Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Canada

Canada: The long-standing program of temporary farm workers will remain; many in agriculture have grown dependent on it. The live-in caregiver program is under review. But the stream that allows employers to bring in low-skill workers to perform low-wage jobs, usually in service industries, is being cut back to a fraction of its current size, with Mr. Kenney telling The Globe editorial board in a meeting this week that he can foresee a day in the not too distant future when that part of the program could be eliminated entirely, according to Globe and Mail. The model for Canada should be Canada. This country has for decades consistently had the developed worlds highest or near-highest levels of legal immigration. Those immigrants are able to relatively quickly become Canadians, going from strangers to neighbours, and enjoying all of the legal rights of their fellow citizens. Its a fair bargain for newcomers to Canada, and an even better arrangement for the rest of us, because a society with a permanent underclass of second-class non-citizens is a coarse and mean place. There are compelling social reasons to want to live in a country where immigrants are Canadians, not permanent guests and Give the Harper government credit: It may have been the lead author of a quietly growing mess known as the Temporary Foreign Worker program, but it is now reversing course and completely overhauling the scheme. Changes to the rules introduced last week by Employment Minister Jason Kenney and Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander promise to dramatically scale back the parts of the program most open to abuse. There are countries in the world that rely on guest workers to do almost all of the unpleasant work that needs doing. Qatar is perhaps the most extreme example a state where most of the labour force is made up of foreign guests who can never become citizens, and who face abuse, exploitation and the threat of being deported if they make trouble for the boss. Qatar is not a model to emulate. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.