Can I say something? With your permission, I'm saying that I faced the interview in the Canadian consulate office in Detroit, Michigan, in 2001. During the interview, the lady who did the interview, who inspired me very much, asked me to enter Canada right now, because my background is agriculture. I did my Ph.D. in England and went back to my country because I had a job. I was a senior scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Ministry of Science and Technology. I worked there for 22 years.
I applied for immigration through the proper channels. They asked me to do an interview. I did the interview, but they did not give me the right information. They said to me, you have a lot of opportunities in Canada. Right now you can enter. But I refused. I went back to my country. I took my time and then I came.
When I came, I found the scenario was totally different. I worked here at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada as a volunteer for three years and seven months. On my own discipline, I have done 10,000 samples for them, but I left that one on January 31 of this year because there is no hope to get a job.
How can I survive? I have two kids and my wife. My wife also did one year of voluntary work at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Both of us did higher studies in the U.K. Now we are fighting for our lives, doing very non-professional jobs in restaurants, to survive here.