Kanada startet neues Programm, um 33.000 ausländischen Arbeitnehmern einen dauerhaften Aufenthalt zu gewähren, verrät der Einwanderungsminister
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/ottawa-has-launched-program-to-grant-33000-foreign-workers-pr/article_3f788d97-9446-4377-ae78-54f42ee686ca.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
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Immigration is not a problem. It’s foundational. We are a better country for it. However, we are not a better country through sole sourced migration.
>The highly anticipated program is set to offer permanent status to 33,000 **skilled** temporary foreign workers in **in-demand sectors** over two years. It was announced in November, but officials have been mum about it since.
I’m not in favour of the immigration policies over the last 5 years, but I think this is OK as long as they are reasonable about the sectors and skills they target.
If they do as good a job policing this as they have with the LMIA it will be a disaster. (There are LMIAs in my province saying they can’t find a Tim Horton’s manager for $36 per hour.) It’s just smoke and mirrors so they can say they are doing something while actually only helping the owner class.
This is the interesting thing to me:
> The highly anticipated program is set to offer permanent status to 33,000 skilled temporary foreign workers in in-demand sectors over two years. It was announced in November, but officials have been mum about it since.
> Government data showed that 2,125,035 temporary residents had their permits expire in 2025 and another 1,938,805 are expected to run out of status in 2026. The questions of where they have gone and will end up have prompted concerns over a potential surge of undocumented population.
So if I understand this correctly we’re keeping 33,000/2 million people who are already here? That sounds fairly reasonable, no? Especially since presumably it would be the crème de la crème of the bunch and their specifically using the word skilled.
It would be foolish if we actually turned into a zero immigration country regardless of circumstances or sector like a lot of people seem to want.
So long as this is carved out of our existing PR targets (not incremental) and it exclusively targets industries we desperately need support in (not food services, retail, etc) than I think it’s fine.
But after mishandling immigration for a decade, I’m skeptical of the Liberals’ approach to reducing the temporary worker population being just to make them permanent instead. Temporary work visas expiring isn’t a bug to be fixed – it’s a feature.