As per the record, Canada grants around 320000 visas to skilled workers on yearly basis. In order to promote the number of skilled immigrants, Canada has set the pass marks at a comparatively lower level.
A Canadian lawyer from Law Society of Upper Canada is set on the job to bring forth the cases of Canada immigration.
Food industry at Ontario has been requesting the provincial government that they should be granted with the permission to bring more number of workers from abroad based on work permits.
Vice-President of labor and taxation, Justin Taylor (at the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association) has come forward with his opinion that as one cannot make a doctor work at a restaurant, so the time does not demand only doctors and engineers.
Taylor has pointed out that during 2008 summer, 38% of fast-food junctions and restaurants were running short of people to fill in the relevant positions. Canadian Restaurant and Food Services association (CFRA) has asked the federal government to moot over the matter of labor shortage two years back. They made it a point that immigration is the necessity to save CAD $50 billion that comes from food industry.
CFRA also suggested in the report to train the temporary workers who stay in Canada in order to meet the labor shortage, make immigration policies keeping labor shortage in mind, and also to increase in the number of temporary workers.
The Canadian government has accepted the situation of skilled labor shortage and that immigration is the only solution to this problem. Recent step n this favour is the new Canadian Experience Class that permits certain individuals amongst temporary workers and foreign students of Canadian University to stay in Canada as permanent residents.
Recent changes in immigration policy has bestowed immigration minister with greater powers to fulfill this need by giving preference to application of skilled applicants whose skills is in demand in Canada.