WTF? You have to be a citizen to work for the government. How can a 6-month immigrant get a job like that??

Actually you don't have to be to work in all parts of the government. In fact a number of police services in our major cities don't even require their officers to be Citizens. Imagine that, you law enforcement is being handled by foreigners! I have no problem with foreigners, but allowing them to enforce laws of a country they are not citizens of just seems kind of whacked!

What gets me more about this is assuring the persons reliability. All you have for background checks is 6 months you can confirm and the rest hinges on the fact he provided a police good conduct certificate from India which, without going into detail, I know are pretty bogus in a number of ways and not totally reliable.

All these excuses for unfettered immigration make no sense.

We have hundreds of thousands coming in, no extra hospitals, no extra jobs.

We should scale back and accept those that can look after themselves and don't burden our infrastructure further. Either that or buils up the infrastructure to accomodate the newcomers.

This and all the bogus refugee claims do my head in.

Put it this way, I'm not betting on a few more million East Indians and Chinese making my pension fatter.

Maybe there aren't many great jobs in your neck of the woods, but I bet I could visit the Service Canada website and find jobs in any city in the country. The problem is that most are unskilled and don't pay all that great (if you're lucky maybe $30,000 a year).

http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/intro_eng.aspx

Those unskilled jobs are the ones most immigrants wind up with, usually because the immigration officer overseas didn't bother to tell them that their qualifications and experience wouldn't mean jackshit once they set foot in Canada. So they wind up working at 7/11s and/or driving taxi and/or working in a restaurant.

And you can bet that each and everyone of those poor saps is paying towards your CPP by deductions from their paychecks, not to mention paying taxes. They also stimulate the economy by renting apratments/buying homes (and all the stuff that goes inside one), as well as vehicles, clothing, food, etc. Immigration not only helps grow our population, it grows our economy.

I do agree we need to build more infrastructure to accommodate both Canadians and immigrants, but that's a whole other discussion.

Which foreigners are we talking about here Benn? And which police services?

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Those unskilled jobs are the ones most immigrants wind up with, usually because the immigration officer overseas didn't bother to tell them that their qualifications and experience wouldn't mean jackshit once they set foot in Canada. So they wind up working at 7/11s and/or driving taxi and/or working in a restaurant.

And you can bet that each and everyone of those poor saps is paying towards your CPP by deductions from their paychecks, not to mention paying taxes. They also stimulate the economy by renting apratments/buying homes (and all the stuff that goes inside one), as well as vehicles, clothing, food, etc. Immigration not only helps grow our population, it grows our economy.

I do agree we need to build more infrastructure to accommodate both Canadians and immigrants, but that's a whole other discussion.

Actually I worked for immigration overseas and at least at our office we were telling them their credentials might not get carried over. However they still got points for them. Plus most would still prefer to take the chance and immigrate rather than stay where they are.

Hey, we shit-eaters make good cops!

i blame the liberals.

It is not up to the Embassy to tell that to the immigrant. It is for them to do their homework (if I could, why can't someone else? I knew exactly where to turn to to get credentials checked and validated, AND who to pay to write an exam), ot their immigration consultant to tell them.
The Embassy (or government) gives most points to highest educated. That they end up in a taxi because they are either too stupid or too lazy to find out what to do, or to find out they cannot work as a doctor with their Pakistani diploma, is their own fault.
You should find out that stuff BEFORE you apply, not when you are miserable because you cannot work in your field.
A Dutch educated engineer is not allowed to call himself engineer. Until he works in his field for a year, and he can write the required exam. It is what it is. You don't HAVE to come here.