John McCallum, the minister of immigration addressed a news conference on Wednesday, August 17, 2016 in Vancouver where he discussed about immigration boost coming to Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada is an aging country, so we are in need of new blood because Canadians aren\u2019t having enough babies and so the labor force growth depends very much on the entrance of immigrants,\u201d he said. Conforming to what McCallum said, the Canadian federation of Independent businesses said that there are still many rural businesses in Alberta that are searching for workers in highly-skilled or semi-skilled trades.<\/p>\n
The major issue is that there\u2019s a big misalliance between the people that have been looking for work and positions that are vacant. More than half of the immigrants have an inclination towards settling in major cities of Canada like Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.\u00a0 Therefore, the immigration experts like McCallum and others find an urge to search ways to induce immigrants to go where they are most required. In order to make this possible, a meat packing plant in Alberta provided its immigrant workers with free English classes after they completed their shifts.<\/p>\n
According to McCallum, the best way to induce immigrants to small towns is by offering them some benefits and developing mechanisms to welcome and retain them.<\/p>\n
To this need for augmentation of immigration in Alberta, highlighted by John McCallum, Gil McGowan of the Alberta federation of Labour disagrees by saying, \u201c\u201cWe\u2019re not opposed to immigration; we recognize that immigration is the way we built our country,\u201d McGowan said. \u201cWe\u2019re not even opposed to immigration targets in the hundreds of thousands every year\u2026 the question is, is this the right time to increase them?\u201d<\/p>\n
According to McGowan, \u201cNow might not be the time\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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