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Frontier interviews The Honourable Jason Kenney at a Lunch on the Frontier in Regina, May 18, 2012.
Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says the Saskatchewan government did the right thing in limiting the number of extended family members who can be sponsored through the provincial immigrant nominee program.
The Globe and Mail has a fantastic interactive page which gives a fairly comprehensive assessment of our immigration system, and demonstrates why demographics are making immigration more important than ever. Click here to visit the page.
Here is an excellent video that dispells some of the economic myths surrounding immigration. Do immigrants "steal" domestic jobs? No. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezmzE8LYi8k
Niall O’Hanlon believes this may be the day he finally enjoys the luck of the Irish. His Saskatchewan pub, O’Hanlon’s, is Canada’s No. 3 vendor of Guinness stout. But the Limerick native feels well-positioned to emerge as Canada’s busiest pourer this year, boosted by a big St. Patrick’s Day. That’s because he’s expecting reinforcements from the auld sod. Canada’s prairie province of Saskatchewan is seeing an influx of Irish immigrants who come for the jobs and stay for the rugby and rolling hills.
After all, the migration of young people is particularly driven by the labour market, said Serge Coulombe, an economics professor at the University of Ottawa. They also have less to lose and more to gain.
The new rules will make it harder for “bogus refugees,” applicants who are really economic migrants coming from “safe countries,” to entangle themselves in the Canadian legal system for decades while consuming precious services costing billions to Canadian taxpayers.
The 2011 census has revealed that several provinces with varying demographic challenges have had success attracting and retaining immigrants through the provincial immigrant nominee programs introduced in the late 90s, and expanded dramatically in recent years.
Wherever there is a bubble of ignorance, I am there to burst it. Canada, a lovely country known for its open-hearted acceptance of immigrants from a vast array of foreign lands, is quickly becoming a cesspool in which cultures are clashing. These clashes are usually swept under the rug by the host country (Canada) and those who are integrating (at varying degrees) in to the host country.