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Immigrant skilled workers

17 Nov 2004

In 2002, immigrants selected on the basis of their skill level were nearly 54 percent of all immigrants to Canada, compared to 28.5 percent in the family class and 11 percent who were refugees.2 This is attributable to a combination of factors, such as changes in the federal policy on immigration including the abolition of restrictions on independent immigration in the early 1980s and the stabiliz [...] Federal Immigration Policy Canadian immigration policy has undergone a number of changes in recent years, the most significant of which is the implementation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).7 This Act sets out the rules and regulations for attracting people from around the world who possess skills, knowledge and experience that are in demand in Canada and are interested in inv [...] In the last quarter of 2003, for instance, there were 9,670 new immigrant skilled workers compared to 9,025 for the same period in 2002, a 7 percent increase.15 Composition and Economic Performance of Immigrants To analyze the effects of the current immigration policy on the Canadian labour market and identify areas where improvement is needed, we need to assess the profile and economic contributi [...] The decrease in the numbers for 2002 and 2003 could be attributed in part to the implementation of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in June 2002, which brought about a reorganization of the functions of some Canadian embassies and consulates abroad issuing immigrant visas and the accumulated backlog of cases in some places, e.g. [...] Furthermore, Quebec establishes its own immigration policy and submits its immigration targets annually to the federal government: “Quebec undertakes to pursue an immigration policy that has an objective [of] the reception by Quebec of a percentage of the total number of immigrants received in Canada equal to the percentage of Quebec’s population compared with the population of Canada.”33 Many of
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Authors

Peykov, Pavel

ISBN
0773105042 0773105034
Pages
31
Published in
Canada

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