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Canadian Arab Federation calls on Liberals to oppose new powers for minister
OTTAWA-A proposal to give Canada’s immigration minister sweeping new powers to pick and choose new immigrants is “dangerous” and could open the door to racial profiling, the Canadian Arab Federation warns.
The federation is urging the federal Liberals to oppose the proposed changes, even if it means defeating the minority Conservative government and an election Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion doesn’t want.
“This is clearly a very, very dangerous piece of legislation,” said Mohamed Boudjenane, executive director of the federation, an umbrella group representing 44 groups across the country.
Mar 29, 2008 04:30 AM
Bruce Campion-Smith
Ottawa Bureau Chief

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Government measures will jeopardize entry of immigrants…
VANCOUVER, March 24 /CNW/ – The federal government’s tabled plan to
reduce the numbers of immigrants coming to Canada “is draconian and needs to
go back to the drawing board,” this according to the Publisher and Founder of
Canadian Immigrant magazine, Nick Noorani. Mr. Noorani, who is also the
President of the Vancouver Multicultural Society, says the government needs to
bring more discussion to the table before moving forward on its proposed plan
to give the Minister power to pick and choose which applications to process in
order to clear the 900,000 backlog of immigrant applications.

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What the heck is wrong with us??!! UNBELIEVABLE!!

He took a job cleaning floors after he couldn’t find work in his field. Now he’s on strike
With his university degree and 23 years of relevant experience, Andy Chiu could very well qualify to teach business operations management at Seneca College in Markham, a job that pays $92,817 a year.
Instead, he makes less than a quarter of that, cleaning the college’s floors for $9.90 an hour on the overnight shift.
ANTHONY REINHART
March 22, 2008

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Nova Scotia scraps mentorship PNP and offers refunds
An immigration program aimed at attracting business managers and entrepreneurs to Nova Scotia by promising them business mentorships was doomed from the start, according to an immigration lawyer.
Most immigrants want to settle in Alberta or British Columbia, because of the hot job market, or Ontario and Quebec, said Sergio Karas, a Toronto-based lawyer and chair of the Ontario Bar Association’s citizenship and immigration section.
“People in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are making valiant efforts to reverse that trend but, let’s face it, the jobs are not there,” he said. “Immigrants are going to go wherever the jobs are and business immigrants are going to go wherever the money is.”
By Shannon Klie
Canadian HR Reporter,
March 24, 2008

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Rarely a week goes by when I don’t read a story highlighting the deepening chasm between the demand for skilled workers and the actual supply in Canada.
The consequences for not addressing this growing shortfall are profound. Slower economic growth leading to a loss of competitiveness and a declining standard of living are the most obvious challenges we face if we don’t do more to address our impending work force deficit.
We all know the professions that have a seemingly insatiable appetite for the best and brightest. They include medical, legal, engineering, IT and accounting. But do we really suffer from a lack of talent or are we just not tapping into an obvious resource?
Mar 11, 2008 04:30 AM
Mario Paron

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“You want to see workaholics, those Oriental people work like dogs, they work their hearts out, they are workers non-stop. They sleep beside the machine,” he said during a council debate on whether or not to keep retail stores open on statutory holidays.
“I’m telling you that’s what makes them such hard workers. Those Oriental people are slowly taking over,” he said.

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