Premiers make recommendations for improvements to immigration

Credit to Author: Edana Robitaille| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:00:13 +0000

Attracting and retaining skilled foreign workers was one of the main topics at a recent Premiers Meeting in Victoria, British Columbia. Canada’s unemployment rate stands at a historically low 4.9% and as a result, the country is facing a shortage of labour. The shortage is due in large part to many of Canada’s aging workers […]

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Analysis: Solving Canada’s 50-year, $50-billion immigration challenge requires multifaceted action

Credit to Author: Kareem El-Assal| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:38:56 +0000

The wage gap between immigrants and Canadian-born workers has more than doubled in the last 30 years, according to a new report by the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) — despite the federal government placing more emphasis on economic class immigration.  Immigrants are earning about 10 per cent less on average than Canadians, RBC reports, […]

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