There is a worker shortage in Canada in every province that we are witnessing and reading about in the reports. If that shortage has to be addressed there's only one way. The immigration system has to be polarized or made in a better way so that every application is treated equally without prejudice about the point of origin of that application.
I work very closely with the provincial nominee programs. Once an employer here nominates a person to be in Canada and join their workplace, the responsibilities lie with the federal government to issue them the work permit.
However, if you see the reports and data of different VACs around the world, there is a huge difference in the refusal rate of different countries. As I mentioned, the New Delhi office in India has a refusal rate of 66% compared to Australia at only 17% refusal. Therefore, a person who's applying from India may have hurdles that Australians would not have.
This is impacting the economy back here because employers won't have their people from India. Now they have to pick and choose where they should be getting their employees from.