Skilled Labour and Immigration Policy

immigration policy: What can a Toronto mayor actually do to create jobs? Opinion May 25, according to The Star. Meanwhile, Canada has one of the highest rates of immigration in the world roughly double the per capita level of immigration of the U.S. Sometimes the justification for this policy is current or future shortages of labour, particularly skilled labour, and the future aging of our workforce. Yet our policy of 250,000 immigrants per year predates these concerns, as it dates from Brian Mulroneys Conservative government around 1990. So Tapscott contradicts the current rationalizations for our immigration policy and Re: What can a Toronto mayor actually do to create jobs? Opinion May 25 Don Tapscott notes Torontos youth unemployment is 20 per cent, and he cites sources who raise concerns that job scarcity will be a problem for several decades. And that we will be facing massive changes, including loss of jobs from robotics and other technologies. This is a pretty bleak picture of the job market for North America, and specifically for Toronto. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.