Why does Canada have immigration programs to let people into their country, but then is unwilling to give them a job (Please read the details in the comment section of the question.)?

Answer 1

On average, it takes 10 years for immigrants to get hired in jobs for which they have skills and, even then, they are not necessarily working at the skill level to which they have been trained. In March, Jeffrey Reitz of the University of Toronto’s Centre for Industrial Relations released a study showing that immigrants whose skills are underused cost the Canadian economy $2.4 billion yearly. He also estimated that they are underpaid to the tune of $12.6 billion every year. No type of job is exempt. “We used comparisons across the labor force,” says Reitz.

“Unwilling to give them a job” is a private matter that has nothing to do with government. No one is “given” a job in Canada. You have to earn it and convince an employer to hire you. That is not up to the government or to “Canada.”

According to a survey by Canada’s Federation of Independent Business, one out of 20 jobs remains unfilled because of an inability to find suitably skilled labor. This represents about 250,000 to 300,000 vacant jobs in small- and medium-sized businesses alone. The lack is not just in professions that require higher education.

The worst off are employers looking for skilled construction workers, who reported 7.7 percent of jobs went unfilled. They are followed closely by the business services and agriculture sectors. Hospitals and the personal service sector ranked tenth at 3.8 percent. The need is greatest in Manitoba, Ontario, and Alberta.

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