Ottawa is working to streamline foreign worker plan

Looking at the current scenario of the employment issues going in the country, the Federal Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney is worried about the situation and looking forward to improve the employment programs. He is working have improvements in the programs that allows the country’s organizations to bring the foreign workers into the country to fulfill the labor shortages in the province’s companies.

Statistics Says:

As per the current figures made available by the Statistics Canada for the month of August that brings out the situation of unemployment rates are around 5.6 per cent in Alberta which is the third lowest in the country, the Human Resources and Skills Development Canada also states that as around 42,885 temporary foreign workers were employed in the province of Alberta during the last year.

The Plan:

The Kenney is planning to meet the leaders in the coming month for looking into the challenges they will be facing for hiring the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and giving more important to the business issues. He wants to initiate a program that is much more efficient than the current one and will also helps to reduce the red tape system, bureaucracy making the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in a better way and more fruitful for the Alberta’s economy.

The minister is looking forward for a program very much slander, and is also misinterpreted by the groups with the point of view having that foreign workers can easily get the Canadian jobs and may also have adverse effect on the various sector of the society like the gas sector and others.
But different groups are of viewpoint that the government have their own criteria for prioritizing the skilled workers but the business have demand for different skills, the government needs to identify those and should bring in workers to fulfill those particular shortages. According to them the vacancies available do not really need the very formal degree standards and should not actually come under skilled workers.

To this the Immigration minister Kenney states that they are working on the sensitive issue for those who do not have appropriate education but can still perform the required work and the criteria will be soon worked out.
The minister is also suggesting that other solution to fulfill this shortage could be inviting unemployed U.S. workers to the country as in the scheme of around 5000 people each year.

The Immigration minister of the country is looking forward for the solutions to fulfill the labor shortages arising in Alberta in the particular sectors.