goodmrng1947 said:
yeah that is right, and specially when there are not many people out here who are well equiped with correct info, its difficult to keep doing guess work. I was also reading about SINP, woow there are people who are waiting for a long time inspite of having a job offer
The biggest issue is Canada's skilled immigration isn't mergering skilled workers with the areas they're needed. They bring in 1000 workers needed in small cities, the Yukon, and NW territories. They all move to Toronto and Vancouver. So there's still a labor shortage in the rural areas
plus it drives up prices for rent and lowers wages in the big cities.
Next, there's the issue of the lag of the program. By the time some workers are approved for PR, the skill is no longer in demand. So Canada is bringing a non in-demand worker over, which makes it harder for the worker to find a job and doesn't address the current job shortages. They really need to improve speed and match people quickly with shortages. That would be a win-win for the country and the worker. This is one big reason they're going to the AEO FSW program.
The FSW is making improvements to the overall economy of Canada, but even the government reports that these improvements aren't as good as they hoped. For example, the average business (this includes all businesses, small and large) profits $37,000.00 roughly per year. (That figure is a few years old.) So you can figure every person brought in under the Economic-Business Classes is profiting $37,000.00. That's really not much. If you look at the rolling data from 2010-2011 in a 12 month period, you had several thousand business immigrants, which makes the total millions. Yeah it's a profit. Yes, most businesses have employees and pay taxes, both which help the economy grow. But that's not a lot of a business. (I haven't looked far enough into it to see if CEOs can flex pay themselves like in the US to make their profits minimal, which could help account for such a low number.)
My advice is to look at small cities. Red Deer, Alberta's mayor has been on the record saying they need skilled workers in certain areas badly. That's a city of 50k just north of Calgary. I actually liked the city. They had sufficent shopping to keep me happy, a nice movie theatre, and it's between Calgary and Edmonton, so you have the best of both worlds without being in a major city. I've already told my husband my plan is to finish my degrees and get a job in a small town. He's already been warned to figure out how to translate his job into this
My #1 thing CIC & the government need to work on is getting foreign workers accepted better into the work force. I personally feel they need to find a way to help workers upgrade or get licensed before arriving in Canada and help place them. Something as simple as giving a small business a tax credit for hiring someone who has been in Canada less than X number of years. (Five or something low, because by 5 years, you should have plenty of Canadian experience.) But it's easy for me to say this as the outsider looking in.
(Just so I don't sound insane, I wrote my university research paper on Immigration. That's why I know these things. I wrote FOR skilled immigration and my teacher gave me an excellent score!)
