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Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares an Axios report: When it comes to high-skilled immigration, the U.S.'s loss could be Canada's gain. Canada recently launched a Global Skills Strategy visa program to make it easier for its companies to bring in foreign workers with specific technology or business skills. The program allows firms to have a position pre-approved and get visas within two weeks -- a stark contrast to the months-long U.S. visa process. Why it matters: The Trump administration has moved to restrict the number of immigrants coming into the U.S. on work visas, which worries big tech and consulting firms that use the H-1B visa program to fill technical and specialized jobs. Canada's government is seizing the moment to provide an option for engineers, executives and other tech talent who may no longer qualify for an H-1B visa or who simply don't feel comfortable staying in the U.S. Open for business: Navdeep Bains, Canada's Minister of Innovation, told Axios that Canada wants to be open to ideas, open to trade, and "more importantly, we want to be open to people" in order for companies to grow. Bains stopped short of framing the program as a way to poach talent from Silicon Valley, instead saying that the government is "open to whatever region has talent."
That there really isn't that great an influx of useable and creative (key word creative) talent on these programs, but that it merely gets used to bring in cheap, lower quality labor to help drive down the prevailing wage.
You guys have fun with that.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
We've been having fun with it for decades and decades. The key is to be welcome to them, embrace their culture and contributions, and they turn into great Canadians of their own volition.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Why? The job climate in Canada isn't that great so why would they need to bring in workers if the whole "retrain workers" works??? So many under lying issues that this story doesn't want to touch so they write a piece to bash the US.
"immigration tends to create more jobs than are taken."
Yes, but that doesn't benefit the residents of the country receiving immigrants.
There are more jobs because immigrants suppress wages. It's supply and demand. If you have people who are willing to supply their labor at a lower price, demand for labor increases. But the rest of us laborers are stuck on the same supply curve as the immigrants.
We'd enforce our immigration laws strictly and kick out illegal immigrants, instead of harboring 10-20 million illegals and dreaming up new ways to let them stay.
We'd give strong preference to immigrants and workers with high skills, instead of having a race- and family based immigration system.
We'd cut the Medicare/Medicaid budget in half, or alternatively, cover all Americans on the current Medicare/Medicaid budget.
How about it?
when it comes to integrating pieces of shit that don't want to integrate, are less intelligent than average, and have a higher propensity for committing violent crimes.
I don't think Canada's looking to import US white trash. We're waaaay over our quota on those.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
hey bud, along the toronto-waterloo corridor there are three world class universities that teach a multitude of engineering subjects. We teach plenty of engineering and our engineers ARE having a hard time finding work. I am a recent graduate of university in Canada and many of my fellow students are having trouble finding work.
The problem is that Canada is refusing to learn from the united states and hoe the H1B visa's were used to drive wages down. It has already been happening and will continue to degrade even furthur.
Our largest problem up here is that our leader may be more socially adept in the eyes of the general public but yours is more intelligent. Ours cant even follow through on one of his main campaign promises (changing our electoral system)
Point out anything negative about 3rd world immigrants and your average liberal will magically transform into Aids Skrillex right before your eyes and shriek, "You're a f*cking white male!"
This literally applies to over half the comments on here so far...