Canada and its immigration policies have been in the news regularly over the last 2 years. In the latest changes, the new policy has for the first time introuced a numeric quota on the skilled worker program. A grand total of 20,000 applications will be accepted over the next one year. Given that the number was more like 230,000 on an average in the last few years, the quota should fill up by the end of July (a month from the announcement on June 26).
A well regarded Ottawa based think tank, Conference Board of Canada, has come out with a report on their thoughts about immigration policies and the impact on the country’s economy.
Some excerpts from this report -
- The report, written by the Conference Board’s chief economist Glen Hodgson, said the recent recession provided some relief from tight labour markets. However, he predicted the supply of workers will soon become an issue for the country’s economic development with steady job growth once again the norm, and the large baby-boomer generation either at or approaching retirement age.
- Hodgson reasoned that, without improved immigration policies, Canada will hit a wall in terms of growing the workforce, given that the current birthrate of 1.66 children per woman is far from the level of 2.1 that’s considered enough to sustain a population.
- The Conference Board’s report assumes the rate of immigration will grow to about 350,000 per year by 2030 from the government’s current target of as much as 265,000.
Read the news item at
http://tinyurl.com/2dykpcj
Dallas is the leader in the United States, among cities where folks are relocating, according to a new report by Movers.com.
Houston and Phoenix were next on the list of metropolitan areas where the number of move-ins is much greater than outward relocations, the Internet site found.
“The percentage of people moving into Dallas when compared with those moving out is higher than any other city in our database,” said Move.com spokesperson Kanthi Tatineni.
That jibes with economic reports that show the Texas economy is the fastest growing in the nation.
And the Dallas-Fort Worth area leads the country in population growth
An influential group representing professionals from India and other non-European Union countries will challenge the temporary annual cap of 24,100 to be announced by Home secretary Theresa May on Monday.
Amit Kapadia, director of Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP) Forum that fought a successful legal challenge against immigration rules, said the government’s move to impose an “illogical” cap will be opposed.
“Any such cap will affect Indian professionals because most non-European Union migrants to the UK come from India. But we will oppose and lobby against any illogical number or cap that the government may seek to impose,” he said.
Placing the cap at 24,100 between now and April 2011 means that British employers will not be able to employ any Indian and other non-EU professionals once the limit is reached.
Indians have been among the largest group of professionals recruited in the IT, medicine, education and services sector every year.
Kapadia said any knee-jerk attempt to impose a cap will hurt the British economy and will be opposed by British business and industry.
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For those who have never tasted the expat life, there are lots of questions that arise. I came across this very nice post from someone who has completed a 3 year assignment working from Beijing. Some words that really captured the essence of the expat process, more so the feelings at the end of the assignment. The time when you get ready to return home…
…home is where you hang your hat. I felt little emotion when I visited the good friends now living in our old house. The experience reiterated something that I had often felt while living in China and returning to visit New Jersey: my attachment to specific things and places is diminished. Home is where my family is; the building where we live is just there to contain us.
As nice as it felt to be in Beijing and as happy as I was to see so many friends, it was clear to me that I didn’t quite have a place in the firmament there anymore. I felt a bit untethered, floating through others’ lives without the anchor of my family.
To read the full article, follow this link to Wall Street Journal Online.
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