{"id":125510,"date":"2023-08-18T17:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/opinion-piece-argues-that-the-liberal-party-has-broken-canadas-immigration-system\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T13:51:55","slug":"opinion-piece-argues-that-the-liberal-party-has-broken-canadas-immigration-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/opinion-piece-argues-that-the-liberal-party-has-broken-canadas-immigration-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion Piece Argues That the Liberal Party Has \u201cBroken Canada\u2019s Immigration System\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail columnist Tony Keller\u2019s recent opinion piece holds the view that \u201cthe Liberals have broken Canada\u2019s immigration system,\u201d one which he claims to have been the \u201cenvy of the world\u201d in the past.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>His approach towards proving this assertion follows a line of comparison and contrast between the trajectorial route taken by the Canadian and American immigration strategies.<\/p>\n<p>He launches this argument by highlighting that the former\u2019s stability used to be best expressed in juxtaposition with the latter\u2019s dysfunctionality, but the post-Trudeau immigration system has filtered said dysfunctionality into the Canadian system as well.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In comparison to Canada, The United States has had relatively lower levels of legal immigration since the 1980s. This has been in combination of a diluted focus on attracting highly skilled foreign workers that enrich the workforce, and a simultaneously high volume of undocumented immigrants \u2013 charted at roughly 12 million in 2015 \u2013 operating in low-skill and low-wage jobs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, pre-2015 Canada was a high-immigration country that admitted two-and-a-half times more foreigners than its southern counterpart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Read More:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/the-top-8-most-in-demand-canada-jobs-for-skilled-foreign-workers-in-2023\/\">The Top 8 Most In-Demand Canada Jobs for Skilled Foreign Workers in 2023<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/housing-for-international-students-needs-to-be-built-to-ease-the-pressure-on-canadas-rental-market-says-expert\/\">Housing for international students needs to be built to ease the pressure on Canada\u2019s rental market, says expert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/how-to-immigrate-to-canada-as-a-civil-engineer\/\">How to immigrate to Canada as a civil engineer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>However, its utility did not lie in that simple fact, as per Keller; Canada was a \u201csmart immigration country\u201d that admitted permanent residents based on the points system, which filtered through only the most educated, skilled, and youngest immigrants to the country.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Complementing the same, Canada made it difficult to immigrate illegally to it; people from countries black-listed in terms of visa overstay records found it difficult to obtain a tourist visa to Canada, for example.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Canada and the US both admitted immigrants through family reunification, refugee, and economic immigration streams, Ottawa favored the economic route all the way.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the economic stream, our <a href=\"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-express-entry-immigration\/\">points system<\/a> put the emphasis on people who were more educated or skilled than the average Canadian, and whose contribution could boost not just gross domestic product, but GDP per capita,\u201d says Keller.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA skilled immigrant doesn\u2019t just grow the size of the economic pie. They\u2019re likely to grow it at a rate greater than the rising number of forks in the pie.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Watch video:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pMHa85qwJU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>While the US immigration policy has remained largely unchanged in the past decade, as per Keller, Canada has witnessed a complete reversal of its once-acclaimed strategy on the topic at hand. The Trudeau government, he argues, has made it \u201cmore American.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This Americanization has not seeped into the conversation regarding immigration target levels, however, as that policy area has \u2013 and will continue to \u2013 witness dramatic expansion; by 2025, in fact, the country would be welcoming half a million new Canadians a year \u2013 double the number of a decade ago.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Globe and Mail opinion piece instead argues that Canadian Liberals have brought about a revolution of sorts in the shadow immigration system\u2019s various temporary foreign worker streams, \u201cwhose accent is on admitting people for low-skill, low-wage, low productivity jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) continues to expand temporary admission streams, immigrant intake through them has overtaken intake through traditional immigration.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The supply of highly <a href=\"https:\/\/skilledworker.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">skilled foreign workers<\/a>, writes the columnist, is severely restricted; medical graduates from overseas schools (even Canadians) have difficulty getting employment in Canada, for example, leading to the shortage of healthcare workers that the country is witnessing.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, employers are being provided with an unlimited supply of temporary foreign workers through the education visa stream. 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