Available reports suggest that the recent changes, as proposed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) minister, to the immigration policy of the country, are suitably tailored to inspire more skilled tradespersons to the nation's shores. The goal behind the proposal is to manage the issue of the increasing labor scarcities currently being faced by certain sectors--including construction and natural resources--inside the nation.
Via the overhauled Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP)--which would be made effective sometime later in 2012-the CIC will boast of a simplified program for qualified overseas workers under certain domains, such as construction, and service & manufacturing industries. In addition, via the said program, Ottawa would fast-track the applications of the candidates belonging to certain specific vocations.
The fresh program would be comparatively more flexible even as it will enable Kenney, the minister, to prioritize a particular domain. Priority occupations would be set out in ministerial instructions. Via the present immigration levels plan for 2012, and via the FSWP, the Maple Country intends to accept anywhere between 55,000 and 57,000 trained workers.
Meanwhile, a senior involved person reportedly said that till date, there has hardly been a swell in the numbers as suggested by the CIC.
At the present, the candidatures of all aspirants--under the skilled workers programme--are duly assessed against a table having 100 points. Factors considered include official language skills, work experience, education and age of the candidates, together with job offer in the country, besides their adaptability.
And despite the fact that 10 out of the 24 professions mentioned on the skilled workers' list for immigration are from several trades, till now trained tradespeople constitute just a minuscule 3% of the total number of immigrants under the program. As one can see, the program is heavily tilted in the favor of managers though trained workers are ignored resulting in big backlogs for them (the trained workers).
In the meanwhile, yet another concerned person was quoted as saying that the proposed changes in the immigration program will ensure that the government is at a liberty to choose the skillsets which may be needed in the background of the specific prevailing economic trends at the time.
He added that as global work experience and training find due recognition from the involved officials, assessing the candidatures of the trained migrants will also become much easier. Apart from this, Ottawa will also have the right to fast-track the applications of those candidates whose skills could be needed across the nation.
He continued that the changes as proposed will offer the trained workers the golden opportunity to be duly assessed on the basis of their work experiences and practical training, in place of their university degrees. However, the prevailing requirement of minimum knowledge of French or English language will continue to be in place.
Over-qualification Issue
The Indian Canadian Diaspora have been perturbed over the issue of fresh immigrants getting sucked into doing jobs for which they may be pretty over qualified or remaining unemployed for extended durations, post landing in the country. In this backdrop, the proposed changes are being viewed as a way to positively address such matters.
A recent research in this context comes to the conclusion that the fresh migrants who end-up doing jobs, for which they may be rather over qualified, are exposed to risks involving their mental conditions--that too inside a relatively short duration of time. According to the said research, such highly qualified overseas people registered deterioration of their mental health over a period of four years--the reason of which could be their unhappiness with their particular job situations.
Another concerned person was quoted as saying that the CIC picks-up over skilled, healthy overseas workers to be admitted into this nation even as-- minus right recognition, and use of their overseas educational qualifications, not to mention work experiences-it's highly improbable that such migrants will really manage to realize their true potentials in the Maple Country.
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