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Originally Posted by Rerun
Our current immigration system doesn't work. We give preference to "professionals" and those "professionals" end up working as cabbies and janitors because they cannot get Canadian accreditation for their education.
.. and then once you arrive he you are allowed to bring over your immediate family, not matter what their skills are, under the family re-unification policy....
And they all get to go on welfare til they get a job, they get taught english as a second language, and all the other perks Canada offer our recent immigrants.
I think we need to re-think who we allow to immigrate as the current point system is obviously not working.
My grandfather was a German immigrant who emigrated from Russia. He came over here as a farmer and homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the early 1900's. Back then Canada needed farmers and he stepped up to the line. He didn't get any government hand-outs and he learned English on his own. He raised 8 children and they all become productive Canadian citizens and some of his grandchildren have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, and engineers.
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And what's to say that the immigrants coming over here now won't be telling the same story in 40 years minus the farming part? Canada doesn't have a need for farmers anymore, but it does have a need for other things.