Richard Kurland: Immigrants

Statistics Canada Dept: Employment among immigrants between 25 and 54 years of age jumped 4.3 per cent in 2011, compared with the previous year, a new Statistics Canada report says, according to CTV. That's mainly because seniority counts in the workplace, said Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland and oTTAWA -- Immigrants are seeing better employment prospects in Canada, but they still lag behind their Canadian-born counterparts because of a gap in local experience, experts say. But total immigrant employment in that key age group was 75.6 per cent in 2011, well below the 82.9 per cent rate for Canadian-born workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.