GlobalVisas by Gareth McConnell
Canadian immigration minister Jason Kenney has announced the need to maintain immigration levels for the second half of 2009.
Having spoke with provincial and territorial departments studying employment demand throughout the country, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has decided the number of Canadian visas should be maintained at approximately 250,000 new permanent residents.
“Canada is facing a long-term labour shortage so the government is not going to turn off the immigration tap only to have to turn it back on later,” stated Minister Kenney.
The Canadian economy relies heavily on bringing in skilled overseas workers to supplement an ageing population with British Columbia and Alberta requiring an additional 600,000 foreign workers over the next five years, “as ageing workers retire and their economies continue to expand,” said Kenney.
A report by Statistics Canada recently credited the main driver of population and labour force growth with international migration and attracting skilled immigrants to work in Canada.
“There continues to be acute labour market shortages in certain businesses, certain industries and certain regions. And our government believes that the worst thing we could do during this time of economic difficulty is to starve those employers who are growing of the labour they need to fuel their prosperity,” added the Immigration minister.
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