Canada Immigration Law Changed, Skilled Worker List Reduces to 29

Re:Canada Immigration Law Changed, Skilled Worker List Reduc... by sunir on Saturday July 10, 2010 @10:37AM (#1503689)

The analysis on HN is way off. The Skilled Worker program brings in skilled people without jobs lined up in the expectation they will find a job once they get here.

Computer related industries must not be hiring, or at least not hiring immigrants. Because having thousands of unemployed skilled workers in Canada is not the goal of the program, they delisted it as a category.

By the way, it's possible this happened because people don't want to hire immigrants despite competent developers being in high demand in Toronto. Here's a blog post I wrote about that a long time ago:

http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2007/07/23/immigrant-quebecoi...

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Re:Canada Immigration Law Changed, Skilled Worker List Reduc... by jacabado on Saturday July 10, 2010 @02:52PM (#1504141)

I am thinking in going to Toronto to work in web development(C#, javascript with 2 years of experience). One of the reasons was because I see Toronto as a sophisticated city.

I'm portuguese, would I have a problem with my nationality/origin/accent?

I was not worried at all with this until I read your blog post.

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Re:Canada Immigration Law Changed, Skilled Worker List Reduc... by whiskeyjack on Saturday July 10, 2010 @05:24PM (#1504377)

Lots of portuguese as well as many many other nationalities here. We even have a little portugal. You'd be fine here.

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Re:Canada Immigration Law Changed, Skilled Worker List Reduc... by jacabado on Sunday July 11, 2010 @08:32AM (#1505392)

Thanks for your replies!

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Re:Canada Immigration Law Changed, Skilled Worker List Reduc... by huhtenberg on Saturday July 10, 2010 @03:16PM (#1504182)

> would I have a problem with my nationality/origin/accent?

No, you will not have a problem.

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