A Land Of Broken Promise
How many new immigrants come to Canada every year? How many of them feel happy about their new resettlement a short while after their arrivals?
Canada had good reputation for accepting refugees around the world over the past few decades. However new immigrants in Canada has named this country a land of broken promise. They came to this country as skilled workers, not refugees, an immigration program which allows people with backgrounds and experience needed in Canada to migrate to this country. They are medical doctors, pharmacists, teachers, business executives, accountants and more of other professions from various countries, England, India, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Latin America, New Zealand and more. They had been promised guaranteed jobs in their fields, and had looked forward to a better life in this country until they faced the truth: no professional employment is offered unless they have Canadian degrees and experience.
They have been betrayed. Most of them take whatever jobs availabe, from factory workers, taxi drivers, residential and commercial cleaners, to snow shovellers. The years-experienced medical doctor delivers pizzas, the multinaltional executive does telemarketing, the accounting chief is on social welfare. Few of them, in their middle age, are going back to university or apprenticeship while some are leaving for the US. Regardless of staying or leaving this country, all of them feel the same way: betrayed.
"The government has noticed the issue", said the Immigration Minister, "but we need time to fix the problem." How much time do we need? I am sure that he wouldn't know. The Prime Minister said "we need more immigrants to come to Canada." Do you, Mr Prime Minister, want Canada to have highly educated slaves? What's the point to attract more immigrants without creating jobs for them? This country has been lagging behind the States for years in productivity increment. As a result it is losing...
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