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thepeel
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 Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: Quebec newcomers struggle to find work |
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Newcomers are facing severe challenges finding work in Quebec, while they tend to gain employment much more easily in Manitoba and Alberta, a national study showed Monday.
Immigrants throughout Canada struggle for work in the first decade after they arrive, especially in the first five years. But nowhere is the problem more acute than in Quebec, where they experience �substantially� higher unemployment rates than Canadian-born people � regardless of how long they've been in the country, Statistics Canada said.
The government agency used immigration data gathered last year from the labour force survey to analyze the immigrant labour market, focusing on people aged 25 to 54. The resulting study paints a contrasting picture of how immigrants fare from province to province.
Most immigrants who've lived in Canada for a decade or longer find jobs at the same rate as Canadian-born people as they become more integrated.
In Quebec, however, even established immigrants can't seem to find work � their unemployment rate was 9.2 per cent last year compared to 6.3 per cent for the whole province.
Linguistic challenges may be one reason.
�There may be a greater linguistic mismatch, the French language skills to Quebec versus the English language skills to the rest of Canada,� said Morton Weinfeld, chairman of Canadian Ethnic Studies at McGill University. He believes that �there is still a large number [of immigrants] to Quebec that speak either English, or neither language ... that fact alone could explain the weaker economic integration.�
Several reasons exist for the employment gap in Quebec, the study says, among them that many immigrants tend to attend school or stay home to take care of their families.
�Another factor that could explain higher unemployment rates among immigrants in Quebec could be related to the countries of birth of immigrants living in Quebec compared to other provinces,� the study said, adding that the topic will be discussed in a future report.
On the flip side, the jobless rate for established immigrants in Atlantic Canada was just 4.1 per cent � less than half the region's 8.9-per-cent rate.
By last year, most of the country's immigrants came from Asia, particularly India and China. About a fifth of Canada's population is born outside the country, one of the highest proportions in the world.
Immigrants tend to find work the fastest in Alberta, where a strong economy has created labour shortages, and Manitoba, which has a program that matches skilled workers to employment before they land.
Integration is so successful in Manitoba that even recent immigrants had higher employment rates than Canadian-born people in other provinces.
Ontario is still the largest provincial destination for immigrants, with British Columbia in second spot.
Among cities, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are home to most immigrants. Job-wise, newcomers tend to fair better in Toronto and Vancouver than in Montreal.
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Immigrants are doing well, by this report. Though, I find it strange that the Liberal Globe would give a headline with a negative feel to it to a story with such a positive reality. Immigrants are doing reasonably well. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Well, generally speaking employment is better in places like Manitoba, Alberta, and Ontario for people when compared to Quebec. Sometimes English-Canadians have trouble in Quebec, not just immigrants. After all, the official language is French. It helps be very fluent in French, open to the local culture. If you can understand French very well, have a degree from a Canadian university then you stand a decent chance of working in Quebec. I would generally head to Ontario rather than Quebec even though I speak French. Ontario is more geared towards the economy, creating jobs, business, while Quebec is still attached to its ego. It is a beautiful province, but too focused on being distinct rather than producing and building. Great people in general. |
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