New immigrants currently constitute only 2.0% of construction workers in the country, and thus more efforts need to be made to facilitate their smooth transition into the Canadian infrastructural market.
I suspect that we’d need a concerted effort to adjust our visa and immigration programs to increase those numbers. AFAIU, the points system rewards white collar credentials. Trades-oriented credentials seem to require Canadian experience in the temporary foreign workers program.
Huh. Yeah that’s a problem, at the very least going forwards.
AFAIU, the points system rewards white collar credentials.
Yes, I don’t understand it all because it’s really complicated, but executive experience gets you more points that anything else, which is ridiculous given the roles that are made available to new Canadians.
It looks like very few new Canadians work in construction:
I suspect that we’d need a concerted effort to adjust our visa and immigration programs to increase those numbers. AFAIU, the points system rewards white collar credentials. Trades-oriented credentials seem to require Canadian experience in the temporary foreign workers program.
Huh. Yeah that’s a problem, at the very least going forwards.
Yes, I don’t understand it all because it’s really complicated, but executive experience gets you more points that anything else, which is ridiculous given the roles that are made available to new Canadians.