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24号出的,大家可以参考下。 Time to rethink the immigration point system Robert Vineberg, Special to the SunPublished: Monday, November 24, 2008Canada should revamp its immigrant selection system to do what it was designed to do in 1967: Select immigrants who will make the greatest contribution to Canada. Canada was the first country in the world to develop a selection system based on points. The original points system, introduced in 1967, was linked closely to labour market demand and an immigrant's potential to meet that demand. The system worked not only because it was simple, but also because the number of people around the world applying at the time roughly equalled Canada's ability to process cases. Nadia Pelton works with immigrants to help reduce their accents.Lorraine Hjalte, Canwest News ServiceThe system was a success because it selected the immigrants Canada needed and because a point could be awarded for every year of formal education (to a maximum of 20). And it was not just PhDs, but also apprenticed tradesmen, who got credit for their training. As the number of applications started to outstrip the capacity to process them, the points system and the pass mark were adjusted in an attempt to control volume. By 1986, education was only accorded a maximum of 12 points and those in the skilled trades could no longer receive points for their years of apprenticeship, whereas PhDs could still get sufficient points to pass from other factors. However, successive immigration acts provided that every application received had to be assessed. Therefore, the number of applications continued to outstrip Canada's processing capacity. By 2008, Citizenship and Immigration Canada faced a backlog of more than 600,000 cases and the capacity to process about 200,000 per year. Furthermore, valuable resources were being used to manage the backlog, respond to complaints about the backlog and refuse cases that ought never to have been considered for processing in the first place. So, without any other tool to say "no" other than the points system (and occasional refusals on the grounds of criminality, security or health), the points system became a barbed-wire fence.Applicants who could not cross it by themselves hired lawyers and consultants to vault them over the fence, dig tunnels under it or cut the wire to get them through. This is not the way the selection system started, but this is what it has become in practice. In addition, the system has become so litigious that, incredibly, two-thirds of the case work of the Federal Court is related to immigration and refugees. The latest selection system, introduced in 2002, is heavily weighted toward formal education and thorough knowledge of one of our official languages. Without scoring highly in these areas, it is hard to pass the test. As a result, the points system excludes many people we need in Canada because it is designed to limit those who pass rather than select those we need. However, Canada's immigration program no longer needs the points system to be a gatekeeper. Thanks to the new legislation, the points system no longer has to do double duty as a deterrent. The minister can now set annual limits and this frees immigration officers to choose the immigrants Canada needs. However, to do so, immigration officers need a new tool. The current points system still creates too many roadblocks for the workers and their families we want to attract. The points system needs to be freed to do its real job -- choose people whose skills Canada needs and who will contribute to making Canada a better place. It needs to be redesigned so that the workers we need, such as apprenticed trades, will not be rejected. These changes are particularly important for Western Canada, given the acute labour shortages that have been bedevilling the four western provinces. Notwithstanding the current economic slowdown, these shortages are likely to become chronic unless aggressive steps are taken so that Canada's immigration program can be used effectively to help alleviate these pressures. Canada was the world leader in immigrant selection innovation in the 1960s and 1970s but it lost its position due to the lack of means, other than the points system, to control the numbers of people applying to come to Canada. The new amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act give Canada the opportunity to reassume its leading role in immigrant selection by adopting a points system to meet today's needs and, in doing so, bring here the skilled immigrants Canada needs in the 21st century. Robert Vineberg is a senior fellow at the Canada West Foundation in Calgary.

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回复: 温哥华太阳报一篇关于移民政策的文章需要学习,最好热心人重点译成中文。谢谢啦,先!

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回复: 温哥华太阳报一篇关于移民政策的文章是不是职业更重要了?

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回复: 温哥华太阳报一篇关于移民政策的文章主要是说加国本来在移民的问题上居世界领先, 但是随着出台的移民政策,使得越来越多的加国市场真正需要的人/家庭被排除在外,另一方面加国西部的省份劳动力市场缺乏劳动力,所以,以后符合加国市场需要的职业的申请人会成功得到签证, 即使是文凭不高,也不会拒签的。所以,职业真的更重要了。

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回复: 温哥华太阳报一篇关于移民政策的文章这篇文章虽然是说要重新思考加拿大移民评分体系,但并没有太多超出新政的内容,但文章发出的一个信息是以后将会把重点放到加拿大劳动力市场需要的申请者上。但这种改变难度可想而知。从短期来看目前的政策应该不会变化,评分体系虽然有缺点,却能保证移民的基本质量,但也仅此而已。

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回复: 温哥华太阳报一篇关于移民政策的文章从长远来看,以后也许会有两个门槛,第一是分数线比如目前的67分,第二是职业,或加上其他条件,如果两个门槛都能达到,那申请时间会缩短到1到两年。但这种设想说来容易。否则加国政客就不会为移民问题争来争去。现在是等待的人着急,加国的雇主也着急,等不来合适的人手啊。看看加国的就业报告,有的行业如生物科技类,现在雇员缺口是30%以上。雇员短缺成了仅次于融资难的第二大问题。

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回复: 温哥华太阳报一篇关于移民政策的文章从长远来看,以后也许会有两个门槛,第一是分数线比如目前的67分,第二是职业,或加上其他条件,如果两个门槛都能达到,那申请时间会缩短到1到两年。但这种设想说来容易。否则加国政客就不会为移民问题争来争去。现在是等待的人着急,加国的雇主也着急,等不来合适的人手啊。看看加国的就业报告,有的行业如生物科技类,现在雇员缺口是30%以上。雇员短缺成了仅次于融资难的第二大问题。点击展开...楼上的我感觉你对加拿大社会经济状况了解得挺多,也是打算移民吗?

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