After George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 and again in 2004, many liberal Democrats who had supported Al Gore and John Kerry announced plans to move to Canada. For most, the threat was empty. But one of this year’s candidates will lose on Tuesday, and another round of disgruntled partisans might threaten to emigrate.
Should they do so, they will find Canada more welcoming than in years past. Canada’s temporary worker program is merging with its permanent immigrant system, “providing a more flexible and adaptive approach to immigration,” according to an analysis by the Conference Board of Canada. The think tank praised the newly-formed Canadian Experience Class, a pathway that will allow highly-skilled temporary workers to become permanent residents.
The Board also found that Canada would need to increase permanent immigration from the current 250,000 people per year to 360,000 by 2025 in order to remain competitive in a global market. Last year, nearly 500,000 foreign workers came to Canada, but about half of those were temporary.
Good news for Americans who are disappointed by the election results.
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1 newwhitetrash // Nov 28, 2008 at 7:16 pm
I’m currently living in Burnaby B.C and I am a white male who makes 40000 dollars a year, approximately. I’m not sure if this is the proper place to be putting in this post but I must find somewhere to express my frustration. Some things I may say may come off as racist but it is a direct result of the racism that I am facing by immigrants here that treat me as if I don’t belong here. I came here from Montreal, a very multicultural city. In Montreal, I have never faced the ignorance and outright hate that I’ve faced in the last two years living here. I can’t walk into any corner store, grocery or gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes without the clerk displaying their disgust with me walking into their store. For example, I walked into the Oases Grocery on 16th avenue and 2nd street in Burnaby just this evening. I made my purchase, with a please and thank you, as always and had my change strewn across the counter, practically thrown down, in front of me and the clerk, an Asian lady with a baby in her arms spin around with her nose in the air and disappear into the back of the store while I was still standing there collecting my change. This is not an isolated incident, nor is it limited to one store. All down Edmonds street, in every store I walk into I face either an Indian or an Asian who looks and treats me as if I don’t belong there. 139 years ago the British and French people who settled this country fought hard to keep it. We remained loyal to Britain, earned our independance, fought the Germans so that we didn’t lose our identities, fought the Americans so that we didn’t lose our identities and now we give the country away without any fight at all. The Indians and the Asians are taking the world by breeding. I strongly disagree with the census saying that there’s 37 million people here. It’s more like 60 and growing. For every 1 that’s here legally there’s probably 3 more that are here illegally. And when they get here they start the breeding. I don’t believe that immigration needs to be reduced, I think it needs to be stopped. It’s not our fault that they’ve filled up their own countries and need to spread over to ours. They did that on their own and they did it on purpose. I’m going to post this everywhere that I can, in the hopes that I can get more support or at least find more like-minded individuals willing to speak up against this aggressive attack on our country. End the immigration now, or risk the loss of the true North, Strong and Free, the extinction and usurpation of Canada. Soon it will be the Chinese and the Indians fighting over our country instead of the British descendants who fought and earned it.
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