With the world’s economy drastically changing, and with the wars and poverty quickly escalating across the world. Canada looks like a great escape from of that turmoil. People every year knock on our door seeking refuge and employment within our nation. But can we take on a greater population?
This morning I woke up and looked at the news. There was a segment about job losses increasing from 7.1% to 7.3% I was disappointed, because as a Canadian I am affected by job loss just like everyone else.
Shortly after watching that segment it was followed by a segment about immigration. Now I am by no means against immigrants or immigration. My grandparents are immigrants and my father has lived and traveled all over the world. My mother is an aboriginal, but even they immigrated to our beautiful country at one point or another.
With Canadians losing jobs, and having a harder time getting full time jobs it does not benefit our economy by letting new people enter our country. The west coast is plagued with gang and drug related crime. Most of the gangs are populated by newly immigrated citizens who are having a hard time finding alternate means of income. Others are turning to unemployment or other subsidized income as a means to support themselves and their families it in turn applies stress on the economy.
Immigration works well when we have a demand for positions to be filled, and our own population does not offer the man power to fill it. With a shortage of doctors and nurses employing skilled immigrants in those trades works out great. But when we immigrate doctors or other professionals they have to go through a rigorous and expensive process to get there licence in our country which prevents them from working here. There is also the problem with a language barrier. These skilled professionals don’t always speak English or French fluent enough to be affective in their job, or able to pass the required assessments due to language confusion in order to keep their licence.
Immigration as it stands is not a solution to an economic crisis, especially when immigrating professionals that cannot perform in the required positions. Immigrating at this current time will cause more poverty and unemployment in our great nation.
