"Economy Trumps Family"
The Conservative-led government's Immigration Department under the skilled and empathetic leadership of Jason Kenney set out to streamline immigration proceedings, to better represent the needs of the country, and to make the process fairer to those wishing to emigrate to this country, and it seems they have succeeded. Minister Kenney gets a full passing grade, with honours.
Canada is now giving priority at a much higher level to prospective immigrants possessing job skills that the country requires. And in the process the bureaucracy now has been enabled to dramatically streamline the processing required, by fifty percent. Where five years ago it took 50 months to process applications, that time frame has now dropped to 26 months, still a lengthy period, but a decided improvement.
Relatively new legislation recognizes the imperative of speeding through applications from foreign workers skilled in professions that Canada has a lack of indigenous applicants for. There are almost forty categories of designated occupations the government is committed to filling through the introduction of skilled and educated foreign workers.
Skilled-worker applications now are processed in a seven-month time frame, where previously it would take up to five years to stream through the system. Immigration Canada has been tasked with streamlining its processing and it is meeting the challenge. The emphasis on bringing in skilled workers (along with their families) to fill existing employment categories, has been at the expense of another category; that of family re-unification.
Family reunification, always given a high profile through the immigration program historically, has been placed on a back burner. Something the Liberals and the New Democrats deplore. Where previously immigrants settling in Canada were encouraged and able to sponsor extended family members; parents, grandparents, unmarried children, the emphasis has been placed elsewhere for the time being.
It's a simple matter of efficiency and economy, to fill existing needs to better reflect the needs of the country. It is the highly skilled and the educated that Canada requires to assist its economy and production capabilities.
Canada is now giving priority at a much higher level to prospective immigrants possessing job skills that the country requires. And in the process the bureaucracy now has been enabled to dramatically streamline the processing required, by fifty percent. Where five years ago it took 50 months to process applications, that time frame has now dropped to 26 months, still a lengthy period, but a decided improvement.
Relatively new legislation recognizes the imperative of speeding through applications from foreign workers skilled in professions that Canada has a lack of indigenous applicants for. There are almost forty categories of designated occupations the government is committed to filling through the introduction of skilled and educated foreign workers.
Skilled-worker applications now are processed in a seven-month time frame, where previously it would take up to five years to stream through the system. Immigration Canada has been tasked with streamlining its processing and it is meeting the challenge. The emphasis on bringing in skilled workers (along with their families) to fill existing employment categories, has been at the expense of another category; that of family re-unification.
Family reunification, always given a high profile through the immigration program historically, has been placed on a back burner. Something the Liberals and the New Democrats deplore. Where previously immigrants settling in Canada were encouraged and able to sponsor extended family members; parents, grandparents, unmarried children, the emphasis has been placed elsewhere for the time being.
It's a simple matter of efficiency and economy, to fill existing needs to better reflect the needs of the country. It is the highly skilled and the educated that Canada requires to assist its economy and production capabilities.
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