Although much published in the media is the fact that Canada and Australia have a ‘nearly-same’ economic cycle. Also, that the same woman who helped Australia refurbish its immigration policy a decade ago (Ms. Lesleyanne Hawthorne, University of Melbourne) was heavily involved in the process when consultations on the same subject were initiated in Canada by immigration ex-minister Diane Finley. So we can expect some similarities. …But what I don’t see in common about both of the countries is the amount of resources (land, natural resources etc) each has vs. their current population and its expected growth over a certain period of time, the extreme diversity in their climates and their regional proximities, availability of jobs and employers’ approach towards immigrants in each country, the cost of property and living in general, attitudes of their residents towards newcomers, etc etc just to name a few.
The issues above ARE important when one makes a decision to leave their homeland and settle in another country and HAVE to be taken into account before CIC even thought to develop a like-for-like immigration policy as Australia.
