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4 out of 5 – Immigrants as a percentage of Canada’s ‘workforce growth’ over the past five years

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Immigration is often a point of contention in many countries, and Taiwan is no exception. Issues such as the medical and health care of migrant workers and the education rights of their children have caused several waves of discussion.

According to the 2019 World Value Survey, a cross-border survey, 76.3% of Taiwanese people believe that the number of foreigners who come to Taiwan should have “a strict upper limit” to- ─On the other hand, only 17.8% of people think that “if there is a job for them, let them do it”. Few people support the other two options, “total ban” and “total opening”.

But in Canada, instead of strictly limiting the cap, the government has set new targets to attract more immigrants. Why is this so?


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Canada’s Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said bluntly: “Everyone, this is very simple to me: Canada needs more people.” Especially after the epidemic, there are already millions of vacancies to be filled, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Trudeau even directly linked “attracting more immigrants” to “fighting the economy”.

Canada welcomes immigrants to contribute to the economy, not a post-pandemic phenomenon. According to statistics released by the Canadian government recently, Canada has had 1.3 million immigrants from 2016 to 2021, many of them in the labor force; under the challenges of low fertility and aging population in Canada, Canada’s labor force growth in the past five years , up to four-fifths are contributed by immigrants.

Behind such staggering numbers is Canada’s special immigration system. In the past five years, 57.5% of Canada’s 1.3 million immigrants are so-called economic immigrants; the Canadian government’s screening of economic immigrants is based on the points system, which is based on skills, education, work experience, Language proficiency and other criteria are used to assess the possible contribution of immigrants to the Canadian economy. Such a system has caused New Zealand, Australia and other countries to follow suit.

In Canada, even theConservative Party supports immigrants coming to contribute to the economy, but criticizes the bureaucracy for being too slow in accepting immigrants; as for the general public’s attitude towards foreigners, according to the same “World Values ​​Questionnaire”, more than half (51.6%) Only 35.7% of people think that “if there is work for them, let them do it”, and only 35.7% think that strict restrictions are needed, which is half of Taiwan’s.

Immigration is of course a complex issue, involving many different dimensions: humanitarianism, resource allocation, cultural differences, etc. There are also criticisms that Canada’s immigration policy focuses on “economics” and may favor immigrants from higher class backgrounds – but it is worth mentioning that Canada is actually a big country for accepting refugees , not “only” concerned with the economy.

When discussing immigration issues in the future, you may wish to include the economic contribution of immigration (and the policies for assessing immigration contribution) into the discussion! (Finish)


About the author | Xie Dawen (PhD candidate of the Institute of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, likes complex history, clean data, and beautiful people.)


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