yes because there are millions and millions of dollars of costs to bear to process these applications.
What returns? You mean, in the savings accounts? When they get frozen due to fc issues? Or when the currency depreciates? You can invest your money anywhere in the world while sitting in canada. That being said, canadian real estate has been one of the best investment classes in the world in the last 15 years given the global risk/reward.
There is no quota for foreign qualified doctors. There is no quota for foreign qualified bankers. Or lawyers. Or administrative assistants. There are specific preferential quotas for trades-based skills due to severe lack of such skills in canada. Everyone else comes in based on the same rules. Read them here:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp
if you are a foreign-qualified doctor, you need to do your own research on where the opportunities are for your skills. Well before you decide whether to immigrate. Canada is not holding signs in pakistan enchanting 'doctors needed, this way please'.
Most of you what you state above is factually incorrect:
1. Canada is a democracy like the us. Employers can do whatever they want to hire the skills they need. Canadian oil and gas employers, for example, have recruited heavily in the past from the middle east due to a lack of such skill base in canada. They won't hire the locals for that reason. Us is exactly the same. It does not allow or prevent anyone anywhere from hiring - other than discrimination based on age, religion, etc. - as in canada.
2. Canada is much more diversified in immigrants than the us. Canada accepts ~300k new immigrants annually - about 1% of its population. Us as whole issues 1 million green cards a year: ~0.3% of its population. Only 15% of the us green cards are issued for economic reasons, while ~60% of the canadian immigrants are admitted due to the economic needs. See more at:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/in-immigration-us-loses-out-to-canada-2013-10-18
well, such a guy should ask himself that question before immigrating. He is, after all, immigrating into a country with a highly skilled labour force. He should expect competition. In fact, he should be glad that not everyone is able to hack this process resulting in a lower overall quality.
Yet, if people are lining up to immigrate, it means that they accept the risks and view the benefits of doing so much greater than the costs. More importantly, they understand the hard work needed to build a career in a new country.
That same thing is true for any local as well. That is the reality of today's economy; and if someone can't figure this out yet, they don't belong in today's workplace. You need to train, retrain, and retrain. Mba programs are perfect examples, but even at workplace, you need to relocate, get reassigned, and make sacrifices. If you feel 3-5 years is too long, then don't do it - do something else. Or, move to a country that accepts lower standards.
I, for one, am glad that the canadian system doesn't allow anyone with any degree or any experience to operate on me if i get a heartstroke. I want that person to be trained in a system that doesn't compromise on standards.
If i am giving such advice to a struggling immigrant, i think i am being very helpful. Rather than showing them the unscrupulous shortcuts to life, i am giving them the real life's lesson. One that is much more likely to help them succeed.
Like i said, if you don't want to do the hard work and want to have everything offered to you on a plate, then either win a lottery or don't immigrate. This country is giving you benefits that you aren't paying a cent for.
someone else is. Someone who has (a) worked hard, (b) made money, and (c) paid taxes pays for your free schooling, osap interest, and free healthcare. As a new immigrant, if you don't have a job, you pay nothing. So, get off your lazy back, study some or work hard and then be successful like everyone else had to. Regardless of immigration or not.
A struggling new immigrant will struggle to buy a new iphone without doing the hard work needed for finding a job, sure. That new immigrant can still walk into any clinic to receive north-american standard healthcare for free, can still apply for social welfare, and can still attend some sort of school for free. In fact, for some types of professions where there are skill shortages, the taxes of the rest of the population are used to provide a second-career stipend - to pay for your living expenses too.
Calling a spade a spade in an anonymous online forum is an 'honorable' achievement. If you feel so strongly about it, why don't you raise this issue with the un or another human rights organization? I mean, if this "discrimination based on skills and experience" is really a true issue, then i'm sure:
(a) no one will be lining up to apply for canadian immigration;
(b) your arguments will be getting propagated by all human rights activists around the globe; and
(c) every immigrant will be rushing to get out of this country as seen through a dramatic decline in its population ranks.
Then, next time quote one where it shows the use of an "immigrant" name vs a muslim name.
Don't jinx it. It's been quite a warm December thus far. +2 Degrees Celsius as I type this in the night time + hasn't snowed yet.
