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Is Canada’s great skill shortage a mirage?
Don Drummond… hasn’t found a shred of credible evidence that Canada has a serious mismatch between skills and jobs. In fact, most economic indicators point in the opposite direction… Drummond asked finance department officials how they came up with the figure… They refused… he considers it a strong possibility that Ottawa’s heavily promoted Canada Job Grant — the centerpiece of its economic plan — is built on a false assumption.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, jurisdiction
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Human rights chief gives newcomers a break
“The onus is now on the employer to make the case that Canadian experience is a bona fide job requirement. For people who are open to change, the policy requirement may be enough. For people who are resistant, a tribunal or court case will probably be required.”… Study after study has shown that applicants with “foreign-sounding” names get significantly fewer callbacks and job interviews than those with traditional North American names.
Tags: immigration, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Memo to Chris Alexander, Canada’s new immigration minister
We are bringing 250,000 immigrants a year and tens of thousands of guest workers when 1.3 million Canadians don’t have jobs, another million are underemployed or have given up looking for work, and the unemployment rate for both the young as well as new immigrants is twice the national average. Of the immigrants who do have jobs, three in four are not using the education and skills for which they were picked as immigrants.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, participation, standard of living
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We’re missing jobs, not skills, Mr. Kenney
The number of jobs unfilled because of a genuine lack of qualified applicants is surely fewer than 100,000…. Even officially… there are more than six unemployed Canadians for each job vacancy. Practically, the ratio is more like 20 to one. Job creation should occupy 95 per cent of Mr. Kenney’s attention. Instead, he will likely focus on more social engineering: adjusting the expectations, attitudes and flexibility of the unemployed, rather than trying to stimulate job creation.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, participation, standard of living, youth
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Put Canadians first
Refugee health care — which up until recently-included dental care not afforded to native born Canadians — is an unaffordable luxury and frankly, there is no reason to grant unlimited health care services to refugees who have not contributed anything into the communal pot, but who also will be displacing a Canadian citizen in line for our rationed, wait-timed care… Funds can be raised to cover care costs, and medical professionals can donate their time.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, rights
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Fire Jason Kenney and freeze immigration
About 1.3 million Canadians don’t have jobs. Another million are underemployed or have given up looking for work. The unemployment rate for the young is twice the national average, though they are the most educated in our history. Yet Kenney has kept bringing 250,000 and more immigrants every year. Many of them can’t find jobs, either. Their unemployment rate is twice the national rate. Of those who do have jobs, three in four are not working in their fields — not using the education and skills for which they were selected as immigrants.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living, youth
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Riots spread outside Swedish capital
In a country famed for its model welfare state, the rioting has exposed a fault-line between a well-off majority and a minority – often young people with immigrant backgrounds – who are poorly educated, cannot find work and feel pushed to the edge of society… seven years of centre-right rule have chipped away at benefits… up to a third of young people aged 16 to 29 in some of the most deprived areas of Sweden’s big cities neither study nor have a job.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Progressive values are on the rise in the U.S. and Canada
The national poll reveals that Canadians, both new immigrants and Canadian-born, overwhelmingly support progressive values such as reducing income inequality, better pensions, and stronger environmental regulations… there is no significant statistical difference between the attitudes… contrary to recent reports that have portrayed the political trend lines of the country as moving in a small “c” conservative direction. If anything, the opposite would seem to be the case.”
Tags: ideology, immigration, multiculturalism
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Tories gear up for (historical) war
In the 1990s, a war raged. Known as the “history wars,” scholars argued over appropriate subject matter and methods for understanding the past. In Canada, one side of this debate believed that the past should focus on politics, economics and the military; the other side felt that the past was broader. Looking more at society and culture, they argued for a more nuanced understanding that included the contributions of women, immigrants, indigenous peoples and workers.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, jurisdiction, women
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What to do about Canada’s labour market? Get out of the way
… importing temporary workers to staff Calgary pubs keeps wages in Calgary lower than they should be while paying EI to seasonal workers year after year keeps them in jobs that can never give them a decent income. The federal government should get out of both sides of this equation… and let the labour market work as it should. Wages should rise in Calgary. Atlantic Canadians should move to take advantage of them.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, rights, standard of living
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