Any framing of the story by the fucking Toronto Sun is going to be trash.
But it is true that the Canadian system has been overwhelmed. A lot of services and amenities have not expanded as massively as would be needed to accomodate the massive expansion of the population. We have 10 million more people than 20 years ago but the way we operate is the same.
Small example: we are not training as many more doctors and we are not recognizing as much faster foreign doctor credentials. So we have fewer doctors per person.
We are building mostly sprawling suburbia, and we’re expanding mostly highways. We’re still debating high speed rail. Our economy is still basically oligopolistic and extractive and our capital is mostly locked in real estate.
You can see all this and decide that foreigners are to blame, which is what the conservatives want you to think.
Or you can say, hey, we need to change and update the institutions, economy and structure of this country.
Because, this plot of land is actually prime real estate for the next century of climate change, and people are going to keep coming here.
Canada should have a better system to recognize foreign trained professionals. At the moment, they are not attracting highly skilled immigrants, and that is a major factor. Currently, low skilled workers are the majority and the economy can only support so many.
For example, a Canadian student has little chance to compete for a part time job against a TFW or international student who would be willing to work longer hours for less money.
And yes, Canada seems to be relying on real estate, however cannibalistic it is. I like the idea of exporting natural gas to more countries outside of the US, as one option to help improve the GDP.
It’s not true that Canada is not attracting high skilled immigrants. The international student boom is that or at least it can be, I’d Canadian universities are doing their job. Source: I was one.
The problem is that we are shit at putting foreign trained highly skilled people to work. We have an archaic system for recognizing credentials in all sorts of vocations. Indian doctors and Syrian engineers driving Ubers and all that.
Natural gas cannot be a sound long term investment for Canada, given the climate crisis. We have vast renewable resources, we should be becoming the renewable technologies capital of the world.
I knew a guy from a French-speaking African country who had studied international law. He was located in Manitoba doing manual labor. This is possibly the least effective way to use his abilities I can imagine. He should have been placed in a program to get his certifications for Canada and connected to a French speaking community that could help integrate him (provided that’s what he wanted, of course). But there he was, just scraping by.
Any framing of the story by the fucking Toronto Sun is going to be trash.
But it is true that the Canadian system has been overwhelmed. A lot of services and amenities have not expanded as massively as would be needed to accomodate the massive expansion of the population. We have 10 million more people than 20 years ago but the way we operate is the same.
Small example: we are not training as many more doctors and we are not recognizing as much faster foreign doctor credentials. So we have fewer doctors per person.
We are building mostly sprawling suburbia, and we’re expanding mostly highways. We’re still debating high speed rail. Our economy is still basically oligopolistic and extractive and our capital is mostly locked in real estate.
You can see all this and decide that foreigners are to blame, which is what the conservatives want you to think.
Or you can say, hey, we need to change and update the institutions, economy and structure of this country.
Because, this plot of land is actually prime real estate for the next century of climate change, and people are going to keep coming here.
Canada should have a better system to recognize foreign trained professionals. At the moment, they are not attracting highly skilled immigrants, and that is a major factor. Currently, low skilled workers are the majority and the economy can only support so many.
For example, a Canadian student has little chance to compete for a part time job against a TFW or international student who would be willing to work longer hours for less money.
And yes, Canada seems to be relying on real estate, however cannibalistic it is. I like the idea of exporting natural gas to more countries outside of the US, as one option to help improve the GDP.
It’s not true that Canada is not attracting high skilled immigrants. The international student boom is that or at least it can be, I’d Canadian universities are doing their job. Source: I was one.
The problem is that we are shit at putting foreign trained highly skilled people to work. We have an archaic system for recognizing credentials in all sorts of vocations. Indian doctors and Syrian engineers driving Ubers and all that.
Natural gas cannot be a sound long term investment for Canada, given the climate crisis. We have vast renewable resources, we should be becoming the renewable technologies capital of the world.
I knew a guy from a French-speaking African country who had studied international law. He was located in Manitoba doing manual labor. This is possibly the least effective way to use his abilities I can imagine. He should have been placed in a program to get his certifications for Canada and connected to a French speaking community that could help integrate him (provided that’s what he wanted, of course). But there he was, just scraping by.