New Canada Immigrant Require Good Job!

Immigration should not mean issuing of passports. Immigrants should be also provided with sufficiently paid skilful jobs to meet household expenditures. This is done to curb the increasing poverty and frustration in the immigrants. The 2008 centralized budget has a blend of a number of issues including debt payment, tax free savings account and some debt relief for students and tax cuts for seniors. The federal budget stated that $22 million will be spent between two years, rising to $37 million per year by 2012-13, to "modernize" the immigration system, allowing faster processing of permanent resident applications. The program is designed to condense the stay time of immigrants who cud have had "immediate impact" on the economy. Our enthusiasm to bring immigrants in quickly and our inability to create jobs in their chosen fields are contradictory.

During the period 2001 to 2005, nearly 1.1 million immigrants came to Canada. More than 28 per cent of Ontario, 27.5 per cent of B.C.'s population and more than 45 per cent of Toronto’s population is foreign born. What percentage of skilled immigrants secured jobs in their own fields? What kind of economic situation do they face on arrival? Do we have any measure of poverty among new immigrants? Most immigrants do jobs undermining their skills and are meagerly paid which do not match their quality and potential of work. High immigrants do not ensure high income but a source of educated and cheap labor. The growing economy curbs prosperity of immigrants and thrust them into difficult living situations. Peel has an immigrant population of 49 per cent. Several families live under one shelter into a small place in violation of all safety standards.

Orientation, training and certification programs, the Fair Access to Regulated Professions Act, the Canada-Ontario immigration agreement and Ontario's $5.3 million increase in spending for immigrant settlement are good steps but they do not necessarily create jobs. Reduced exports, soaring energy prices and a higher dollar are the reasons given for Ontario's weak economy and mass unemployment. The unfriendly attitude of the federal government adversely affects the economy and the immigrants. Job creation should be the top priority. Unless there is a balance between the number of jobs and the number of incoming immigrants, this problem is destined to persist.