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Tony Fang can hang hard numbers onto a decade of “brain surgeons driving taxis” stories and they prove, he says, that the immigrant dream doesn’t work anymore.
Fang, a professor of human resources management at York University, recently unveiled his evidence to CERIS, the Ontario migration research think-tank.
It used to be, he said, immigrants would work hard and do well. “It isn’t working anymore.”

The points system heavily weights education in choosing newcomers.
Yet 52 per cent of new immigrants are in jobs they are over-educated for, nearly double the proportion of Canadian-born workers, but they earn $2 an hour less, Fang found.
The gap isn’t closing the way it did for people who emigrated in the 1970s.
His research does find positives: immigrants with Canadian experience earn more than Canadian-born workers; immigrants who use the Internet to find jobs earn more than Canadian-born workers.
The Conservative government’s recent changes to the immigration system are supposed to tie migration more closely to job skills, by hand-picking skilled new permanent residents, letting higher skilled temporary workers with Canadian experience apply to stay permanently and increasing the number of temporary foreign workers. How it will work has yet to be disclosed.
“That doesn’t deal with the people already in the system,” says Fang. “We’re bringing in hundreds of thousands of people every year.”
Lesley Ciarula Taylor
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