Immigrants In Canada

In 2008, Sanjay Mavinkurce, who was working for google in the Silicon Valley, was offered a position in Toronto to be close to his wife Samvita Paduckone, who was, at the time, working in Singapore. Paduckone, with her degrees in engineering and finance as well as her experience in international banking believed it would be easy to find a job in Canada (McMahon). However, she was wrong. After months with no success in finding a job, the couple was forced to move to Seattle. Manvinkurve commenting before his departure “it’s not what any Canadian wants to hear.” “Canada is, by and large, not friendly to immigrants,” (McMahon). Today, I will introduce the topic of educated immigrants, and their importance to the Canadian economy. I will be using …show more content…
Out of that 35 million, 258,953 were immigrants (0.7%) (Stats Canada). As it can be seen, Canada has few immigrants residing within its bountiful borders. Conversely, when considering of the 265,000 immigrants allowed into Canada this year (Proussalidis), only 25,500 will be able to contribute economically (Canada Government). With only 10% of the immigrant population able to work in Canada the selection of who is chosen, is pivotal. I propose the idea, that there should not be a limit on the number of beneficial immigrants. The immigrants who have the ability to out preform Canadian-born citizens should. If a stronger economy is the desired goal of Canada, would it not make sense to accept highly educated immigrant and utilize their degrees? With many saying the country would be overrun with immigrants and our jobs would be taken away, let me ask this. Of the 265,000 immigrants currently allowed into Canada, only 1,000 are allowed to apply to one of the fifty job categories offered (Canada Government). Of that 25,500 only 500 PhD applicants are reviewed (Canada …show more content…
Many immigrants possessing PhDs immigrated to Canada in hopes to find work but, instead have been found working in positions such as taxi driving. Instead of financially thriving in the respected, financially secure jobs, immigrants are redefined as useless. In fact “53% of immigrant taxi drivers had at least some postsecondary education and may be overqualified for their job” (Xu). With Canada’s era of baby boomers now growing older and retiring, a substantial loss of skilled workers puts the Canadian economy at stake. Charles Beach stated “Immigrants contribute to labour market skills that can increase productivity and fill labour market gaps, help maintain economic growth through increasing aggregate expenditures and facilitate global networks of people and