In connection with the temporary foreign workers program, one of the problems with the point system is that it does not really give many points to people who don't have a degree and cannot speak fluent English. As a result, many of the employers have to go through the temporary foreign worker route.
It wasn't always like that, by the way. In the early 1990s and all through the 1980s there were A, B, C, and D categories, and people were coming in all categories. Now it's mostly stacked on the A and B categories, the people with degrees.
Until we actually fix the point system so that we can have all skill sets and not just those with degrees, whether it's construction workers or farm workers we need to be working here, we will forever have temporary foreign workers coming in and then having to leave, and some deciding not to leave and filing for refugee status and clogging up the entire system. It's not going to work very well.
I know we're not really talking about a point system, but it's hard not to talk about a point system. Do any of you have any recommendations on that front?