David Cohen’s Blog: What’s Wrong with This Picture?

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CIC News
Published: March 1, 2007

Consider these facts:

- For the fourth consecutive year, the Canadian economy is strong and vibrant.

- In many regions of Canada there are more jobs that pay well than there are people to work at them.
They say that "a rising tide carries all the ships" but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The reality is that Canada has well-paying jobs that go begging and eager economic immigrants, whose skills are being underutilized. Statistics show that it's taking longer for new economic immigrants to share in Canada's prosperity than it did for economic immigrants, who came to Canada 30 or 40 years ago.

Why should that be?

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