The Environmental Foreign Talent Development Program is a federal program delivered by ECO Canada and offers funding to employers seeking to hire newcomers for full-time environmentally-related roles. The program provides funding of up to $15,000 for new, permanent roles.

The Welcoming Newcomers Wage Subsidy Program provides employers in the electricity sector with a wage subsidy to hire newcomers to Canada in full-time roles. This federal program offers a wage subsidy of 50% up to $10,000.

The Skilled Newcomer Internships for the Bio-Economy Program helps employers in the bio-economy hire internationally educated professionals (IEPs) and newcomers to Canada by covering 75% of the employee’s salary up to $20,000.

If immigrants are such an economic benefit to Canada, why does the Canadian Government need to pay employers to hire them?

They say it is  a shortage that can only be filled by more mass immigration.

Meanwhile,  Statistics Canada reported 2022 unemployment among recent immigrants is at 8.2%, compared to the national average of  5.3%.  After that, it takes over 10 years of immigrant residency in Canada for their unemployment numbers to normalize.   These numbers exclude retired immigrants, here in Canada under “family reunification” rules, and will likely sky-rocket in 2023, with the recent surge in total immigration.

This labour shortage is really just a shortage of trained labour.   More job training is the answer, not more immigration.  A good place to start would be by rapidly expanding the capacity of Canada’s training programs in the construction trades.  At least then we might have a chance of housing all the immigrants who are already here.

International Application Volumes Surge to Record Highs.   Canada processed nearly 740,000 student visa applications in 2022, and is on track to bring in 900,000 international students this year

A deposit for student tuition is the only cash outlay required for a student visa.   Facilitating foreign students is now big business in Canada:  “To study in Canada, you’ll need to apply for your study permit, often called a student visa. You can only apply for your study permit after you’ve been accepted by a Designated Learning Institution in Canada (your chosen college or university), received your offer of admission, and paid your tuition deposit. Once your study permit is approved, you’ll automatically get electronic travel authorization (or eTA), meaning you can enter Canada.”  https://www.applyboard.com/services/study-canada

Immigration minister Marc Miller fully recognizes the system is rife with fraud, “Some people are making a lot of money out of it legitimately, some people are gaming the system, and my principal concern is with that integrity of the system,” he said.

Then, he extended unrestricted work permission anyway, stating,  “Demand for international students is coming from industries in ‘low skilled labour’ like big box stores looking for ‘cheap labour’ who also want students to continue to be allowed to work 40 hours a week.”

Advocates for mass immigration justify their activities by claiming immigrants will do the jobs that Canadians won’t.   The next thing they say is that these entry-level, low-skilled positions being filled by immigrants are just a stepping stone to upward mobility.   This is a Ponzi scheme that relies upon an ongoing future stream of victims.

The alternative is even worse.  As can be seen from the  experiences of France, Sweden, and others, this promised upward mobility turns out to be a false promise for many.  The result is ethnic enclaves on the fringes of cities, populated by low wage generations of immigrants without any realistic prospects of integrating into the host society.  So it is that France and Sweden have created a permanent underclass of cheap labour.

Those with the foresight to oppose this outcome are called racists.   But they are not the ones responsible for the creation of these racial and ethnic ghettos.  That is the handiwork of the real racists in this equation:  those who wish to avail themselves of cheap labour sourced from developing nations.  After all, goods manufactured overseas represent an ongoing transportation cost, whereas cheap labour only needs to be imported once and comes largely at government expense.

As with many facets of the malaise gripping Canada,  Corporatist influence in government is the root problem.