Well Free!!!! What ever you said are 100 % FACTS. I am here for the last 1 year and 3 months, and I have experienced exactly what ever you said is 1000 % true. Canada does not need qualified people to work in their professional fields. It needs qualified people to work in Factories/ farms. Just forget about what you did, because what you studied or worked is not even worth a dime in Canada......( I CAN BETTER TELL THIS SINCE I STUDIED IN 2 OF THE WORLD MOST FAMOUS UNIVERSITIES AND EVEN THEY ARE NOT CONSIDERED AS SAME LEVEL AS 3RD RATED CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES HERE IN CANADA......)
I have seen hundreds of immigrants who, after years, are still working in factories, doing pizza deliveries etc and living in the low income houses. I have seen only 2 people who got jobs in their fields after studies....i can count 1000s who finished their masters in engineering, computer sciences, accounting etc last year and are still looking for jobs..........working in call centers, security guarding, doing taxi etc............
If 1 person amongst 1000 gets a jobs, everyone says that you CAN get a job, look at him, he got the job!!!! They just look at that 1 person and not to 1000 who are unemployed/ under employed....
But every one has different motive to immigrate.....
having said all this, i still want my brother to come to Canada, since I am from a country which is in S*******t......at least he can have a safer life. I know he will be living a very very modest life,just like I am living now.... although I was a top earner in the previous country where I studied, earning 90 dollars per hour.......in the last 15 months in Canada, I can tell that hardly i am at break even point now....
if some one is coming to earn money in Canada ( just like someone pointed above....) , then he needs to think twice....
free!!! you have fulfilled your duty by informing others. I must say what ever you said is because of your good heart and nothing else.
To the perspective immigrants!!!!!!
My advice to you is DO NOT LEAVE YOUR JOBS where ever you are. come here,check the situation, and make an informed decision.( I made the very same mistake.. left my job before moving here.....
Canad is the most fortunate country that it gets the brightest of talent from around the world....but is also the MOST UNFORTUNATE country by loosing that talent........... i would say most of the immigrant feel the same way as explained by free, but people are shy to say what is happening to them in Canada.....because after all we WERE top professionals and top earner in our previous life ....lol