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Citizenship and Immigration committee Could I just add something? I think it is important that the federal government have a role there. I think one of the issues that need to be addressed is getting pre-clearance on credentials before people come here so there isn't the problem that many people have of being admitt
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee I think the problem is that the types of industries you're talking about, where you bring in a large number of people and generally from similar places, are not the industries of the future. These are usually the industries of the past and are having trouble attracting labour.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee All work contributes to the GDP of our country. The question is, which type of work contributes the most?
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee Given that the current level seems to be too high, judging from the performance of the immigrants, raising it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. If you raise the limit, given the bureaucratic approach we have to immigration policy, what it means is that we will bring in more im
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee You won't know whether it's a wise policy or not until 2015 or 2020, when you see how the immigrants have done.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee Given that they've abandoned the long-form census, you're not even going to have the information now.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee That's right.
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee I do have a comment. If the problem is in five years, you're not talking about the demographic impact. What you're talking about now is that the labour force will stop growing in five years. That doesn't mean you need to take in more immigrants now; that just exacerbates the prob
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee The problem in immigration is that the performance of immigrants has deteriorated over time, and this reflects the performance of both family class and economic immigrants, not to mention refugees. The government has been trying to deal with the whole issue of selecting the best
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee One more minute? Okay, I won't get into this.... Herb and I did an estimate of the cost of immigration. If you apply our number to this backlog you get a cost of $6 billion a year, if you allow all these people in. Also, you can calculate, based on the Statistics Canada data, th
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady
Citizenship and Immigration committee Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. It's an honour to be here today and to be able to talk to you about immigration issues. The backlog is an important issue, but it's not the main important issue. It's really a symptom of an immigration policy in Canada that wasn't working and was
October 25th, 2011Committee meeting
Patrick Grady