Canada's new immigration law focuses on the youth, language ability and skills
by Kate -February 19, 2011
Canada's economic stability attracts foreign worker to go to Canada to seek job opportunity. When recession strikes other Western countries had cut back on immigration while Canada maintained on keeping the level of legal immigrants high.
280,636 immigrants arrived in Canada last year which was the highest level for the past 57 years and 85,000 arrived as skilled workers.
Changes in the immigration system
The Conservative government of Canada plans to adopt new changes in the immigration system and put more emphasis on youth, language and skilled workers.
Minister Jason Kenny justifies their plan that younger immigrants and high level of proficiency correlates with a grater opportunity for higher income and employment. At present the point system is based on the 100-point scale where an applicant requires achieving the rate of 67 points in order to be accepted.
Assessment based on English and French proficiency earn 25 percent, another 25 percent is credited to the educational attainment of the applicant, work experience earns 20 percent. Age, adaptability and having an arranged employment in Canada can get 10 percent each.
The immigration suggested changing into a system with a dozen of entry points each with a specific rule from the previous one gateway and one set of entry admission criteria. The new system states that each province can nominate any immigrant candidate, employers can also recruit foreign workers and foreign internationals on student visa can now stay even after their study considering that they are job ready and are fluent in English or French.
Points to be considered for the new system
Experts warned the government that the new changes must not pose as a threat in attracting highly educated and adaptable newcomers.
Olivia Chow suggested that those applicants who have strong family ties who resides in Canada such as brother or sister should also be rewarded.
Canada's reasons for the changes
60 percent of Canada's overall newcomers come from spouses and dependants of the immigrants; however Canada suggests that the Immigrants must also contribute to the economic growth of the country.
Immigration lawyer, Sergio Karas said that as Canada faces a growing aging population crunch adding more elderly to the population adds more pressure to an existing overtaxed system.
Professor Alboim, an immigration expert at Queen's University acknowledges that high levels of education are important given the types of new jobs that are created in moving towards a knowledge economy. She also confirmed that research shows that the more higher the educational attainment of an individual the performance becomes better as well and the more flexible he is with the changes in labour market the effective he becomes.
Minister Kenny clarifies that although language plays a vital role the new system he also acknowledges the fact that the point system should also be more intelligent and more flexible to correspond depending on the position applied as well as the attainment of an applicant must also be considered.
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