{"id":597,"date":"2016-09-13T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T06:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-09-13T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T07:00:56","slug":"www-immigrationwatchcanada-org-advice-to-mccallum-its-time-to-go-back-to-school-our-advice-to-immigration-minister-mccallum-its-time-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadafirst.nfshost.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Advice to McCallum : It\u2019s Time to Go Back To School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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OUR ADVICE TO IMMIGRATION MINISTER MCCALLUM : IT\u2019S TIME TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND STAY AWAY FROM THE IMMIGRATION LOBBY<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Immigration Minister John McCallum\u2019s has been musing that he will increase Canada\u2019s immigration intake well above 300,000 for 2017. The two reasons he gives are clearly not evidence-based and should be thrown into the nearest recycling bin.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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REASON A : He says Canada needs immigrants because it has an aging population. He does not seem to know that the Mulroney government asked Canada\u2019s Department of Health and Welfare to study this issue. It was to determine whether Canada should use immigration to solve problems that might arise because of Canada\u2019s aging population (particularly a drain on Canada\u2019s finances). Health and Welfare Department\u2019s long study around 1990\u00a0 concluded that Canada would be better off\u00a0 to use its own population (particularly its females who were not in the workforce and its unemployed older males) to solve such issues. Doing this would stabilize the number of people that each worker supported at 1.9 (Canada\u2019s Dependency Ratio). Increasing immigration to as high as 600,000 per year would have little effect on reducing the percentage of older people in Canada\u2019s population.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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McCallum also does not seem to know that a CD Howe Institute study in 2006 on the same issue concluded that \u201c\u2026 no conceivable amount of immigration, with an age profile such as Canada currently experiences, can significantly affect the coming shift in the ratio of older to working age Canadians.\u201d It predicted that Canada\u2019s percentage of older Canadians (now around 17%) would rise to 46% of the population by 2050. It looked at three strategies : (1) reducing the percentage of older people through high immigration (2) stabilizing the percentage of older people so that a much smaller percentage of Canada\u2019s population would be 65+ in 2050. One of the very negative results of using high immigration would be that Canada\u2019s population would rise to 169 million by 2050 and its yearly intake would be 7 million !!! Such consequences would clearly negate any benefits.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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The third strategy it proposed was to increase Canada\u2019s retirement age to 70. This technique did not use immigration to achieve its end, and would be superior to the other two strategies. By 2050, the maximum percentage of aged Canadians potentially dependent on government programmes would be about 33%, not 50%. Researchers pointed out that simultaneous policies aimed at encouraging work and saving were also important. Saving, in particular, would decrease reliance on public coffers. The Harper government did suggest raising the retirement age. This proposal has to be re-visited<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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REASON B : McCallum is also saying that Canada has a labour shortage and that Canada needs much higher immigration. He claims to have consulted with about 35 groups across the country. Recently, in Alberta where about 100,000 people have lost their jobs in the past two years because of the downturn in Alberta\u2019s oil industry, he stated that Albertans were telling him that Alberta needed more immigrants. The question that most Albertans are asking is this : Who is McCallum listening to? Other Canadians are asking the same thing.\u00a0 It seems that the only people he is talking to are members of the immigration lobby (lawyers, consultants, advocates and ethnic groups like the Sikhs, Muslims and Chinese). In fact, he has been proposing that Canada accept many more Chinese students and workers. To accomplish that, he wants to dramatically increase the number of Canada\u2019s visa-granting centres in China. Anyone who has seen what unnecessary immigration has done to Canada in the past 25 years must be cringing or\u00a0 saying that they would prefer an Ebola epidemic.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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And they are not the only ones !!! Two of Canada\u2019s big banks (Toronto Dominion and the Bank of Montreal) did their own studies three years ago on whether Canada had a labour shortage. Both concluded that it did not. The point is that the banks are precisely the ones we would expect to be cheer-leading higher immigration. But the TD Bank stated \u201cWith data in hand, we debunk the notion that Canada is facing an imminent skills crisis.\u201d\u00a0 Overall, both said that whatever skill shortages existed, were isolated and likely no greater than existed a decade ago. In addition, the Parliamentary Budget Officer in 2014 reported that there was little evidence to suggest that a labour shortage exists.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Clearly, Canada\u2019s Immigration Minister John McCallum has not done his homework and he has no evidence to support his proposal to greatly increase Canada\u2019s immigration intake. Our advice : Raising immigration intake to 300,000 for 2016 was already a bad mistake. Don\u2019t make another.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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