hard it is for the immigrants.
Furthermore, there are actual Canadians complaining that their jobs are being taken. First off, there's illegal immigration:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/10/06/15607461.html
The plummeting European economy is prompting hundreds of migrants to come to Canada where they work illegally and take away the jobs of Canadians, officials warn.
Customs agents at Pearson airport have refused entry to hundreds of suspected economic migrants from cash-strapped European countries who claim they are visitors but really want to work in Canada illegally, said front-line officers who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Next, there's the young:
http://business.financialpost.com/news/economy/for-jobless-youth-canadas-search-for-skilled-immigrants-may-sting
But now, at 26 and with a university degree, Mr. Belokoskov has reluctantly acquired another characteristic of the Canadian youth profile: Unemployed.
On the job-search trail for more than three months, he admits: “I haven’t had a single interview yet.” The competition among young people to find employment —the skilled, well-paying variety — could soon get a lot tougher.
PGWP holders are competing for jobs with Canadians (a fact that many on the forum will admit to). They are recent graduates, and the job market right now in Canada for recent graduates is tough:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/recent-university-grads-increasingly-jobless-study-shows/article20357775/
New evidence shows recent graduates of Ontario universities are doing worse on almost all measures of employment compared to those who graduated before the recession.
Since 2006, unemployment for all university graduates has risen and their ability to find work related to their fields has dropped, shows this year’s annual graduate survey released by the Council of Ontario Universities.
If you think you can't find a single Canadian who gets upset at open work permits being handed out like candy to people competing with Canadians for work, you're not looking hard enough.
I'll remind you that you are an immigrant, LMIA or not you still came to this country from another.
So? I supported a strong economy there, and I support a strong economy here. I support Canada putting Canadians first, and unlike many people on the forum here, I'm not complaining about how hard it is.
In the United States, I was making over $150,000 US a year. Here, my job pays $85,000 for the same work. In other words, I took a 55% paycut to be here. Why? Because it's for an employer who can't find a Canadian to do the job in question. The price of my coming here is recognizing the role immigrants play, and trying to be the type of person Canada needs.
The job falls to me to be good enough for Canada, not for Canada to be the type of country I want.
Canada is a good country - it's better than most of the other countries on the planet. Countries are a product of their people, and I don't want Canada losing it's own identity.
I think it should target the best and the brightest, even if that's not me.
Too many immigrants think only of the benefits to themselves, not the cost to others.