Immigrants and Job

jobs: But don't conclude just yet that immigrants are stealing our jobs, as the old xenophobic adage goes, according to Huffington Post Canada. This seems to be a case of Canadians aging out of the workforce, and younger immigrants taking their place. For only the second time on record, the number of immigrants with a job grew over the last year, while the number of Canadian-born people with a job shrank. There were 93,300 fewer jobs held by Canadian-born people in May of this year than there were a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada data. But the numbers show that the Canadian-born labour force — the available pool of workers in the country — is also shrinking, down by 102,000 in the past year. Meanwhile, the number of jobs held by immigrants jumped by more than 261,000. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.