FD Expert - by Steve Abouem
A lot, good or bad has been said about the immigrant in Quebec and Canada. This topic might be quite familiar to many of you, immigrants or non-immigrants, but many are not, given the incredible amount of information one must mentally ingest to be on the right place with today’s world.
For the sake of clarity, let’s define what is considered an immigrant, in this case. This category regroups all people born outside of the country, or their relatives who obtained through them their permanent residency on the Canadian territory.
Simply said, an immigrant is an individual who came to Canada either for work, studies, familial, economic or political reasons, and who obtained after the proper process his residency.
More and more immigrants in Canada are graduates from universities inside or outside the country -more than a third according to Statistics Canada-, or are investors and earned the residency in the Economic category.
Although it gives them a potential advantage on the average population, they still don’t get the opportunities in adequacy with their competences. This situation is surprising given the openness of the governmental policy regarding work and immigration. Of course, discrimination is an important factor, but not the only one.
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Misinformation is also part of the problem, since immigrants are not always aware of all the opportunities they have in Canada. This may be either due to them not looking for the information or to that information being hard to find, since the immigrants, just as the local citizens are not always referred to the proper office for guidance.
As far as work itself is concerned, immigration is not doing as well as it used to do, especially in the 70’s or early and mid 80’s. One reason for this is the 30% increase in the end of the 90’s*. It takes indeed some time for an immigrant to settle, get the right job, and acquire the right experience and property.
Therefore the more immigrants are coming in the same time window, the lesser the global immigrant performance is going to be. The average salary for a Canadian immigrant was 10k$ less than the average Canadian as shown more accurately in the table below.
This diminution is also perceivable in the property rate in the immigrant population, which has also decreased with time. The immigrant’s situation in Canada is rather good compared to the U.S. for instance, because of his high level of education.
However, the decreases in salary and ownership have the same sources: the increase of the immigration, the decrease of the average working conditions for the immigrant population and the increase in the welfare of local citizens. Overall, the gap between salaries isn’t so huge, and can be closed.
The situation, however has a different impact for student immigrants, since the investment required for their studies, before acquiring the residency is at a minimum of 55 000$ to much more.
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