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Re: 'Not Only Do They NOT Have Healtcare'
Posted by **backbeat** on Aug 14, 2013 at 7:23:40 PM:
In Reply to: Re: 'Not Only Do They NOT Have Healtcare' posted by **pycb** on Aug 14, 2013 at 6:59:53 PM:
*ok - so as usual you really have nothing so instead you elect to try the smoke & mirrors bit - that really gets old
it's not smoke and mirrors - in fact what your wife's employer is doing is smoke and temporary mirrors - they're having a tantrum - they will get over it or their business will falter - having healthcare actually ends up winning business - we've seen it here in the auto trade and other sectors
How Canada is winning the race in recruiting skilled immigrants while the U.S. lags behind
When a recruiter called last year about a position as a mechanic in British Columbia, Paul Thomas said he could hardly believe it.
Thomas’s annual income had dropped to US$40,000 a year from US$100,000 as business slowed at the Atlanta auto dealership where he worked. He’d filed for bankruptcy, his house was in foreclosure and other jobs were hard to find even with his resume posted online. Starting a new life in Canada sounded appealing.
The recruiter sent Thomas an e-mail loaded with video links describing the company, the owner’s charity projects and the city of Prince George, dubbed the “Northern Capital” of British Columbia. “My wife and I were excited,” Thomas, 45, said. “Auto mechanics don’t get approached by recruiters, so it was sort of nice being catered to.”
The dealership, specializing in heavy-duty trucks, paid for him to visit the area. He was hired last March under a skilled worker program and in a month had a work permit. With a contract paying up to $100,000 a year and government-provided health care, a job in Canada was like “I scratched a lottery ticket,” he said.
Canadian governments, at both the national and provincial levels, are courting skilled workers such as plumbers, pipefitters, electricians and others from the U.S. and elsewhere. In addition to the program under which Thomas was hired, a category for specific trades began in January to address labour shortages while easing the path to residency, the federal government said. That program is forecast to admit up to 3,000 applicants in its first year.
‘Global Competition’
“It is a global competition and Canada’s design will lead to success perhaps at the expense of other countries like the U.S.,” said Richard Kurland, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer and policy analyst for large companies. “Canada creates a separate fast track to lure quickly desired occupations.” In 2012, Canada granted more than 38,000 skilled workers permanent residency under already existing programs.
The country is trying “to build a fast and flexible immigration system that is responsive to the needs of Canada’s economy,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said in a press release Jan. 2. Employers “have long been asking for ways to get the skilled tradespeople they need to meet demands in many industries across the country.”Followup Messages:
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