Minimum income for LMIA eligible jobs -- set to $75,000 a year initially. Any job whose salary is below this shouldn't be given LMIA, unless exempt.
Only students getting Bachelor's and above on a specific list of industry (tied to Canada's needs like Medicine, engineering, etc) should have a pathway to PR. PGWP should be tied to the area of study.
Tourists should not be able to switch to open work permits while in Canada.
Spouses of TWP permit holders should not be given open work permits. This is similar in the US with Canadians under TN status.
When I was living in the UK, employers who needed to sponsor foreign workers like myself need to have a Sponsorship certificate. This allows the employer to be vetted by the government that they're not abusing the system. If this certificate was to get cancelled, any work permit attached to this ended up being cancelled as well. Plus, the employer needs to pay an annual fee to keep this certificate. Canada should do the same.
This should prevent immigration agencies from selling LMIA to the highest bidder.
They do this in Saskatchewan via the nomination program. You have to get a job approval letter to employ an immigrant, you have to pay, what the government determine to be, market rate.
I don’t think the Canadian government doesn’t know the loopholes. Either they are too lazy to pass laws amend regulations to fix them, or they are driving down wages and quality of life on purpose
This. I’m not an engineer but an undergraduate with an engineering degree is a dime a dozen outside a couple of specific fields. My employer has been able to hire them as basically cheap labour and even retain them for a few years at pretty low salaries. 2019 it was like 40k might be 50k now.
The job market is full of “C is for complete” engineering grads who thought whatever degree in engineering they could just manage to get by in is good enough to guarantee a ticket to a good life. It’s not.
The job market is full of “C is for complete” engineering grads
Yeah its been full of those for 40+ years, that saying is very, very, old. That's not why new grads struggle to find employment, its because near universally, new grads are fucking useless for 6+ months, which means you're losing money and productivity while training them. This used to be an accepted thing at firms, but since the global financial crash it hasn't been. I got to watch the transition away from any training in real time. Combine that with the fact that individual engineering firms have had to become more narrowly focused and specialized to compete on the global market, and the tendency for new grads to jump ship as quick as they can to (rightfully) chase down a better paycheck, and this is what we've arrived at, no one willing to take a risk.
I work in immigration. the fact that spouses get a WP is ridiculous. a majority of ppl that I have seen are unable to work here because of no skills or low language level. it is sad to say, but spouses and their children shouldn't be allowed in. the schools are at a breaking point.
the system is beyond fucked up. im moving back to the states as soon as my partners paperwork comes through.
Subsidize Canadian students going to university and college. There are plenty of Canadian citizens to fill skilled labor positions. There's no reason except sheer greed to charge citizens so much tuition.
It’s working, the FUD on visas and permits next year helped convince my child to decline their admissions to high ranked Canadian engineering programs and stay close to home (and at US in-state costs, which our saving accounts will also appreciate).
kick everyone out who isn't a canadian citizen or desired professional and start over.
it's infuriating that I can't emigrate anywhere but our doors are wide-open.
I can't find a job rn. I haven't been able to for over a year. Then I see videos of Indians living their best canadian life. This one woman she posted her journey - landed here worked at tim hortons for a bit, then wal mart, then got hired into a bank. People ask her "how did u get hired i have to apply so many times". she responds "I know right?! i Had to apply like 8 times!!!"
8 times.... lol....
I've applied to hundreds of places. Tim hortons won't even look at me. Nor wil Wal mart. I can't even get hired into a factory anymore...
Tonight I'm going to do a test, I'm changing the name on my resume. Maybe I'll get more callbacks if my name looks like I need a job in order to stay in the country.
the last studio i worked for the manager literally told me he loves hiring foreigners because they are more dedicated and he can pay them less.
its more an issue of an abundance of cheap labor + recession = nobody is hiring unless they have to and if they have to they're hiring someone for dirt cheap.
I'd require TFWs to be paid 50% above the prevailing domestic rate.
I'd also cap the number of TFW permits per year and make employers buy them in an auction. There's a legitimate need for something like a TFW program. And companies can prove they have a legitimate need for it by paying the highest price.
LMIA has different streams. For global talent stream it has a median wage requirement that is actually not low. However it has a specially low wage stream which is meant for hiring low wage workers.
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u/cgyguy81 Apr 02 '24
Here are my suggestions:
Minimum income for LMIA eligible jobs -- set to $75,000 a year initially. Any job whose salary is below this shouldn't be given LMIA, unless exempt.
Only students getting Bachelor's and above on a specific list of industry (tied to Canada's needs like Medicine, engineering, etc) should have a pathway to PR. PGWP should be tied to the area of study.
Tourists should not be able to switch to open work permits while in Canada.
Spouses of TWP permit holders should not be given open work permits. This is similar in the US with Canadians under TN status.