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[igotthisguitar]

Ottawa to Boost Immigration By 40%: REPORT

ALEXANDER PANETTA
Fri Sep 23, 4:05 PM ET

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada's current immigration levels would rise 40 per cent within five years under a plan that will soon be presented to the federal cabinet, The Canadian Press has learned.

Prime Minister Paul Martin described immigration in a speech this week as key to Canada's economic success in an era defined by low birth rates, an aging population and an ever-deepening shortage of skilled workers. His immigration minister will address that challenge by announcing the target by Nov. 1 after consulting cabinet colleagues.

Joe Volpe will table a document in Parliament setting out the goal and will also deliver a wide-ranging plan for meeting it in a presentation to his cabinet colleagues next month.

Volpe declined to provide specifics but said something needs to be done to ramp up the country's immigration levels.

"We've got to have more," the minister said in an interview Friday. "There isn't a place in the country that hasn't used that four-letter word: 'More'."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20050923/ca_pr_on_na/new_immigration_target

While, according to Volpe, there may indeed not be a place in the country that hasn't used the word "MORE" (even though this sounds more like an overstatement used for rhetorical effect than anything), i wonder how many regions are all that keen on ramping the official numbers up by a whopping 40% !!!

Also, will Ottawa enforce a policy of kicking the hundreds of thousands of illegals already in Canada out of the country before they're allowed to re-apply for entry?

Of course, as has been the case all throughthe past, most of it really depends on whether they're committed to having their names quietly added to the Liberals' voting lists ... or not

[Wrench]

Yeah. Great.. They screw over people that live in Canada, now they are going to import people so they can screw them too? Maybe the government should fix the system so people can start having kids again. Any way do we need any more unskilled labour in Canada? Its hard enough to get a job just with a BA just image what will happen when the market gets flooded with more labour.

I hate the Liberals, I wish western Canada would finnaly ditch the idiotic liberal hippies in the east.

[igotthisguitar]

[plattwaz]

But yet the reality is, I will still have to go through a 500-page application form, pay almost $1000 dollars, show that I have a ridiculous amount of money in the bank, wait 8 months, have my parents sign off their lives to vouch that I can vouch for him, and STILL have no guarantee that my freaking HUSBAND will get a Cdn work permit so that we can settle in my home country.

Whereas for his home country, we sign a form and show them a marriage certificate (or even easier, swear an oath that we have a "marriage-like relationship") and upon port of entry, they stamp my passport with full working rights.

Way to go Canada.

[rapier]

holey moley, maybe they'll even let me in.

I'm not filling in 500 pages for anyone though.
How much do you need in the bank to get into that place?

[RachaelRoo]

[dulouz]

Canada, like European countries does nothing to boost local births. They prefer the immigration hobby. They don't spend 2% of the effort in making locals reproduce as they do on the immigration hobby. The discussion moves very quickly from the fact there aren't enough children to the creation of new laws, construction of new government buildings to house new immigration agency employees and then the creation of tolerance and assimilation campaigns that require consultants and more and more contracts and spending. The bitrth issue is a serious problem that can longer be denied. It needs attention. Perhaps they could end the retirement scheme since its seems unsustainable but no, they are more obsessed with creating utopias and toying with humanity engineering. All of this on the back of the First People's. The White many truly haveth a forked tounge.

That being said, The US has many hurricaine refugees available that could readily contribute to your retirement scheme and we have deeply discounted Mexicans available for immiediate shipping.

[Alias]

[Tiger Beer]

Its a weird policy.

You'd think they'd invest in their own Canadian citizens (to give and re-direct them skill-wise into whatever vision it is they have).

Just looking abroad for others to come in and do all the cool work seems funny. In addition, the U.S. attracts the best of the best because of significantly more $ involved enticing them (and they'd get a passport eventually with residency from that job). But just offering the passport and citizenship without a specific job available with the intention that those immigrants being there to get the better jobs as they become available over the Canadian-born citizen sounds a bit wacky to say the least.

[bigverne]

[RachaelRoo]

As every year goes by, it just makes less and less sense for a Canadian woman to have kids. With student debt, insanely high regressive taxes on everything, and crap paying jobs (if you can even find one) in relation to the cost of living, it is no longer rational for most young women to choose this path. Oh yeah, and we're supposed to work 40 hours a week outside of the home and frequently do the majority of the work inside the home.
Immigration IS the answer.
Or change the way our society is structured - nah, that's too difficult. Just let more pre-educated workers in.

Bigverne, I think that the RRSP program in Canada is supposed to be an intitial step towards solving the fundamental problems with CPP.

[peppermint]

I'm not sure that a huge bank balance is a necessary qualification for citizenship. I know a former co worker of mine became a citizen a couple of months ago, and he was an ESLer for years who did lots of travelling around Asia. (something tells me he didn't have huge savings)

As for the ideas that Canada doesn't encourage a higher birth rate. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Canada, and Quebec in particular still offer tax breaks and various incentives for families to have children? Kids clothing, childcare and things aren't taxed, and there used to be "baby bonus" cheques sent out monthly. Has that been phased out?

[RachaelRoo]

The baby bonus has been eliminated, and the tax incentives are a joke compared to the actual cost of raising a child. Canada has a serious average wage: cost of living and raising a family problem.

[mindmetoo]

[Octavius Hite]

Whoa guys, Canada is a true nation of immigrants and it is working really well. Everyimmigrant I have ever met has been a hard working and mostly skilled person. Its bigots masked as conservatives who spread the notion of the lazy on the dole immigrant and thats just not true. The Canadian economy is white hot thanks to the price of oil and we don't have enough people to fill the positions whether doctors, engineers or grocery clerks. Im in favor of this policy because the planet doesn't need anymore people, we are already overpopulated as it is. The answer is not have more children, its to bring over skilled people who want an oppertunity for the "Canadian dream", there is nothing worng with that and its what makes Canada the greatest country on Earth.