Immigration: New Immigrants

Canadian Dream Dept: Our story is not unusual. The hundreds of thousands of immigrants who arrive in Canada each year could all tell variations of this story. It’s a kind of “Canadian dream” – that the suffering of the first generation will be worth it because of the success of the next. Yet, the question I sometimes ask myself is: Does it have to be this way? Shouldn’t both immigrants and Canada win in the short and the long term?, according to Globe And Mail. Instead, immigrants to Canada are unemployed and underemployed. About 65 per cent who arrived in the 1990s experienced a low income period, and about one-fifth had chronic low incomes. In the most recent recession, immigrants accounted for essentially all net job losses in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto. Many of the newly unemployed were immigrants who had taken jobs in the manufacturing sector because their skills and experience were not recognized. They now find themselves even further from their original career goals and today, both my daughters are university graduates, and my nephew serves in the Canadian Forces. While recent immigrants are more highly educated than previous cohorts and the Canadian-born, they earn lower wages and have more difficulties entering the labour market in the first place. The number of new immigrants to Canada with a bachelor’s degree is equivalent to the total annual number of undergraduate degrees awarded by Ontario universities, yet Canada has not leveraged this talent into innovation and productivity. As reported in the news.
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