Employment Opportunities: Canada and Youth

employment opportunities: Percy Downe told The Huffington Post Canada he is concerned the federal government is admitting too many foreign youth through the International Experience Canada IEC program and suppressing wages and opportunities at home, according to Huffington Post Canada. Last year, approximately 31,000 more foreign young workers arrived in Canada to work than the number of Canadian youth who went abroad for employment opportunities with the program. With the youth unemployment rate almost double the national average, P.E.I. Sen. Despite this, Statistics Canada reports 13 per cent of young people or 365,000 young Canadians aged 15 to 24 can t find a job. IEC would be a wonderful program if Canada had low youth unemployment, the senator told Huff Post. Are we too much of a boy scout Downe asked rhetorically. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.