Deafening Silence Dept: What is behind this deafening silence, especially given the traditional importance of the immigrant vote to the Liberal party s fortunes, particularly in the vote-rich GTA?, according to The Star. It changed the investor class program dramatically by doubling the requirements. It introduced changes to the refugee system that are questionable at best. It eliminated a special program for IT professionals to work in Canada without having to apply for a labour market opinion to assess the impact they would have on the job market. Plus many more and michael Ignatieff and Justin Trudeau, the Liberal immigration critic in the last Parliament, have been conspicuously silent on immigration during the election campaign. The Harper regime has made drastic and fundamental changes to the immigration and refugee system. It changed the skilled workers class structure by adding a cap and publishing a list of desired skills; it virtually stopped the sponsorship of parents and grandparents for immigrants it now takes five to six years to finalize a sponsorship in that category. As
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