Re:Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Lo...
by dleslie on Monday February 06, 2017 @05:35PM
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> I'm guessing there was a flood of cons to Canada at some point that made them skittish and enshrine a bunch of hoops in legislation.
Not really; it's more of an outcome of political balance. Our conservatives have historically been ornery about immigration, but our progressives made it a focus of their policy. (This is very untrue now, few outright oppose immigration, but historically shaped the dialogue). To accommodate the disagreement we somehow came to a skills-oriented system with a high-threshold for ability and other qualities.
We have/had our own problem with authoritarians, and it's shaped our policies in some particularly Canadian ways.
Not really; it's more of an outcome of political balance. Our conservatives have historically been ornery about immigration, but our progressives made it a focus of their policy. (This is very untrue now, few outright oppose immigration, but historically shaped the dialogue). To accommodate the disagreement we somehow came to a skills-oriented system with a high-threshold for ability and other qualities.
We have/had our own problem with authoritarians, and it's shaped our policies in some particularly Canadian ways.