Tenure Track Position: Language Competency

Immigration Minister Dept: Their birth certificates, educational records and university degrees all count for nothing. Nor does the provision in Canada's immigration law that applicants who can provide other evidence of English or French proficiency do not have to submit to the test, according to Montreal Gazette. Case 2 reflects exactly the same kind of pointless mental rigidity. Siblings Olivier and Florence Dallaire-Turmel, 20 and 18 respectively, both failed the cardio-respiratory fitness test which their CEGEP, Levis-Lauzon, imposes as a pre-requisite for graduation. Olivier suffers from asthma. And stress might have played a role in the siblings' inability to pass and case 1 starts with U.S.-born and educated Sara Landreth, 30, who has a PhD in English literature. The University of Ottawa has offered her a tenure-track position to teach that subject. Her husband, James Brooke-Smith, born and educated in Britain, also has a PhD in English literature. But under a ministerial instruction signed last month by Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, the two must each pay $280 to take an English language competency test before their applications to immigrate to Canada will be considered. We have argued in this space that would-be immigrants who speak neither English nor French are going to have trouble integrating, and should, unless they offer this country other advantages, be moved down the eligibility list. But PhDs in English literature pretty plainly don't belong in that category. As reported in the news.
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