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Tuesday, 19 June 2012
On the radio today I was listening to a
talk show about immigrants. He was an immigrant in the USA when he
lived there and now his wife and children are technically immigrants now
since they live in Canada. Apparently there is a new report saying how
much the government spends on immigrant and how little they put back
into the economy since typically they end up being in positions that pay
little different than minimum wage or are unemployed.
Here is a link to an article about it:
Well I was on hold for a while to talk
to the host about it. I don't know a lot about immigration and the
statistics mentioned, but I do know that a high percentage of immigrants
come and take very low paying jobs. I know that because I have been in
those jobs most of my life and worked with high percentage of
immigrants. Please don't get the wrong idea about this, I am pro
immigration. I don't feel like immigrants are stealing the jobs of hard
working Canadians. In fact, I know this to be untrue. Just ask half
the people working in sweat shop style call centers selling newspapers.
I met a wonderful lady who spoke fluent English, she was a surgeon in
South America and she came to Canada for a better life. She was working
in a Directory Assistance call center. Dial 411 and speak to a doctor
to find out the local taxi number. In Canada she had to go back to
school to become a doctor here. She would have to start out as if she
just graduated high school. She couldn't afford to go through all of
that schooling again.
At a time where we need so many medical
professionals we are turning them away? I think there are many things
that are wrong with the Canadian Immigration Agency, but putting more
money into helping these people get crappy jobs is not going to help at
all.
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