Well that's reassuring. And yet... you have NO statistical evidence to back this statement up. I can only assume you pulled it out of your ass.
Canada to admit nearly 1 million immigrants over next 3 years
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Well that's reassuring. And yet... you have NO statistical evidence to back this statement up. I can only assume you pulled it out of your ass.
Being a lazy moocher gets you on the wanted list in Canada?
Wow, hereabouts you have to be suspected of a crime. You guys are really harsh: throwing suspected drug dealers off train trestles, fixing to shoot truck drivers for being truck drivers (or maybe just cutting off their arms and legs), putting lazy moochers on the wanted list. . .
One minute you hear that the work world is changing, jobs are disappearing due to technology, and there will be significantly fewer jobs in the future.
The next you hear we need to import more foreigners to take on these non-existent jobs to support our old people.
This makes no sense.
The next you hear we need to import more foreigners to take on these non-existent jobs to support our old people.
This makes no sense.
They should also include the taxes remitted by the folks who build the extra houses for the immigrants to live in...you get the point....well, you probably don't, being stupid and all.
It does make sense when you realize that the language of technology is not exclusively English.
You think those people on the most wanted list are hard working citizens, do you?
I wasn't aware people who can't find work and have very low incomes were buying new houses. Oh wait, you mean the houses that are being put up as public housing? I would expect you would know all about that, since you've probably lived in one all your life. Hey, how about we bring in a hundred million immigrants from Bangladesh! That will require a lotta houses being built! I'm sure that'll really improve our country, eh!
It is in this country, or French in Quebec. The point is if you've got a degree you need to be able to read and write complex technical documents and communicate both in writing and orally with your colleagues at a high level. You can get by being a tradesman with pretty rudimentary English (or French), or as a farm worker or such. But if you want to be an engineer or doctor or financial professional of some kind, deeply fractured, halting English will simply not do.
I was asking a question. As I said, down hereabouts you need to be a wanted criminal suspect to get on the list. Seems like y'all have a different standard (which is OK, I'm not criticizing. Just surprised).
A number of reports came out last year which basically completely trashed the notion there was going to be any kind of heavy shortage of workers in Canada except in a few very highly technical occupations.
A second study in less than a week has concluded that there is no labour shortage in Canada, nor is one expected to arrive in the next few decades. A study published Friday by a University of Lethbridge professor echoes results of a report by the federal government’s Parliamentary Budget Office released Tuesday — both conclude there are more than enough workers on a national basis in Canada to fill available jobs
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Study+debunks+Canadian+labour+shortage/9674478/story.html
I guess if you're fool enough to think that technology don't also call for new jobs, against a mountain of readily-available evidence, that'd be true.
Yeah, but we're focused on people with degrees, even though they don't speak English. What good is a degree in Canada without English or French? Immigrants with degrees earn 20% less than Canadian born do, and a lot of the reason is that their credentials aren't similar and they don't speak English very well.
Yeah, there probably won't be any increase in housing. My bad. They'll all live under bridges
The unwashed (that's you) get their information from newspaper reports, which they're too stupid to understand anyway. I posted actual studies - which, of course, you're too stupid to understand either.
Why are there unfilled jobs in Alberta? In large measure because the companies won't pay an adequate salary to attract the necessary workers. Why should they? They can just advertise a job at a low wage, then when they don't get workers, they go to the government which lets them import temporary foreign workers at a cheaper salary.
Dire warnings of a widespread Canadian labour crisis and a “lost generation” of young workers have been overblown, according to a market analysis by TD Economics. Deputy chief economist Derek Burleton says demographic and economic shifts may be hitting young workers particularly hard, but he doesn’t believe projections of across-the-board labour shortages and skills gaps.
Skills Gap, Labour Shortage Fears Overblown: TD Bank
That was true in the past. Do you believe what was true in the past will always be true in the future? AI is a game changer. Just to start with, the jobs it will be eliminating are the exact kind of jobs that many immigrants rely on. When was the last time you saw a non-immigrant taxi driver, for example? Those jobs are history. Truck driver jobs are history. Lots and lots of low level, unskilled jobs are going to disappear. The jobs which will be spawned are highly technically skilled, and there's no certainty their numbers will be anything like what this will cost.