Cam1234 said:
It has nothing to do with being selfish. The point system is there for a reason. Immigrants are already finding it hard to compete and find employment when they arrive in Canada, therefore a certain level of education and experience, among other factors, ensures their survival.
If the point system was relaxed further, you would simply be allowing unqualified people with little chance of survival to enter Canada and join the already swelling ranks of the unemployed and homeless... This situation would be neither beneficial to the immigrant or the economy of Canada...
My 2cents,
Cam
I agree, it's not selfish wanting Canada to have the best immigration system they possibly can. With the new capping measures only a certain maximum number of Federal Skilled Workers will be considered.
It would be unfair if those applicants who did not have adequate standards of work experience, education and language etc were taking up Federal Skilled Worker places from others who do.
It's kind of like the University thing here in the UK right now. The previous government had it in their stupid heads that everyone should be able to get a degree, and have been slowly lowering University standards and inventing all manner of degree courses (like hairdressing) for those occupations which would honestly be far better suited to on-the-job vocational type qualifications.
They don't seem to understand that if anybody can get a degree, the degree becomes worthless. Degrees IMO should be for the higher level of academic students.
Or let's put it another way - let's analogise this by seeing Canada immigration as a gigantic job interview. Canada are the prospective employers, we are the prospective employees. The employee wants to look for the best job with the best working conditions and pay, the employer wants the best people to make it's company as successful as possible. And the whole thing is driven by supply/demand. The interview is a two way process so the employer can see if the employee is suitable, and vice versa. Most employments offer a probationary period in which both employee and employer can terminate the employment at very short notice if things don't work out.
Immigration is the same thing. We're looking for a new country and we want the best quality of life and living conditions, and Canada is looking for the best people to boost its population and make the country as successful as possible. The immigration process and subsequent arrival (let's call the 3 years until you can get the citizenship the "Probation" bit) gives Canada the chance to see you can make it, and you the chance to see if the new country is working out.
And immigration is just as heavily driven by supply and demand as business. The skills that a company needs to fill its numbers one year may be completely different to those it needed a few years ago.
So by saying its unfair for Canada to set high limits with regards work experience, age, language and education etc - it would be like saying an employer is being unfair in only considering people who can actually do the job?
Wayne.
