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guelphite

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Diane Francis: We need immigrants — but not a flood of them
Immigration should target those who can contribute to the economy

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Diane Francis
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May 20, 2021


You have to wonder if the Liberals consulted Statistics Canada before they barreled ahead with their plan to allow 1.2 million more immigrants into the country over the next three years.

Last week, I pointed out that Canada’s unemployment rate is high, at 8.1 per cent, compared to 6.1 per cent in the United States and 5.6 per cent in Australia. Both those countries have prudently cut back on immigration because of the recession and job losses due to the pandemic. But not Canada.

Stephen Poloz on inflation, immigration & commodities

A deeper dive into Canadian statistics yields another reason this proposed policy is unjustified. The rate of unemployment in 2020 among immigrants was dramatically higher than the average, according to Statistics Canada. In 2020, there was 13.5 per cent unemployment among immigrants who landed less than five years before; 11.7 per cent among those who arrived six to 10 years earlier; and 9.5 per cent among those who have been here for more than a decade.

Most importantly, unemployment in Ontario is sky high and given that it’s the principal destination for new immigrants, this must be front and centre when setting migratory targets. Here are the facts: as of April 30, unemployment in the province was at nine per cent, which is down from a pandemic high of 13.5 per cent in May 2020, but still higher than the national average.

And given that Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino intends to allow over 300,000 family class immigrants, along with 198,000 refugee and humanitarian immigrants, to enter the country over the next three years, the issue of housing should be considered.

Housing prices are already sky high throughout most of the country. Bringing in over a million immigrants in such a short time frame will only serve to drive prices even higher, which will price even more Canadians out of the market. This is especially true in large centres like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, which already lack affordable housing.

In Ontario, the waiting list to get subsidized housing is between seven and 10 years. In Montreal, 23,000 people are on a waiting list for social housing, but many units sit in disrepair due to government budget constraints. Worse, half of Montreal’s 21,000 social housing units are already sub-standard. An influx of new immigrants will only exacerbate these problems.

And this will add to the problems caused by the rash of refugee and asylum seekers who started illegally crossing the border en masse in 2017. According to figures compiled by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, police intercepted 58,939 so-called irregular border crossers from the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2020.

All were supported by government until their cases were adjudicated to determine whether they were bona fide refugees. So far, 17,709 have been accepted as refugees, 14,017 were rejected and 24,728 cases are pending. Only a few have been withdrawn.

A snapshot of the refugee problem was taken in April 2018 and showed that 60 per cent of people in Toronto’s shelters were immigrants or refugees.

Until these figures are reduced to manageable levels, the government has absolutely no business substantially increasing immigration into Canada. To do so, given the facts, means that more Canadians will lose their homes and their jobs. And the cost of providing social services to the displaced Canadians and new immigrants will place an undue burden on our already heavily indebted treasury.

The minister should show Canadians a detailed cost-benefit analysis. Immigration is needed, but should target those who can contribute to the economy.
Classic right wing. "rash of refugees at the border" narrative these people all have the same lizard brain

but yeah immigration getting connected to housing prices is definitely bad for immigration
 
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dankboi

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Classic right wing. "rash of refugees at the border" narrative these people all have the same lizard brain

but yeah immigration getting connected to housing prices is definitely bad for immigration
Yes bad for immigration, but the market depends on the business deals which the majority of the community is involving. The majority is immigrants when compared to Canadian citizens.

It seems the Canadian citizens ain't competitive enough.

The immigrant population is outweighing the citizens in many aspects. The skilled immigrants who receive the PR, settles in Canada by buying a house or a property within an year or two, if that's the citizens' issue then the citizens should rethink about their abilities. The International students and their inflated tuition fees are covering for the domestic students education, and all the government all day do is cry over the hosing prices skyrocketing cause the hardworking and money saving immigrants are buying houses for their families and making their future generations safe.
Survival of the fittest.
Also considering the PR holders background of life, they maybe from a country where life and settlement is via owning a house / property for his/her family where as Canadians don't.

This is my understanding.


I am aware of the UK market alone, specifically Central London, As a matter of fact it's way more expensive than Canada and Singapore. Neither the government nor the citizens are crying over this. They don't complain it's because of the immigration, This is why the UK work permit requires anyone to have the minimum yearly salary of £25600 considering the skilled worker is single and on a skilled mid level job. Even though they stated their requirement of minimum annual wages, the work permit won't be issued unless it is skilled enough so the employer will be able to pay him / her £38000+
If I'm a UK PR holder, it'd take 9-10 years for me to buy a property on my own considering that my annual salary is £35000 and I live single till I am 35. Whereas if this is in Canada it'd be just 3-5 years max. It depends on the persons competence. I believe so
 
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Reprehensible, callous, and ethically odious': Canada receiving COVAX supply while other countries fall way behind
Elianna Lev
Thu., May 20, 2021, 8:20 p.m

'Reprehensible, callous, and ethically odious': Canada receiving COVAX supply while other countries fall way behind
An international humanitarian group is calling on the Canadian government to commit to sharing its COVID-19 vaccine supply, at a time when other low- and middle-income countries are falling behind on inoculation.

The medical non-profit group Doctors Without Borders is asking Ottawa to stop accepting vaccine supply from COVAX, the global pool procurement mechanism for COVID-19 vaccines. It recently announced that it’s short at least 140 million doses, in part because of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in India. The World Health Organization, UNICEF and other international agencies have called on G7 countries to donate excess vaccine supplies. While countries like the United States and France have announced plans to donate millions of doses, Canada has yet to make such an announcement. In the meantime, it's continuing to receive COVID-19 doses from COVAX, with 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca that arrived last week, and more expected by the end of June.
Dr. Jason Nickerson, humanitarian affairs advisor with Doctors Without Borders, tells Yahoo Canada News that the vast majority of COVID-19 doses have been administered in high- and medium-income countries, and less than 1 per cent in low income countries.

“Effectively the availability of COVID-19 doses have been monopolized by rich countries,” he says. “The COVAX facility is just struggling to get the access it needs to get to its target of 20 per cent of the world’s population.”

Canada and other countries' vaccine rollouts are already moving on to lower-risk populations, well ahead of lower income countries starting to vaccinate or fully vaccinate their high-risk populations.

Nickerson says that shows that countries need to be making firm commitments on how they intend to share doses, sooner rather than later.
“It’s not just an issue of sharing surplus doses once all low risk people in wealthy countries have been vaccinated,” he says. “It’s really a question of how countries can and when can countries start sharing doses immediately.”

Nickerson says the Canadian government has “hedged its bets” when it comes to the number of different vaccine manufacturers, vaccine platforms and suppliers it secured while negotiating some form of bilateral agreement in advance purchasing to be able to access those earlier than other countries would be able to.

“That has significant implications for public health ethics and global public health generally,” he says. “If we have large numbers of public health workers in low income countries that aren’t protected against COVID, that potentially places health systems and services at significant risk.”

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, a professor of critical development studies and global health at the University of Toronto, calls the situation "reprehensible, callous, and ethically odious."

"First of all, Canada should have refrained from receiving COVAX vaccines either altogether or at least until low- and middle-income countries had fully satisfied their vaccine needs," she says. "That Canada has been singled out for more than half a year as the country that has secured the most doses per capita - up to five times’ population need - and yet has continued to accept COVAX shipments, is beyond shameful."

She adds that many provinces have been sitting on a supply of Astra-Zeneca doses since last week, awaiting decisions regarding their distribution, while most of the world’s population –including people in India, Brazil, and elsewhere currently facing raging COVID-19 infections and deaths– have little or no access to vaccines.

"This situation is an outrage and should be widely condemned by the international community,"she says. "The Canadian government should do the right thing and equitably share its vaccine supply with the majority world."
 

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In order to get Ontario PNP nomination for French speakers, must French language be my first language or English can be the first language and French second language. Kindly advice.
 

Andy Eddy

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In order to get Ontario PNP nomination for French speakers, must French language be my first language or English can be the first language and French second language. Kindly advice.
The Ontario government's webpage says nothing whatsoever about putting French as the first language;

https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontarios-express-entry-french-speaking-skilled-worker-stream

So, no, you just need the required level for the two languages. Make sure you do the correct French language test (TCF Canada or TEF Canada), any other variant of the exam will lead to the application being rejected
 

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The Ontario government's webpage says nothing whatsoever about putting French as the first language;

https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontarios-express-entry-french-speaking-skilled-worker-stream

So, no, you just need the required level for the two languages. Make sure you do the correct French language test (TCF Canada or TEF Canada), any other variant of the exam will lead to the application being rejected
Someone here said they should make French the first language in order to be pulled by French streams. Maybe my memory is bad. There are a few folks here with CRS 520+
@fridge03 is one candidate. If he sees this post he may be able to answer it. He's targeting Quebec
 
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Andy Eddy

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Someone here said they should make French the first language in order to be pulled by French streams. Maybe my memory is bad. There are a few folks here with CRS 520+
@fridge03 is one candidate. If he sees this post he may be able to answer it. He's targeting Quebec
There's nothing on the Ontario government's webpage about this and therefore if an application is refused on those grounds then the rejection must be overturned as the government will not have provided correct information.

This happened with the TEF vs TEF Canada exam. Prior to March 2020, government guidance wasn't clear as to exam eligibility and they were obliged accept standard TEF results as well as TEF Canada results.

If anyone has found an Ontario or Federal government webpage explicitly saying French must be the first language, please share!
 

dankboi

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There's nothing on the Ontario government's webpage about this and therefore if an application is refused on those grounds then the rejection must be overturned as the government will not have provided correct information.

This happened with the TEF vs TEF Canada exam. Prior to March 2020, government guidance wasn't clear as to exam eligibility and they were obliged accept standard TEF results as well as TEF Canada results.

If anyone has found an Ontario or Federal government webpage explicitly saying French must be the first language, please share!
Yes mate I couldn't find it. I checked it : )
 

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Travel restrictions to Canada extended to June 21Trudeau suggests Canada-U.S. border will reopen when at least 75 per cent of Canadians are vaccinated.
 
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