Canada Reaches A Major Milestone In Its Reliance On Immigration

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Canada has become completely reliant on immigrants for job growth, and the proof can be found in StatsCan’s latest employment data.
For only the second time on record, the number of immigrants with a job grew over the last year, while the number of Canadian-born people with a job shrank.
But don’t conclude just yet that “immigrants are stealing our jobs,” as the old xenophobic adage goes. This seems to be a case of Canadians aging out of the workforce, and younger immigrants taking their place.
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There were 93,300 fewer jobs held by Canadian-born people in May of this year than there were a year earlier, according to Statistics Canada data. Meanwhile, the number of jobs held by immigrants jumped by more than 261,000.
But the numbers show that the Canadian-born labour force — the available pool of workers in the country — is also shrinking, down by 102,000 in the past year. As Canadian Baby Boomers age into retirement, the locally born labour force isn't large enough to replace them.
Or as analysts at Bloomberg Benchmark put it, “Canada’s demographic tipping point has arrived, and without immigrants — who have a much younger demographic profile — there will be no growth.”
There is also another reason for strong immigrant job growth, which is the oil price collapse. As Alberta and other oil-producing regions suffer through a recession, job growth is concentrating in Toronto and Vancouver, which have higher immigrant populations than the rest of the country.
But this is not to suggest that immigrants have it better in the workforce. The data also shows they continue to have a higher unemployment rate — 7.8 per cent in May, compared to 7.1 per cent for the locally born.
For immigrants who have been in Canada for fewer than five years, the jobless rate is much higher. It was 11.6 per cent in May, and has tracked four to seven percentage points higher than the Canadian average for the past decade at least.

Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/22/canada-jobs-immigration-aging-workforce_n_10613658.html

CANADA TO LIFT VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR MEXICO

Ottawa, Ontario
28 June 2016
The Government of Canada has made it a top priority to re-establish and strengthen our relationship with one of our most important partners, Mexico. To this end, Prime Minister Trudeau today announced Canada’s intention to lift the visa requirement for Mexican visitors to Canada beginning December 1, 2016. Lifting the visa requirement will deepen ties between Canada and Mexico and will increase the flow of travellers, ideas, and businesses between both countries.
Closer collaboration between Canada and Mexico on mobility issues will also help encourage travel between the two countries while preventing any increase in asylum claims or other irregular migration. Officials plan to meet regularly to promote these mutual interests.
Canadian officials are working with their Mexican counterparts on final details to ensure a successful visa lift.
Until November 30, 2016, the visa requirement is still in place for Mexico and – until it is lifted – Mexican citizens must continue to apply for a visa to visit, study or work in Canada. Mexicans can apply online for a visitor visa on Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s website, or can use the services of one of the Visa Application Centres in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey.
Visitors are generally allowed a six-month stay from the day they enter Canada. If the Border Services Officer authorizes a stay of less than six months, they will indicate in the visitor’s passport the date by which they must leave Canada.
After the visa requirement is lifted, Mexicans wanting to work or study in Canada will still need to apply for a work or study permit prior to their arrival in Canada. Mexican citizens should also be aware that – once the visa is lifted – they will need an Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) to fly or transit through Canada. Applying for an eTA is a simple, inexpensive (CAD$7) process that takes just minutes to complete online. The eTA is electronically linked to a traveler’s passport, and is valid for five years or until the passport expires, whichever comes first. All visa-exempt foreign nationals – except for U.S. citizens – need an eTA to fly to or transit through Canada. 

Additional information will be provided to Mexican citizens in advance of the visa lift, including details on when Mexicans travellers can begin applying for their eTA.

10 reasons to attend Toronto’s free Career, Education & Settlement Immigrant Fair – one week away!

English: Metro Toronto Convention Centre
English: Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Are you a recent immigrant in Toronto?  Then don’t miss the sixth annual Career, Education & Settlement Immigrant Fair on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 – one week away!
This free event, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (255 Front St. W), is a great kickstart to your successful immigration journey in Canada.
Presented in association with Centennial College, this event provides information and inspiration on three pillars for succeeding in Canada:  careers, education, and settlement.

Ten reasons to visit this free immigrant fair

1. Visit the tradeshow of exhibitors including job opportunities at Bell, North West Company, Toronto Police Services and in the mining sector.
2. Get information from settlement agencies and services providers to help you in your new life in Toronto.
3. Get information on educational opportunities and bridging programs at local post-secondary institutes to help you maximize your foreign credentials and get back into your profession, from law to nursing to accounting (CPA), and everything in between.
4. Bring your resumé for some personal advice at our popular day-long Resumé Clinic.
5. Listen to Keynote address by talent management guru Chandran Fernando of Matrix Search Group on what companies look for in talent.
6. Be inspired by the morning speech from Syrian refugee, Nanor Balyozian, who has found success and happiness in Canada.
7. Get tips from some amazing mentors with our Speed Mentoring activity by ACCES Employment  (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
8. Get tips on taking the IELTS and CELPIP-GENERAL English tests with great success.
9. Ask your job search questions directly to a panel of experts in our first-ever moderated Q & A panel session on careers in Canada.
10. Speak clearer with help from our first-ever on-site Accent Reduction Workshop. Don’t let your communication skills be a barrier to your success!

Who’s exhibiting at the fair?

Here is the list of exhibitors that will be on the tradeshow floor of the Career, Education & Settlement Immigrant Fair in Toronto.

Associate Sponsor: Centennial College
Platinum Sponsor: IELTS -British Council
Platinum Sponsor: Osgoode Professional Development – YORK University
Platinum Sponsor: Paragon Testing Enterprises (CELPIP English Tests)
Platinum Sponsor: CPA Ontario
Gold Sponsor: The Career Foundation
Gold Sponsor: Humber College – New to Canada
Gold Sponsor: Chatr

EXHIBITORS
ACCES Employment
Automotive Training Centre
Bell
Brazolot Migration Group
CAMP
Canadian College of Massage & Hydrotherapy
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Care Centre for IENs
Career Connections-Insurance Institute
Global Experience Ontario
Health Force Ontario
I Dream Canada International Inc.
ICAS of Canada
Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)
Kelen Immigration Services
Magnet
McMaster University- W Booth School of Engineering
Metroland Media Group
MicroSkills
Mining HR Council
Monster Canada
Munera Professional Corporation
New Horizons Media
Next Step Employment Centres-TDSB
North West Company
Northwestern Ontario Immigration Portal
OMVIC – Ontario’s Vehicle Sales Regulator
Ontario Society of Professional Engineers
Professional Access Into Employment (PAIE)/Toronto & Region Conservation Authority
Residence & Conference Centre
RMA-Real Mortgage Associates
Speech Science- Bonnie Gross
St. Stephen’s Community House
Supply Chain Management Association Ontario-SCMAO
Sutherland-Chan School of Massage Therapy
The Chang School of Continuing Education
Thorncliffe Neighbourhood Office
Toronto Police Services
TRIEC
Trios College
Uptown Communications
YMCA of Greater Toronto

To pre-register for the event, please go to www.canadianimmigrant.ca/career fair/Toronto

Mobilité Francophone to bring more newcomers to Francophone minority communities outside of Quebec.

English: Stop sign in Quebec Français : Pannea...
English: Stop sign in Quebec Français : Panneau arrêt au Québec (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
June 1, 2016—Ottawa, ON – Starting today, Canadian employers hiring skilled French-speaking temporary workers from abroad who want to work in Francophone minority communities outside of Quebec will be exempt from the Labour Market Impact Assessment. This will make it easier for employers to hire them.
Before launching Mobilité Francophone, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada consulted and collaborated with Francophone minority communities and organizations across Canada to ensure that the new temporary work permit stream of the International Mobility Program aligns with the communities’ interests and needs. 
“Immigration, both temporary and permanent, has a role to play in supporting vital, vibrant Francophone minority communities anywhere across Canada,” Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Minister John McCallum said. “Mobilité Francophone benefits the employers, the newcomers and the minority communities and it enhances our diverse nation.”
People working in Canada with a Mobilité Francophone temporary work permit will be able to stay in Canada long enough to acquire valuable Canadian work experience. This will help them qualify for permanent residency programs and increase the likelihood that they will be invited to apply for permanent residence in the Express Entry system. 
“The implementation of Mobilité Francophone is very good news, since the specific objective is to increase the number of French-speaking immigrants settling in our communities. The Fédération des communautés francophones et acadienne (FCFA) and the Réseaux en immigration francophone (RIF) are proud to have helped develop this initiative,” said Ms. Sylviane Lanthier, president of the FCFA  of Canada.
Mobilité Francophone is designed for foreign skilled workers who have been recruited through a Francophone immigration promotional event coordinated between the federal government and Francophone minority community stakeholders and who are destined to work in a province or territory outside of Quebec.

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Source: http://news.gc.ca/web/article-en.do?nid=1078419



FOOD SERVICE SUPERVISOR (Restaurant)

-           Supervise and schedule the activities of staff
-           Order inventory and stock required for meal preparation, maintain records of stock
-           Train staff in job assignments, prepare food summaries for chef
-           Serve customers
-           Take order and payments
       Ensure quality control standards are met 
Skills Minimum 3 years experience in Hospitality (Restaurant
Salary of 23,660/year before taxes plus gratuity 
15 days per year paid holidays
All workers are eligible for Saskatchewan Health Insurance, which is paid from workers’ taxes so that there are no additional deductions for the insurance.

Female candidates are

preferable.


Cooks

Five cooks required
Congress Beer House is looking for experienced cooks.
Full-time or part-time year-round shift work and weekends in Saskatoon, SK
$12.50 to 14.00 per hour to start depending on experience.
Minimum three years experience cooking in restaurants, and some secondary school is required.

Duties and Responsibilities
-          Sets up station according to restaurant guidelines
-          Prepares all food items as directed in a sanitary and timely manner.
-          Follows recipes, portion controls, and presentation specifications as set by the restaurant.
-          Restocks all items as needed throughout shift.
-          Cleans and maintains station in practicing good safety, sanitation, organizational skills.


 FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANT

Languages

English

Education

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Counter Attendant and Food Preparer Skills

Use manual and electrical appliances to clean, peel, slice and trim foodstuffs; Take customers' orders; Stock refrigerators and salad bars; Serve customers at counters or buffet tables; Portion and wrap foods; Package take-out food; Keep records of the quantities of food used; Prepare, heat and finish simple food items

Credentials (certificates, licenses, memberships, courses, etc.)

Not required

Dishwashing Skills

Scour pots and pans; Sanitize and wash dishes and other items by hand; Clean and sanitize items such as dishwasher mats, carts, and waste disposal units; Operate dishwashers to wash dishes, glassware, and flatware; Place dishes in storage area

Equipment and Machinery Experience

Grill; Electronic cash register; Conventional oven; Food Dispensers

Experience

Experience an asset

Weight Handling

Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)

Transportation/Travel Information

Public transportation is available

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities

Fast-paced environment; Work under pressure; Repetitive tasks; Standing for extended periods

Work Location Information

Rural area

Personal Suitability

Effective interpersonal skills; Team player; Client focus; Reliability

Kitchen Helpers Skills

Wash, peel and cut vegetables and fruit; Remove kitchen garbage and trash; Handle and store cleaning products; Clean and sanitize kitchen including work surfaces, cupboards, storage areas, appliances, and equipment; Receive, unpack and store supplies in refrigerators, freezers, cupboards and other storage areas; Sweep, mop, wash and polish floors

Food Service Helpers Specific Skills

Replenish condiments and other supplies at tables and serving areas; Load bus pans and trays; Clear and clean tables, trays, and chairs; Bring clean dishes, flatware and other items to serving areas and set tables

Employment Conditions

Weekend, Shift, Flexible Hours

Salary:

$11.00 hourly for 30 to 40 hours per week



Apply with resume  via mail at nexuscanadavisa@gmail.com


Want to Move to Canada If Trump Wins? Not So Fast

The threats to move to Canada if Donald Trump becomes president started appearing long ago, but they've increased in volume and intensity over the past few months. After Trump's big wins on Super Tuesday, thousands took to Twitter in panic and outrage. Canada's immigration website experienced delays, presumably from a surge in traffic. Cape Breton, a Canadian island with an aging population, responded by welcoming Americans and received thousands of inquiries, many of them serious. Moving to Canada became easy fodder for comedians and late-night hosts.

Now that Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, more celebrities are likely to follow in Lena Dunham's footsteps with vows to emigrate north if he wins in November. Already, companies have begun to capitalize on liberal Americans' anxieties: Spotify's "Moving to Canada" playlist, which includes The Weeknd and Justin Bieber (but, oddly, not Drake), is being advertised in the New York City subway, and a Canadian advertising firm has set up a webpage called Trump Clause that includes legal clauses for people or businesses choosing to migrate north. Meanwhile, for the image-minded would-be expat, a roundup of "Canadian Clothing Brands to Familiarize Yourself With Before You Move to Canada" is just a click away. Let liberal America's colonization of Canada begin!
But wardrobe questions aside, what would it actually require for an American to move north? According to Peter Edelmann of Vancouver immigration law firm Edelmann & Co., the process is relatively easy if you're an American doctor, lawyer or architect looking to relocate temporarily and you have a Canadian job offer in hand. (This is thanks to a NAFTA visa for certain types of professionals.) However, for other Americans, permanently settling in Canada is a little more difficult: Most would need sponsorship by an immediate family member — like a spouse, parent or dependent child — or to be a skilled worker in a category that's in short supply in Canada. In other words, maybe it's time to make amends with that Canadian ex-boyfriend, or to consider changing careers to ice-road trucker. But even then, waiting times for permanent residency average about two years through family sponsorship, and many years longer for live-in caregivers applying as workers, while competition among applicants remains steep — the backlog for live-in caregivers alone is currently 38,000-people deep.
This should come as little surprise to Americans, given how difficult it is to immigrate to the United States. In fact, the Brussels-based Migrant Integration Policy index ranks Canada higher than the U.S. in its treatment of immigrants, based on criteria like the ease with which families can reunify, migrants can attain permanent resident status, and workers can switch jobs or maintain their immigration status if they become unemployed. Relatively speaking, educated Americans who want to immigrate to Canada don't have it so bad, especially compared with low-wage Central American or Chinese workers. If anything, it's telling that American citizens living in Canada are usually considered "expats" instead of "migrants" — expats occupy a position of social and economic class privilege within their new country.
Nevertheless, the threat to move to Canada surfaces so predictably among liberal Americans every four years that the two countries' heads of state joked about it on Justin Trudeau's last visit to America.
A mass migration north would not be unprecedented: Roughly 100,000 American loyalists left because of the American Revolution; thousands of black Americans headed north fleeing slavery; 300,000 American pioneers settled in the Canadian prairies in the early 20th century; and some 240,000 American draft-dodgers and war resisters arrived during the Vietnam War. Carolyn Egan, a firebrand with a mane of white hair, is one such Vietnam War resister who arrived with her draft-dodging boyfriend in 1970; she applied for permanent resident status at the border crossing and was granted status within months. A member of Toronto's War Resisters Campaign, Egan is now engaged in efforts to support her contemporary counterparts: U.S. soldiers protesting the Iraq War. An estimated 200 Iraq War resisters have taken refuge north since the war began in 2004, 45 of whom sought refugee status, but 12 years later, those who have not returned to the U.S. or been deported are still maneuvering the legal system; the group estimates there are 20 or so in such a predicament. One of them, a quiet man in his 30s who enlisted after 9/11, fled the U.S. in 2006 after his enlistment term ended and he was stop-lossed — the practice, which John Kerry described as a "backdoor draft," by which the army unilaterally extends a soldier's term. (He requested anonymity because he is now fighting a deportation order.) Since then, he's been vocal in his opposition to the war and sought permanent resident status on humanitarian grounds — the other main option for immigrants to Canada — but remains in limbo. "Sure, I miss home. I've missed a lot of things," he says. "But I still know I made the right choice."
Could a Trump presidency transform society so drastically that other Americans could also qualify for Canadian permanent residency on humanitarian grounds? "Things would have to change significantly," says Peter Edelmann, noting that most people applying for Canadian refugee status today hail from Syria and Iraq. (Incidentally, their migrations are the direct result of the war that the War Resisters are protesting.) Edelmann says refugee claims need to have specific bases, such as the threat of being tortured in Guantanamo, or being punished for speaking out — just what the war resister is afraid could land him a harsher sentence by a court martial, in the event of his deportation. "Canada considers the U.S. to be a safe country," says Edelmann. "American citizens don't seem to be the target."
However, the vast majority of Canada's growing number of immigrants aren't refugees. Most have arrived in recent decades, as skilled workers or through family ties, after race-based immigration criteria were finally abolished in the Sixties, ending preferential treatment for white, European immigrants. Many of today's immigrants hail from global South countries like China and India, where a growing and increasingly educated middle-class is now producing workers just as qualified to work in Canada as many Canadians. And they're also just as qualified to perform jobs that Americans once held, which has stoked fears among many poor, white Americans of being left behind in the global race to prosperity.
These are precisely the fears Trump has capitalized on to propel himself into the Republican nomination, outsourcing blame for high unemployment onto poor Chinese and Bangladeshi workers, who get all the jobs because their employers — the contractors manufacturing H&M and Apple products for Americans — are less hemmed-in by pesky labor and environmental regulations overseas. But American liberals moving to Canada won't change this reality. They would simply be leaving the hard work of political change to those with fewer economic resources, social capital and mobility. Maybe, instead, they should stay home and get their own house in order.


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/want-to-move-to-canada-if-trump-wins-not-so-fast-20160505#ixzz48UvbbiGl

Low Quebec birthrate spurs some calls for increased immigration

MONTREAL — An ever-declining birthrate in Quebec as well as an aging population are putting the spotlight on the province's immigration levels against the backdrop of issues such as the economy, identity, culture and language.
The province's statistics bureau said the 2015 rate was 1.6 children per woman, down one per cent from 2014 and marking the sixth consecutive year it had edged lower.
While that figure may not appear abnormally low, the province also has a rapidly aging population and a growing shortage of skilled workers.
Quebec estimates 1.1 million people will retire between 2013 and 2022 and a recent document published for the Immigration Department said "this situation underscores the need to reassert immigration’s role and its contribution to Quebec."
Immigrants, however, are not spread out evenly across the province, and Statistics Canada estimates visible minority groups will represent 31 per cent of Montreal's population by 2031 — but no more than five per cent everywhere else in Quebec.
Universite de Montreal demographer Marc Termote said he's "very, very worried" about the growing cultural and linguistic divisions between Montreal and other cities.
"What's happening is a profound break between Montreal and the rest of Quebec," he said.
For example, he explained, there are more immigrants in one of Montreal's suburbs, Brossard, than in all of Quebec City, the capital and second-largest city in the province.
Furthermore, Termote said it's a widely publicized myth that increasing immigration will help labour shortages or the economy.
"All the studies show immigration creates a neutral benefit to the economy," he said. "And we will need to welcome many, many more people than we do now for it to affect our aging population figures or fix labour shortages."
Montreal is having trouble integrating the immigrants it already has, with unemployment rates for those born outside Canada at 11 per cent in the city compared to seven per cent for non-immigrants.
Quebec has more control over its immigration policy than other provinces and selects newcomers largely based on language; between 2010 and 2014, 61.3 per cent of immigrants were francophone.
The policy helps preserve Quebec's linguistic distinctiveness, but it also creates tensions, Termote said.
"The pool of French immigrants is not France or Belgium or Switzerland," he said. "It's French Africa, the Maghreb and sub-Saharan, and there are cultural and economic implications to this."
There are also political implications, explains Daniel Weinstock, director of the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy.
Weinstock said Quebec is witnessing a "hollowing out" of the moderate, nationalist position on immigration and diversity that has characterized politics in the province since the 1960s and the time of Rene Levesque, said Weinstock.
Debate is being polarized between the Liberal government, which wants to increase immigration to 60,000 people a year and welcome them based on their economic potential, and an opposition wary of the province's ability to properly integrate them.
"There was a kind of consensus, largely the idea that Quebec is an immigrant society and a francophone society and being a full-fledged Quebec citizen means accepting that social contract," Weinstock said.
That is changing, he said, as many in the province are beginning to think it's not just about protecting the French language "but protecting all other aspects of Quebec culture which certain immigrants, even when they do speak French, may not share."
An example of the new thinking was the values charter the Parti Quebecois government introduced in 2013 that would have prohibited public-sector workers from wearing conspicuous religious symbols on the job. The charter was never adopted as the PQ was defeated in the 2014 election.
The Liberal government quickly backtracked on its proposal to welcome more immigrants after receiving criticism, stating it was planning on keeping immigration levels constant — at 50,000 people a year — for the time being.
When the Coalition for Quebec's Future, a right-of-centre party that is the third largest political party in the province, questioned the merits of increasing the number of immigrants, Couillard accused its leader, Francois Legault, of "fanning the flames of intolerance."
"With 50,000-60,000 immigrants a year we are going to change the cultural face of Quebec and the challenges of a francophone society that is culturally distinct will increase," Weinstock said.
"How that will play out politically is anyone's guess."
Giuseppe Valiante, The Canadian Press
Source: http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1362994-low-quebec-birthrate-spurs-some-calls-for-increased-immigration

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