Ontario's South Asian transnationals

The changing face of Ontario Canada’s adoption of the ‘points system’8 in the late 1960s and “multiculturalism’9 in the early 1980s opened doors for hundreds of thousands of visible minorities. [...] A growing disconnect The economic journey of Ontario’s visible minority immigrants seems to be following a somewhat different curve than that of earlier European immigrants that arrived in the latter part of the twentieth-century. [...] Competition to attract and retain the best shall become fiercer with the growing awareness and evidence of the crucial role played by the ‘creative class’ in providing economic leadership to a region.21 ‘Commoditization of Creativity’ shall have far-reaching consequences on our future. [...] In November 2005, Canada and the province of Ontario signed a collaborative Canada- Ontario Immigration Agreement outlining how the federal and provincial levels of government would work together in the following areas:. [...] It is of interest to note that, thus far, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada has not yet audited the $920 million expenditure of the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement to ascertain whether any benchmarks of success were ever set in place and the extent to which the objectives of this program have been achieved.22 In 2007, Ontario also introduced its bold new plan, ‘Breaking Down Barrier