{"id":386,"date":"2016-03-14T02:54:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-03-14T02:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:54:48","slug":"386","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Rising Unemployment & Soaring Immigration: What’s Wrong With This Picture?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rising Unemployment & Soaring Immigration: What’s Wrong With This Picture?<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Canada First Immigration Reform Committee<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/div>\n
Box 332,<\/strong>
\nRexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3<\/strong>
\nPh: 905-566-4455; FAX: 905-566-4820<\/strong>
\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com<\/strong><\/a>
\nPaul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
\"Inline<\/div>\n
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March 12, 2016<\/span><\/span>The Editor,
\nThe Globe and Mail<\/span><\/strong>,
\n444 Front Street, West,
\nToronto, ON.Dear Sir:<\/p>\n

Your article\u00a0“Canada’s jobless rate\u00a0\u00a0rose in February, reaching its highest level in three years” (The\u00a0Globe and Mail<\/span>\u00a0March 12, 2016) calls into question the self-congratulatory tone of the announcement last week that Canada is upping\u00a0this year\u2019s immigration to 305,000.
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\nYou reported: “The country missed expectations for employment gains and lost 2,300 jobs with a steep decline in full-time positions. The unemployment rate edged up … to 7.3 per cent in February \u2026 Across the country full-time employment fell by 52,000, while part-time jobs rose by 49,500. … The unemployment rate in [Alberta] jumped to 7.9 per cent.”
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\nJust what is this flood of newcomers, even if they have language and work skills —\u00a0\u00a0and many in the family re-unification class do not \u2013 going to do?
\n<\/strong>
\nTwo possibilities: an immigrant gets a job or does not get a job. If he gets a job,\u00a0\u00a0good for him but bad for a Canadian who remains unemployed. Canada loses. If he doesn\u2019t get a job, that\u2019s bad for him and bad for Canada as, being a compassionate society, he has to be housed and supported. Canada loses again.
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\nIn times of high unemployment, Canada needs a moratorium on immigration, not an increase. It\u2019s time for some compassion for our own unemployed and for recent graduates struggling to find a job for which they\u2019ve studied and trained.
\n<\/strong>
\nPaul Fromm<\/strong>
\nDirector<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rising Unemployment & Soaring Immigration: What’s Wrong With This Picture? \u00a0 \u00a0 Canada First Immigration Reform Committee Box 332, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 5L3 Ph: 905-566-4455; FAX: 905-566-4820 Website:\u00a0http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com Paul Fromm, B.Ed, M.A. Director \u00a0 March 12, 2016The Editor, The Globe and Mail, 444 Front Street, West, Toronto, ON.Dear Sir: Your article\u00a0“Canada’s jobless rate\u00a0\u00a0rose in February, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,250,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}