Kenney is a politician and is doing what most irresponsible politician do.
He has made a mockrey of the Canadian immigration system and his department.
A backlog of anytime more than a couple of years is unhealthy for the country:
1. Future immigrants loose faith in the system and opt for other means to get entry (illegal means)
2. Government has to spend millions to stop illegal immigration.
3. Any immigrant who lands in the country after waiting for 7 to 10 years has spent a chunk of his productive life waiting. The Country looses these man hours.
4. Dissuades future skilled workers to chose Canada for immigration, they rather choose other countries with faster an more transparent immigration systems.
5. Migrants would take medical and retirement benefits 7 to 10 years earlier.
6. Migrants get 7 to 10 years less time to settle in the Canadian way of life.
7. Migrant's children loose competitive edge by not having Canadian education for that period.
8. The job markets change and the profession in demand are no longer in demand.
9. This reflects the inefficiency of the government as a whole.
10. Defeats the real purpose of Skilled worker immigration.
Now that the old Fast track is also scrapped, as many of the occupation which were in demand are no more in demand, the back log created by this should be behind the older backlog as both are those applicants whose skills and occupations are no longer in demand.
Then why is the old fast track back log being given priority over those waiting longest?
Is Kenney making a fool of just the old back log applicants or is he also making a mockery of the immigration system and his department and even the opposition MPs and parliament where he said "they will get priority who have waited longest"
Or he has made Canada as a country, look foolish and actually fooling the citizen of his own country.
Now the Canadian citizen are paying for his trips across the world to stop illegal immigration and also for immigrants coming after 8 to 10 years and going straight for benefit money as their professions are no longer in demand.
If Kenney cannot run the immigration department efficiently, he should step down to let some one else do the job. We believe actually Kenney's skills of being an ineffective politician are no longer in demand!!
