| ID: |
HARP-255 |
| Title: |
Right skills, wrong country |
| Source: |
Canadian Business, June 26, 2000, COVER STORY; Pg. 35 |
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| Year: |
2000 |
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| Keywords: |
Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, equality before the law, equity, human rights, Ontario, civil and political rights, immigration, education, minority rights |
| Abstract: |
Of the 174,000 people who immigrated to Canada in 1998, 81,000 were skilled workers; of those, 72% had university degrees (compared with just 13% of all Canadians). In Ontario — the destination of choice for more than half the immigrants who come to Canada each year — the unemployment rate for foreign-trained professionals is more than three times the provincial average; only 24% have jobs in their exact professions. Nobody knows for sure just how many highly skilled people each year suffer the humiliation of working in menial jobs just so they can feed their families. And it’s not even because their qualifications are worthless; they’re simply not understood. |
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False |
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Keywords: Canada, civil and political rights, cultural rights, economic, education, employment, equality before the law, equity, human rights, immigration, minority rights, Ontario, social
